Oh badger, you really need to take a look at Matt Web and Ben Cerveny’s talk at Emerging Tech.
The shell as MUD.
playsh cooks up the best of Web 2.0, and throws the web browser away. It is a narrative-driven “object navigation” client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys.
You have been eaten by a Grue.