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Technical Communication Quarterly has a hefty interview with Edward Tufte (via kottke.org). He talks about a lot of things, including his next book. There's some good news:

TCQ: You have a new book coming out this year: Beautiful Evidence.

But there's also some bad news. Tufte doesn't address the pubdate in his reply, but in a later answer he says:

Tufte : ... Authors are worse than home construction contractors in their stupendous optimism about when something will be done. The book is already long, and I still have quite a bit to say.

On the other hand, he's almost done. He doesn't give a date or an ISBN, but he has posted several draft chapters:

• "Links and Causal Arrows: Ambiguity in Action"
• "Sparklines"
• "Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations"

Info Goddess will love this.

She will also love free graph paper (via Boing Boing). Besides classic squares (inches or metric), there's asymmetric (for knitting), dots, iso-dots, hexagonal, hex dots, and Celtic knot. And it's customizable. There are also links to probability, log, and polar graph paper.