Impressive Flash Infographic Widget from NY Times’ Website

I was reading up on a topic that’s been consuming me lately: Health Care Reform.  I’m not going to get into the politics of it right now, but instead I came across a neat flash widget that NYTimes.com has on their site to showcase comments relating to some of their popular topics.  The widget is embed-able, as shown here:

When you find a conversation topic with the embed-able feature, here’s what the menu looks like:

NYTimes conversation widget

A larger sized widget: