GapMinder: Myths about the developing world

From Dan Atkins, a pointer to a wonderful source of animated information on world development trends. "Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics." You can also see Hans Rosling's talk on this work at TED. I'm not sure which is more amazing: the ways in which modern visualization techniques can be used to bring dry economic data to life, or the misconceptions that many of us (well, myself, certainly) have about the state of our highly dynamic world.