The sheer number of new dataviz tools is just astounding. The team from Quadrigram… gets points for a slick website, enough content to dig one’s teeth into, and guts for trying visual programming (again…). But leave it to the Europeans to forget that ‘data’ are plural, not singular.

Kevin Montrose (of StackExhange) has an interesting new CSS compiler, which he’s called More. CSS cries out for optimization, but I wonder how many of these can exist. More, a CSS compiler « Kevin Montrose….

Unless you count programming languages, I do not qualify as bilingual. But I’ve done business on five continents in as many languages, and I’m hoping that what I lack in true bilingualism I make up in sheer polyglot diversity. Check out The Bilingual Brain Is Sharper and More Focused, Study Says — Health Blog — WSJ…

Someone suggested I read the original John Hughes paper explaining Why Functional Programming Matters. That someone was right: despite the tortured syntax of Miranda, it’s highly literate and readable. (Would be slightly more useful if updated/annotated with Haskell or Clojure sample code.). This is where generators and lazy evaluation…

I feel the ineluctable pull of Dart. Do you? Anyone care to make a wager in when it goes mainstream? Why You Should Start Dart’ing Right Now | Dream In Tech….

A fascinating long-form interview with Linotype’s Nadine Chahine about Arabic typeface design. Naskh scripts are at once both delicate and bold, but I still find Thuluth the most beautiful. I wonder if an electronic Thuluth script will be Nadine’s next project? “From the Inside, From the Heart”: Type Designer Nadine …

Recipe for genius: suppress cognitive left brain. Stimulate creative right brain. Result: thinking cap. I want one. Brain Stimulation Makes the ‘Impossible Problem’ Solvable | Psychology Today….

I generally don’t agree with Al Lewis, but since he has chosen to point put the inequities on BOTH tails of the income distribution, this is worth a read. Corporate taxes as a share of GDP are down from 4% to 1.2%. No wonder we have a revenue problem! Time …