A pictures worth a thousand words! Why so few graphics?
This site is about ideas, opinions and thoughts expressed with words, not with pictures. You can find thousands of sites with as many pictures as you want, from museums to all venues of life. We focus on words. In addition, graphics slow the downloading process of the pages quite substantially, especially for the readers who use analog phone lines with 14.4 Kb or 28.8 Kb modems. Finally, they add to the congestion problems (lack of bandwidth) that we all have experienced of late. So, we have nothing against nice pictures and great icons but we prefer to use them only when necessary to convey a specific message.