and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

Quick like a bunny because I'm busy today, but here it goes.

Firstly, MMORPGs - that's Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Games - are on fire. Sure, I've mentioned them before (More GDP than a small third world country, people literally making careers out of selling "virtual" swords, and people loosing their lives - wife, job, kids - out of gaming addiction) but jeeeeesus are they on the rise:

This is an interesting, albeit pro-MMORPGs, article with some interesting facts for those less initiated folks like me. It is perhaps a bit overzealous in it's futurist soothsaying but heck, H.G. Wells was ahead of his time, too:

The joy of experiencing life as Awesome You, as the stronger, handsomer avatar of yourself, will take all of those activities to another plane of cool. The casinos will be there, the movies will play there, concerts will be performed there. The metaverse will stop being a playhouse and will start becoming the interface through which we interact with reality. And every step you take will be as Awesome You. Cool, beautiful, confident.

Nothing invented yet has had such universal appeal.

You will find yourself momentarily forgetting whether you're in the real or virtual world.

Me? I kind of like being pathetic and ineffectual here in meatspace. I guess I won't be crossing over anytime soon.

Secondly, everyone is stumbling around these days prophesizing the open source movement as if there is a question mark involved. Well if this isn't a harbinger of things to come, I don't know what is:

Lloyd's of London is close to offering independent insurance protection worldwide against potential IP litigation involving Linux and open source software.

Meanwhile, there are people speculating about whether open source - a movement that created the Apache webserver (see image) - will even be around in ten years. Yah, right. And the world is flat.

An over-hyped article on "250mpg electric cars" can be found here. It's, umm, just slightly misleading. Early in the article:

"Plug-in" hybrids aren't yet cost-efficient, but some of the dozen known experimental models have gotten up to 250 mpg.

Later in the article:

As long as [an electrical engineer and committed environmentalist who spent several months and $3,000 tinkering with his car] doesn't drive too far in a day, he says, he gets 80 mpg.

Meanwhile, I think I'ma gonna buy me one of these. I think. If I can get over being a cheap bastard and just spend some money for once (that's a cheapo Epiphone for those who have trouble distingushing. Although it shares the model name - Les Paul - with it's ritzy cousin the Gibson, the Epiphone is a cheap knock off built in Korea. Do not be fooled. Cheap cheap cheap. You think I'd buy the real thing?!)