Daring Fireball

The 13 circuits of the U.S. federal courts of appeals operate with a fair amount of independence, including their typographic choices. I was reminded of this today while reading the aforelinked decision from the Ninth Circuit in Epic v. Apple, because...

Following up on yesterday’s item re: Apple’s petition to the Supreme Court, here’s the Ninth Circuit ruling. It starts with a “Summary” that is specifically intended for the convenience of the reader. Page 50 is where it covers Apple’s argument regarding...

Kieran Healy kindly accepted my implicit homework assignment yesterday, and wrote a piece on Apple Sports’s bizarre “zero sum” team stats visualization:
It also doesn’t do away with the core problem. That problem isprincipally one of information design rather than datavisualization. What I mean is that what we’re trying to organizeis, in effect, fifteen pairs of related but fundamentally distinctnumbers...

James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times (gift link):
He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a newproject to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). Hedidn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own weird,wonderful way....