I made this, which should be fairly easy to tweak to your desired look (the svg is generated by the script): https://jsfiddle.net/4e6kw8Ls/ (click to toggle zoom)
The docs say they use the time it takes to do a TCP open between their agents because they "believe that TCP Open times are more representative of Internet users' actual experience".
That is, they think pings could be treated in a different way but with a TCP connection establishment you are measuring what most internet users want to do over the link.
As for different readings from different directions you can get that with both pings and TCP open, it's just maybe more noticable and exacerbated with the longer and multiple-message nature of a TCP open.
> This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of the herd nature, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism--how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.
Thanks for that - I do find that quote more interesting. The original simplification sounded like, "Scrap the military, I hate it, it shouldn't exist." Einstein's actual quote outlines that his disdain is for people who enjoy being part of the military herd system, which only still exists because of political interests acting through the schools and the Press. The simplification sounds like, "Scrap the military", the original is more along the lines of "Military would've been gone except for government acting through the schools and media" --> HUGE difference there, and I find Einstein's unedited/un"simplified" far more insightful.
Reading the full text, I wanted to bring attention to a section titled "Thoughts on the World Economic Crisis." The introduction could easily describe what's happening now, and it is followed by useful refutation of causes of the depression that should be kept in mind during discussion of things like the bailout.
