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All New Mix Tape Thanks to Yahoo!!

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That's one exclamation point for Yahoo!, and one for me shouting


The developers at Yahoo! have been ever so kind to the web community, of which Dakin and I (collectively known as Duck & Cover, for you newbies [although I was never certain who was Duck and who was Cover. Maybe I was meant to be the ampersand.]) are proud members. You may recall a while back I posted our grief with SeeqPod, which we had been using to construct mixes of musical magic for our dedicated readers/listeners. Well, Yahoo! came to the rescure by developing a JavaScript-driven mp3 player. I emphasize JavaScript here to note the differece between this new player (which you may have noticed by now on the left) and previous, Flash-driven players. People need to download Flash, you see, and even though most internet users already have it, requiring readers to download software just to see your blog is not a nice thing. Not only is the Yahoo! player accessible, it's also free--which is a very nice thing, indeed.


To celebrate our shiny new toy, I've made a fresh playlist with some jumpy, fist-pumping tunes. Please enjoy. Oh, and thanks Yahoo!. If only the punctuation in your name wasn't so awkward.

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