Wonk Heaven

My inner geek (err, OK, OK, I guess that's more or less indistinguishable from "me") had a borderline spiritual moment upon discovering NationMaster, which lets you compare and graph regions or customized nation sets along a positively dizzying number of different dimensions, from television sets per capita to biodiversity. It'll even generate a color coded map showing relative rankings by region along the selected dimension. All it needs now is a function to plot graphs showing correlation along multiple dimensions simulataneously. Actually, no, maybe they don't need that. I'm not sure I'd ever get anything done… (The usual big ups to Jim Henley for the link.)