R devel - Jan 2010 - snark of the day: new "features" (??) in Mathematica 7

who wants to write rgl code to do these?

http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2
http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8

  :-)

  Ben Bolker


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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ben Bolker <bolker at ufl.edu> wrote:
> ?who wants to write rgl code to do these?
> http://tinyurl.com/yzojfn2
> http://tinyurl.com/ylrz2p8
> ?:-)
I think that on this one we should follow Nancy Reagan's advice and
"Just say no".

I wonder if they have read Tufte's descriptions of "chart junk". 
If
so they missed the point that chart junk isn't a good thing.