We've all seen a lot of menus in our lives. Restaurant menus, a TV Guide movie listing or a clothes-rack at the mall.
Menus also exist in the computer world.
Well, yes and no. Of course, list-based menus are a good idea. The fact that the menu items are arranged one below another, like text in a book, makes it easy to read through the entire menu while looking for what you want. However, once you've grown familiar with the menu, you already know where the options are so you shouldn't need to read them to get to what you want. Unfortunately this is not the case with list-based menus.