Um, actually, I do know about optimizing what is here. But, really, my wish is for an alternative UI that would be very streamlined. Have you seen the kinds of sites I'm talking about? Travel sites are an example.

Specifically, I wouldn't mind if the people boxes weren't always available. If I just had your name hyperlinked I could click on it if I wanted to.

>Any chance you have caching turned off or set very low because most of the images should eventually reside in your browser cache.