Hat tip to Network-Centric Advocacy, where you’ll also find some decent ideas for improving the widget.
My complaint about it? These numbers don’t mean a thing to me. Sure, they’re large, but absent any context, some part of me wonders “Uh, is that a lot?” Show me the extent of the oil plume, show me the degree of damage, and I get it.
we had this cartoon in the newspaper on Monday: “Fokke & Sukke love these little facts: Did you know that already so much oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico that *two* Hummers could have been driven on it for a whole year?”