I’m sure I’m one of the last people in the blogosphere to discover this site, but just in case I’m really only the next to last, I’ll pass along this link to a remarkable section on the the Edward Tufte site called “Ask E. T.” Tufte is the author of the classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information as well as the enormously entertaining (and a little reductive) pamphlet on “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint.” Tufte’s website has gotten a lot richer than it was two or three years ago when I last visited. At “Ask E. T.,” Tufte runs a rather unusual discussion forum:

At this moderated forum, I will answer questions dealing with information design. Others can then extend the discussion. I will try to answer questions that have general interest or where I have something to say. Not all questions will be answered, usually because I don’t know the answer.

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Best, E.T.

And yes, Virginia, there’s even an RSS feed. Also, why am I not surprised to see such tight conceptual connections on this site between Tufte and Richard Feynman?