Unicode: The Good, The Bad, and The (mostly) Ugly
Tom Christiansen's slides for Unicode Support Shootout "The Good, the Bad, & the (mostly) Ugly" should be required reading for anyone working in Unicode in my (unfortunately arrogant) opinion.
July 2011 Archives
Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"
Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs" look like an interesting addition to the chart-maker's toolkit (and we all have had to create charts at one time or another).
Perl/CPAN user since 1992.