Ahhhhhh the remote..<holds aloft>
great design.

Ooh -- shiny! *genuflects*

(Am I sucking up enough after my collective screw-up? No?)

Thats awesome, I always did have an affinity for list boxes when I was learning vb.net, I also love the swooping arrow, nice touch!

Sycophants.

That arrow depresses me.

took me a second, but thats damned clever darksun.

do i need a shovel in here?

Much needed in my opinion as I did post recently on Sift Talk about being able to sift a channel's queue. Turns out you could do that but I didn't think it was very clear.
This makes it more likely that people will use the channels. I think a nice touch would be to indicate that the main navigation buttons are now filtering for the selected channel (apart from Sift Talk).

However I do notice that clicking on Playlists takes me back to the main Videosift domain whereas clicking on Collectives and Channels does not. Any reason why?

Yeah, I was annoyed by lack of the ability that the remote provides, not enough to kvetch, but happy enough now to say "thanks" for putting that in!