Electric Josh

Digital cameras are great, but they take photos with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Prints are usually four inches by six, for a 2:3 aspect ratio. That means that when you carefully frame your picture in your camera you need to remember that the edges along the short axis are going to get chopped when you make a print. We always forget this and it's unbelievably frustrating.
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Edward Tufte's site has a long thread (two years worth of what must be heavily moderated postings) that culminates (early) in this fantastic, cold dismissal of large-scale project planning software:

These are excellent and thoughtful contributions by [several people] about the practicalties of project management charts in the face of low resolution IT solutions residing on the interface. Printing out charts and putting them on the wall seems to be the way to go for big, complicated, serious projects.

There are even beautiful scans of draft pages of his new book. If this book is out by Christmas, well, then, this space's author would be a particularly easy to please.
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Jon Stewart on the Bill O'Reilly show. Strange but true.
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The new Get Your War On installment is one of the best in a while.
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