If you recognize this graphic then you are among the coolest of nerds. My favorite Atari game for the 2600 was Adventure. Never in my lifetime will I have as much fun being a dot.

So my friend Doug sent me a link to Panic's new t-shirt store. The T-shirts are definitely nerdcool. I bought a couple. But what he was pointing out to me was the user interface. They have implemented a cool drag-n-drop interface to the store where you can literally drag the shirts you want into your shopping cart and watch your cart update with the item. Your cart, is actually a mimmic of the OS X menu dock at the bottom of the screen. When you remove an item, you can drag it off of your shopping dock and you get a puff of smoke showing the item disappearing, just like in OS X.

There's a lot of UI study that goes into online commerce. The easier and simpler the better. These guys have done a nice job of moving forward. Now to study their code a bit. Incidentally, they also have this functionality on their homepage. If you drag an application's icon to the arrow at the top of the page, it will immediately start downloading the program.

If you don't know Panic, they make Transmit, the best FTP program for the Mac as well as some other cool software. They're based in Oregon, and they seem to get it. They keep things simple and cool.

Play online! You can play a flash version of Adventure online or check out the list of different methods to play today.