Infoporn: Steam Stats

Valve has a Steam & Game Stats site with fantastic infographics that may be more interesting than the games themselves — to people like me, at least.

For example, there's a hardware survey that shows Intel, nVidia, and Realtek leading in their respective hardware categories, among the users sampled. I also learned that a majority of the users of the service have monitor refresh rates of 60 Hz, about a fifth of users have HyperThreading enabled, and 6.43% have over 250 GB of free hard disk space.

The coolest, though, are the Half-Life 2: Episode 2 Death Maps that show where players died most often in each map.

[via Kottke]

Tennis Court Surfaces

The NY Times' concise graphical explanation of how clay, hard, and grass tennis courts differ, and why Rafael Nadal fares better on one versus the others. [via Kottke]