The link has now been changed to the Wikipedia one, so I'm not sure what was "hideous", but if it was the animated thing on Wired...I agree it's not for HN read

The link has now been changed to the Wikipedia one, so I'm not sure what was "hideous", but if it was the animated thing on Wired...I agree it's not for HN readers, but I actually sent that link to a few non-techies. So it's useful to us in that regard.