Something interesting popped out at me while reading a story on the Florida governor’s primary. At the top of the fifth paragraph, when referring to a Florida state senator, Yahoo News offers links to searches on that individual, as they have done for quite some time. Afterward, however, they now also offer a link to his complete voting record, as provided by a partner site. I cannot gush enough to do justice to this insanely great idea. This simple notion is in one stroke why hypertext was invented, why I hope it prevails as the primary news medium, and even has the potential to improve our society by creating that many more informed citizens.

With a firm </gush>, I have only one comment on Yahoo News’ redesign, aside from ‘fixing what wasn’t broken:’ Arial is evil, and must be destroyed. I count the little non-living typographical beastie among my few enemies, and yes, that makes me weird, and no, I don’t care.