Fivehead!, originally uploaded by Kluv32.

"I said: 'Then don't look so good!'..."

Looks. Ours has been pretty old for a while now. A little... stale, I guess. So when Hydro went away on vacation and left me to my devices for a few weeks, I did what any red-blooded man would do: I built a new website.

Say hello to Ithacamafia.com, Version 5.

Which, according to my calculations, gives us just under a new version for each year we've been up. Not bad. (Considering I didn't know anything about design back then, and only a little now, I'd say that's pretty good.) But still, it was time to bring the mafia up into 2k6. We needed a cleaning. Thus, I've streamlined and simplified; but, as always, still tried to keep from faking the funk. The highlights:

- Showcasing the efforts of WIMR, which has been a big success over the last few months. It's truly become an excellent community project we've come to enjoy, helmed by everyone's favorite punching-bag, Bobo.
- Direct link to ShuffleThis.com , (parent station of WIMR). Much like the re-launch we have for the main site, in the next month we will be re-starting the IthacaMafia Mixtapes as well. With one in the can already, and 4-5 in the loading dock, we should be good to go. Look for the new mixtape within a week. Get back to work on them mixes you love so much and pass them along to me. (Playlists are also strongly encouraged, and much easier to share than actual Mixtapes...)
- More fun with Flickr. The picture pages have been updated, and now are fully Flickr friendly (since that's where most of us put our pics, anyways). And, if you want to submit your own flickr gallery for the picture pages -- just let me know.
- In case you never memorized the strange, long, "direct" address for the Messageboard, you can now just type in: ithacamafia.com/theboard
- New hotness.

Take a look around, hit me with your feedback stick, and test things out. She may still need some last minute trims here and there, but I think she's looking pretty good. (Considering all the slapdash tweaking I had to do to get her to talk to Blogger...) It's time to get this old girl stretched out and running again.

As always, use Firefox (IE doesn't like us very much), be safe, and Enjoy.

"Ohhh... looks. Oh, man." -- The Student Teachers, "Looks"