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Check the sidebar: S'new review-o-matic. Or to be perfectly accurate, it's the new review-o-manually typing it in and republishing the index page because I can't figure out how to make it automatic. (Sigh) I know it's possible to do so with the XML site feed, but I can't for the life of me figure it out or find a place to steal the code I want. I know it's possible to get what I want, because I stumbled upon this:

Is perfect no? Except, of course, that I utterly loathe it. Not just because of the corporate logo, not just because the color scheme clashes with my current... green scheme something awful, but more because it's an example of something I hate: using a flashy graphic where simple text would be not only simpler, but more effective. Also, useful on a text-based browser. (I don't discriminate against Lynx users! The only thing you're missing is a big duck in the corner!) If there were some way to pull the relevant code out of yon animated .gif, I'd be all over it. But no... flashy graphic, take it or leave it. I'll leave it, thank you very much.