ooh, break from class. it's a wonderful thing. we demo'd a chat-esque software for virtual reference. the strangest thing about it, besides that the person on the other end claimed to be able to send files in 'any format' and that the software works with 'any browser' (this despite the relevant page clearly having illustrations, frames and java), is the chat interface. the box to post messages in is at the bottom, but new messages appear at the top, unlike almost any chat environment one could imagine. weird.