Archive for January, 2009

More broad jump for your eyes

Friday, January 30th, 2009

The German newspaper “Die Welt” doesn’t know how tickers work. Correct: The information passes by your eyes. Very comfortable. Especially if there wouldn’t have been enough room to display the information otherwise.

Wrong: The reader passes by the information. Perhaps you know a dumb dog. Who can pass the newspaper by your eyes.


Source: Die Welt, 2008–08–01, p. 21, click for a longer version

Here another broad jump for your eyes.

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Double spam

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

At November 18th I received this email. Unasked. They cannot blame Excel’s diagram wizard for that. It likes to chop axes. But not always. And not with this data.

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