Just in case you need a special metric
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/07/13/strange-funny-and-baffling-units-for-measuring-almost-anything/
-tj
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There's a similar list on Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement), where
you'll also find a measure of information flow, the Dirac:
Physicist Paul Dirac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac was known
among his colleagues for his precise yet taciturn