Excessive [?] Widgetry for Talib Kweli’s Ear Drum

Talib Kweli Ear Drum Widget

This is the most complex yet least satisfying widget I have ever encountered.

But that’s just me.  Enjoy!

PS – You’ll have to disable popup blockers for full functionality.  I am now biting my tongue.

Actually, the Talib Kweli website version requires popup blockers but this one doesn’t let me go anywhere to pre-order.  I’m running Mac OSX and Firefox, if that matters.

Please let me know in the comments what’s happening for you.

Take Two:
It wasn’t fair to say that this isn’t satisfying in certain regards but it seems like a lot of work to get a series of sentences out of an interesting and in many ways attractive design.  Bear in mind that I regularly leave sites that require much waiting at all and would probably diss ProHipHop for related reasons if it wasn’t my site.

The screenshot provided for pr purposes gives one a different sense of the underlying design, though it’s not quite as enticing and obviously not optimized as a still graphic:

Screenshot of Widget on Kweli’s Website

It’s an interesting idea with poetic aspects and I do generally advocate experimentation but I just have a strong reaction to things that make me wait and that make me work to get little nuggets of content.  Considering the popularity of MySpace with its wide range of clunky bits of coded baubles I’m not the best judge of these things but I typically wouldn’t have taken the time to discover the positive side if I wasn’t trying to make some sort of judgment call.  And this is obviously a much more interesting and attractive experiment than the junky additions to MySpace.

Whether you agree or disagree, here it is, you can judge it for yourself and look forward to more cause I don’t see folks stepping back from this kind of thing.