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….
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…
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 …
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 …