A new description of the progress in the science of understanding visual perception

This article describes visual perception as an issue around the management of limited resource of visual attention that a person has. It is now somewhat understood in the field that visual perception is both a bottom-up as well as a top-down processing process.

Chernoff faces for baseball statistics

This is one of the most terrible ideas I have seen, and unfortunately described by a publication I usually enjoy, NYTimes. This article describes the use of Chernoff faces for looking at baseball statistics. This doesn't work, in my opinion, because humans have a real reactions to depictions of faces. Instead of looking at real correlations, the depictions only confuse the interpretation of the real useful statistics.

WebGuild: Online Shoppers To eTailers: I Want My Web 2.0

As this article suggests, shopping websites will now have no choice but embrace Web2.0:
WebGuild: Online Shoppers To eTailers: I Want My Web 2.0