Just, wow. (OK, this has been in the wild for weeks, but we’ve been buried under snow up here and this is the first time I’ve watched it.  I think Tufte would approve.) The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Something between recession and depression might better serve to describe the relentlessly worsening pickle we’re in, and perhaps convey its urgency without igniting widespread panic. Addressing the appellative problem, that estimable pair Jay and David Levy have dusted off a label they’ve pinned on earlier serious setbacks, calling the current state of the economy a "Contained Depression." [1] Maybe it’s just because they’re getting paid and I’m not, but I love to see mainstream scribes squirm.  Propaganda often becomes educational when it starts breaking down.  This piece asserts the meme that "depression" has been overexposed in the news for a…
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One word: waste My heart swells with pride at the thought of the courage and brilliant achievement that went into making that self-licking ice cream cone work at all (click on the pic for the Osprey’s Wikipedia article).  I wouldn’t want to minimize the trickle-down effect from all the research, either.  To a large extent the whole microcomputer revolution was a direct spinoff from my own father’s efforts between 1969 and 1978 to get some onboard processing stuffed into the AIM-7, but at least that bird was arguably useful.  This latest raptor looks to be vulnerable to air defense systems…
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