EclecticLip

Today’s occasional edition of visual poetry comes from someecards, via Climate Progress:

Priceless.

Saw this at a friend’s house — a combination hammer / screwdriver.  With a gratuitously beautiful floral print.  (I blew the image up to show the pattern better, like what they do on the outside of cookie boxes.)

It’s part of an ingenious product line (”Pretty Useful Tools” — get it?).  Offering drab-free functionality for handymen and handywomen near you!

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This Dilbert cartoon was too good to pass up, in light of the fact that the book club covered The Halo Effect at the end of June, for its 21nd book — since the book argues that this is in fact how “serious” business authors write their books.

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(Originally written May 10; posted May 17) 

If you’ve had the (mis)fortune to work with me in recent months, you’ll know that I’m on a bit of a warpath against poorly-labelled graphs.  And that I think label-challenged chartists should be consigned to one of Dante’s famous nine circles of Hell — or at a minimum, one of his obscure, seven terraces of Purgatory.

After getting home Friday, refreshed from a good week’s work, I saw the following on Flowing Data, which makes the case better than any 1022 words of my own raging rhetoric, ever could.

Saw this on Barry Ritholtz’ blog (originally from ThisIsIndexed).  Now it’s appeared on Mish’s blog.  Which means this bit of visual poetry is spreading online as fast as economic instability through Europe and beyond…

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