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I spotted this chart on Longboard and immediately had to send it over to Junk Charts. Why, why, why?!?! "OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?"... [Read More]
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That "rocker" shows an area instead of height. And I don't know what its height is measuring.
And rock has a lot of good iconography, which could have been used to produce a chart not as horrible as this one.
Posted by: Matias | Nov 21, 2006 at 09:34 PM