Meanwhile, the messages per minute on twitter were 5x the average according to http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/did-twitter-just-pass-d... and assuming the graph starts at 0.

It'd be interesting to know what type of music people around the world were listening to after the inauguration in comparison to before.

the original.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/YoungJeezy/song/My+President+%28f...

The Web Ops visualizations photostream that this is a member of is really useful for ideas.

Ideas for what?

I'm an engineer/sysadmin and we're responsible for providing instrumentation for operations people. I'm always on the look out for functional and attractive displays, whether it's a color scheme for a cacti graph we already have or something completely different like: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/21/steampunk-problem-li.ht...