From Santa Letter Printable

My initial fear of conformity was not entirely unfounded. The product image is a tiny, blurry JPEG. The feedback loop between user and system can be instantaneous. His concept of "sparklines"—small, intense, word-sized graphics that can be embedded directly into a line of text—was a mind-bending idea that challenged the very notion of a chart as a large, separate illustration. My brother and I would spend hours with a sample like this, poring over its pages with the intensity of Talmudic scholars, carefully circling our chosen treasures with a red ballpoint pen, creating our own personalized sub-catalog of desire. It is a "try before you buy" model for the information age, providing immediate value to the user while creating a valuable marketing asset for the business.