Go Team Human!

I was having a lot of fun in the 19th century this weekend but last night the realization that a rocket-powered hoverwinch had successfully lowered a car-sized laser-armed robot onto another planet lured me back to the 21st.

(I'm using the Dwarf Fortress icon because any landing system that complicated must have been designed by dwarves.)

Olympic records throughout history

Here are some animated graphs displaying improvement in Olympic records over the past century or so. All three are excellent examples of the use of graphics to display data, especially the one of the 100 meter dash.

Running!

Swimming!

Jumping!