Change is the only constant.

Thank God, right? Seriously, do you know anyone who isn’t at least relieved, if not downright giddy, to know that President Fredo Corleone has finally delivered his last State of the Onion speech? Not to disrespect the office, of course, but the sheer sight and sound of this putz is enough to send more than a few of us into a remote-clicking, mouse-pounding rage. From where we sit, Dick n’ Dubya can’t hit that rubber-chicken circuit fast enough.

The same might be said of the old GoToTell.com. Good riddance. Reading that thing hurt our eyes, and we wrote the sombitch’! We hope you like the new version. The Fact-O-Matic and Fined Dining search tools need some work. Are you listening Mr. Website Maker? On balance, though, we think this version will be a lot easier to look at and a lot more inviting to anyone who wants to comment or blog. No more smelly registration!

And while you’re here, scroll to the bottom of the page and check out the News of the Odd video feed. If we’re not interesting or entertaining enough for you (always a distinct probability), something down there should make the whole sordid side trip worth the click.

We’ve made a small change that we hope will have a large impact. Until today, you had to register to post a comment at GoToTell.com. No more.

Got something to say? Say it here. We aren’t going to thread you through a sign-up process, where we demand an email address, send you an impossible-to-remember password and force you to log in again to use it. From now on, just post your comment. We reserve the right to delete stuff that’s totally inappropriate or grossly offensive but we aren’t going to exercise prior restraint.

In our opinion, anonymous posts are a little less credible than posts bearing the actual name of the author. But we also realize that people have important things to say and perfectly good reasons to say them anonymously. So, we encourage you to put your real name next to your thoughts but we don’t require it.

We hope those of you who read this site (and we know there is a gradually expanding group of you) will take advantage of this change and become a little more talkative.

We’ve been hard at work the last few months or so on a major redesign of GoToTell.com and the results should be visible within 24 hours.

Because this sort of transition can take a few days to propagate throughout the Internet, you might not see a difference until the latter part of this week but we promise you this: the changes are unmistakable.

First, we’re dumping our user registration process. To describe the one we’ve got as cumbersome is far too charitable. We use more colorful adjectives to describe it but we’ll spare you those details and let it suffice to say that the new site will be more accommodating, faster and more intuitive.

The new site will be much easier to read, too. All of our bloggers will be visible on the home page and you won’t have to be a registered member to read them (who ever seriously thought that was a good idea, anyway). The entire layout will be more elegant and easier to scan at a glance.

The best of GoToTell will go with us to the new GotoTell. For example, you’ll still be able to look up Florida’s fined dining establishments and check multiple county jail files in a variety of different ways. We’ve got some cool new stuff in store, too. Watch for new bloggers, an off-beat video interface, and links to journalism you aren’t likely to find on your own.

Stand by. GoToTell is about to improve.