Best and worst Austin websites of the past week.
Worst: the KGSR website, which is so bloated with ugly pictures, nonsensical graphic menus and malfunctioning frames that it took minutes to load over a zippy cable modem and nearly swamped my browser on a Sun with lotsa memory. The gratuitous frames wouldn't let me scroll down through all the crap until the page was completely loaded; to add insult to injury, the navigation requires you to have memorized their marketing dweebs' terminology for their various contests and promotions in order to find them. I say that every contestant who successfully gets past all those obstacles has earned a free trip to New York to hear Norah Jones on Saturday Night Live.
Best: Nigel Richardson's Yes/No Interlude, the blog of an Englishman getting his first taste of life in Texas. Some Texas customs underwhelm and others overwhelm, but he reports it all with a dry sense of humor. As a music obsessive with a focus on "forgotten mid-80s northern post-punk angular guitar curmudgeons", he's starting to find his way around the Austin scene. I only wish his blog were more interactive -- he doesn't respond to comments much. A sample: referring to another Austin blogger's entry on the Texas Gay Rodeo, Nigel says, "I thought [it] only existed in a King of the Hill episode, although I've come to see that show as being more and more of a real life documentary since moving here."