It's groovy UI day. I was going to werble on a bit about the doughnut menus in Second Life, which create a kind of quick pseudo-gesture once invoked with a right-click. I'm generally not fond of gestures or wacky UIs but this one seems to work pretty well; well enough for me to spend last night making objects without going stir-crazy and yelling at the machine.

But then I was seduced away from that by an even groovier UI notion on ShinyShiny: a device whose physical characteristics change as its data characteristics do in a wonderfully intuitive way. Yep, a memory stick which inflates just like a hoover bag. I think that's a great bit of UI.

Meanwhile that warm breeze that's kicking off today? It's the fag-end of Hurricane Gordon. You never know, could be fun, but nobody at the Beeb has said there's no chance of a hurricane yet...