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If, like me, you are driving across long stretches of the American West and back again this week, you could do much worse than to have the music of Two Gallants accompany you on the road.
MP3 Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'
Technorati Tags: music mp3 two gallantsStandout UI: Yahoo Foods
Last week Yahoo launched their new food site, and with it a whole slew of nice UI innovations. My favorite new thing is the navigation tabs. Here are two screenshots: the first is the Yahoo Foods homepage, with your normal tab layout. The second shot is from the site's subsections where the tabs are hidden behind the "Food Home" widget.
Very slick! I am becoming increasingly convinced (thanks mostly to the persuasiveness of a coworker) that most of the time global navigations are a waste of valuable screen real estate and don't serve much purpose. The Yahoo Foods solution is the best compromise I've seen so far between hiding the global navigation and keeping the ability to easily switch sections.
Technorati Tags: UX web design yahoo yahoo food webdev user experienceSecond Life comes to NPR
Those who know me know that I am the tiniest bit of a video game nerd. I'll play just about anything, but one game that I just haven't been able to get into is Second Life. I love the concept: A virtual world where you can, after creating your own digital self, make your own clothes, buildings, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. Sounds perfect. Except the game is just incredibly boring. Every time I read an article touting how Second Life is the next big thing, I try to get into it, but I end up walking around naked, lost, and lonely on some island. I've come to the conclusion that Second Life is really not much more than a fantastic story that journalists can't resist.
So this morning when I was on my way into work it amused me to hear NPR Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep conduct an in-game interview with a Second Life consultant about the game. To hear a respected journalist complain about his awkward bodysuit costume and drive a fake Toyota Prius into a fake river, listen to the report at npr.org. It will be the most amusing thing you hear all day.
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