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    > Americans drink a ton of it. It is one 
    > of the very few foods in the US which 
    > Europe simply cannot approach.

Just like coffee, I presume.

That’s accurate. Articles are peppered with first person pronouns. Minimalist on presentation AND content, sadly.

A millimeter (which I rather often call “milímetro” or “millimètre”) is also too late. By the way, the SI uses powers of ten.

An inch is too big. A centimeter is too late.

I was reading this like any other ordinary story. Then I got to this part:

    Amazingly, he doesn't do transplants anymore. 
    Tracheas, he has decided, can be regenerated 
    from scratch, using stem cells.

It brought tears to my eyes. No amount of bad news can weaken the beauty contained in that little paragraph. This made my day, really.

Pro: tab bars are modeless. Con: less content, more chrome.

Certainly. In my opinion an explicit quote of part of the original article would have been better than paraphrasing. Quoting reinforces the value of the source (“we couldn't write it any better”), paraphrasing does the opposite.

Hence the "drama".

Real life needs some serious mutexing.

I really need something like this. However, I watched the video and came back unconvinced. You don't show me how to manipulate data. How do I get it into the canvas? Can I get it from APIs? from Google Docs? Can I bind data to attributes of the objects I drag and drop into the canvas? Can I filter and aggregate my data or must I preprocess it offline? We really need a web app that brings infovis to the masses — like a Garageband-ified Tableau. There's nothing like that yet. But if you are just a themed clipart canvas, you'll find a formidable competitor in PowerPoint.