Reframe the reference list; cite far more widely

"Canon" was leaking onto the public site — a nav item, a footer block, a
page title, a set of CSS class names. It was also driving content
decisions it had no business driving: the backlog was ordered around
which references were still unused, which is curation dressed up as
planning.

The page is now /references/, the list is documented as a bibliography
to grow rather than a canon to curate, and the backlog says plainly that
a sin earns a slot by being worth a page — sources are found to support
it, never the reverse.

Adds six sources (Cairo's Truthful Art, Few's Show Me the Numbers, the
Economist's audit of its own charts, Kosara's eagereyes, WTF
Visualizations, Datawrapper's dual-axis piece) and roughly doubles the
citations on the five published sins, to 5-7 each. Two of the new notes
point at sources that complicate our own position rather than back it.

The Economist essay ships without a URL rather than a guessed one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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note: "Slope is one of the elementary perceptual tasks they ranked — and it's the one the shape of the box distorts."
- key: howchartslie
note: "Cairo on proportions as a storytelling lever, not a neutral container."
- key: eagereyes
note: "Kosaras write-up of banking to 45° — including the caveat that the rule was derived for comparing slopes, not as a universal law."
- key: truthfulart
note: "The positive version of the argument: choosing a shape deliberately is part of drawing an honest chart."
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## The sin