Better Living Through Introspection

First, please welcome Daily Vespers to the blogging fray.

Second, Amazon is rolling out a “preview” function that takes advantage of the recent trend in user interface enhancements with javascript…that is, well-written javascript put to thoughtful use as opposed to gee-whiz effects that amount to nothing. So, if the preview function works, for example, instead of a boring old link to The Dining Room’s Experiments in Ambient Soul here, you should get a nifty pop-up with detailed purchase info, along with the ability to add it to your shopping cart — in theory, this will lead to a higher click-through rate, but that remains to be seen. Give it a spin, roll-over. (If the style of the link isn’t dotted, you’ll get the boring ol’ click through. If it is dotted, you’ll get the roll-over preview.)