July 04, 2007

Cannon at the Fourth

I'm guest-blogging today for Geoff Edgers, who's enjoying a week off. Head on over for ruminations about everybody's favorite true-blue-American-by-way-of-Russia Independence Day tradition.

1 comment:

Lisa Hirsch said...

You need a reference in there someplace to Minard's diagram of Napoleon's retreat:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters

There's probably a full-sized copy on the Web someplace. It is marvelously eloquent.