I have been working on creating a working version of mpt's new interface mockup.

I think things are going pretty well, I have made some changes to suit my own taste, while trying to adhere to the spirit of mpt's proposal.  I really like having this in place as the first page you see, as opposed to going straight to the write screen.

You can find a screenshot here.

The page requires my wp-stats plugin to be installed on your system, and you need to drop special-functions.php in your /wp-admin/ directory.  Everything else uses built in WP functions (you hear that photomatt? I am actually writing by the developer guidelines!)

So find the files you need in this archive.  Let me know here if you have any questions/comments.