John Krygier wrote “I sat down one day and made a list of Tufteisms from the book” … leading to “20 Tufteisms from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”
which he then distills down to six commandments.

As someone who has three of Tufte’s books, this is quite interesting. Another aspect I liked in the books was the frequent use of some fine (and a few bad) maps as examples of points in the text.

First Thoughts on Nikon’s Big Announcement: “The long period of gossip and rumors about a possible Nikon full-frame DSLR came to an end this week with the announcement of the new Nikon D3 featuring the new FX format sensor (24 x 36mm). Nikon also announced the DX format D300 body as a successor to the D200 as well as a crop of great new lenses. Here are a few first thoughts on what these new cameras mean….”

(Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.)

The Guardian considers the commodification of photography… “the difference between a professional and an amateur is not that the amateur never takes really good pictures. It is that the professional will always come up with usable ones.”