You may have already noticed that I’ve added a new feature to Simple Tricks and Nonsense. If not, take a look at the sidebar there on the right. You’ll need to scroll down a ways to see it, past the Quick Links module; it’s a “widget” that shows which DVDs The Girlfriend and I currently have on loan from Netflix. (We share the account, so the titles you see appearing there at any given time may reflect my tastes, her tastes, or our tastes. Try to guess which is which; it’s the fun new party game that’s sweeping the nation!) Kind of fun. Naturally, the three inaugural titles are a bit, well, uninspiring, but they can’t all be Wild Strawberries, can they?

I’m looking into a similar widget that will show off random titles from my LibraryThing catalog, and I’m also planning to prune down the Quick Links so you don’t have to scroll so far to see the widgets. Eventually, I’d like to change Simple Tricks to a three-column format and divide all the stuff that’s currently in the sidebar between two columns, but I haven’t had the time (and, to be honest, I haven’t yet figured out how) to do that.

In the meantime, enjoy my latest exercise in exhibitionism. Hey, I may not get around to writing reviews anymore, but at least you won’t have to wait a whole year to find out how I’m killing my free time!

[UPDATE: As promised, I’ve cleaned house on the Quick Links. I removed a bunch of blogs and journals that I read via Bloglines, as well as some sites that don’t update very often or that have outlived their usefulness. I don’t know if anyone other than me ever uses those links, but if I’ve taken away something you valued, just let me know and I’ll put it back.]