@tonysyu - I know you have some artistic flair. Any ideas? It'd be pretty cool to have a streamplot in there...

Dammit Phil. Stop asking me to do things! I'm really bad at saying "no" ;)

Seriously, though: Thanks for your vote of confidence. That said, there's no way I'm touching the mathtext demo or the financial demo; they need quite a bit of cleanup.

Most of the aesthetic cleanups are pretty subtle, but I did fix some links and reword a bit of the text. For some of the plots, I did some cleanup related to MEP 12, but I wanted to avoid the hassles of moving (and re-linking) the demo files, for now.

BTW, I wanted to add a bit more spacing to the table example, but that isn't readily exposed. Also, I got confused a couple of times because a couple of examples were copied between the pylab_examples directory and the api directory. I guess this will be a part of the MEP 12 clean up.

Dammit Phil. Stop asking me to do things! I'm really bad at saying "no" ;)

I feel really bad now - I actually linked to the wrong place (I meant http://matplotlib.org/_static/logo_sidebar_horiz.png) - what a clanger!

Your change looks good though. I'm going to get it checked out and built - then I think we're pretty close to getting it merged...

Awesome work as ever @tonysyu.

Well now the issue title makes a lot more sense!

Ha! I think I indirectly chose the plots in the sidebar---except for that polar plot. They were originally part of a logo submission I made 5 years ago! I'm not sure I'll have time to fix this up before the release, but I'll look into it soon.

BTW, if the PR is too big of a change right before release, it's not a big deal. Cheers!

Self-assigning. Hopefully I'll get to this today.