@Ted Clayton

My ears perked up, at the reference made by WP Awesome FAQ, to custom Post Formats. And for good reason ...

The WordPress Codex page for Post Formats says: The Post Formats feature provides a standardized list of formats that are available to all themes that support the feature. ... New formats cannot be introduced by themes or even plugins. - [emph. added]

So we have ~9 official Post Format choices, covering what look like really quite-simplistic options, and no means to create any new Post Formats. Or do we?

It's a confusing situation, and it has been for what is becoming "a long time".
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For the record, I am not a computer or programming pilgrim. I've been focused on a lifestyle outside computerdom that has had me slowly falling behind the emerging or cutting edge in digital culture, throughout the Internet era ... but once upon a time I was an advanced student in operating systems, compilers & interpreters, databases etc, mainly using Assembly Language and C.

I had no real difficulty shifting over to Linux, and work comfortably at the command line prompt (which of course is all anybody had, before GUIs ... and they're all pretty similar). I read hexadecimal. I wrote my first website, by hand with HTML (and later CSS), 15 years ago, made a dozen before deciding to go with dynamic pages, and I dabble with several modest PHP website scripts, on my own localhost.

However, I can no longer tell what increasingly important parts of WordPress are supposed to be, or become. Explanations for ongoing innovations are all-too-typically problematic. It didn't seem critical, a few versions ago, and I let it slide - it'll all clear up in good time.

Now, though, the much-anticipated Tenth Anniversary Edition of WordPress (v3.6), which was largely centered around a new UI for Post Formats, has crashed. This is serious. The problem was with the UI, or PFs, or something. Nobody knows ... nuthin'.

I understand why WordPress might be feeling that as an organization, they need to go radio-silent and hit the mattresses. But out here in Userland, Headquarters has had since v3.1 to put this new stuff forward in a comprehensible fashion, and instead of getting better, it's gotten actually a bit scary.