Those scatter-graphs in the lengthy CAIB page are just devastating, when you contrast that with with the sentence nope, we don't need any pictures.

Love Tufte; have had his (repro of Minard's) Napoleon *masterpiece on a wall for years - and his pithy remarks indicate he speaks as well as he magnificently illustrates data.

* A visual Strunk & White.. per the Boston Globe (nice!)

I ordered both the PowerPunt and the "Decision to Launch Challenger"- Thanks, Scott!
Damn.. where was Dick Feynman when we needed him (again) to smack NASA upside-head. Dead, like our 'honor' and apparently, our remaining smarts too.

After seeing my second Power Point show, I thought it to be just the kind of blunt tool one should not allow the dull to injure others with - a catalyst for further language destruction. Seems I was way optimistic. Tufte's analysis finds vastly more mischief is done with those trillions of slides.. (Chortle: the annotated Stalin slide.)

What a devastating autopsy of the Boeing slide 'bullet-ing' and Bush-speak evasive PHB terminology. Even worse: Now we hear of the legions of experts lost when threatened by Boeing with a move from CA to HellHouston. Now! it emerges that the source of the no-sweat eval. was virgins! at this entire analytical problem. 2nd degree murder indictments, anyone?

{Sheesh}\ufffd WTF Can One Say. YAN Murican fuck-up in spades. And why would anyone go up in any next shuttle crap shoot? (And wouldn't Shrub love to divert any funds for a redesign.. to budgets for his more aggressive evangelical pursuits. Rhetorical Q.)

Well, the shuttle matter isn't as bad as I imagined. It seems far worse with every new factoid. Shit, can't we do Anything right since Shrub began turning out all the lights? (especially the mental ones)


Ashton