I wouldn't mind it, but - for me at least - on a just-before-unibody-gen MBP w Chrome, it is really choppy. I basically see the first 2 and last 2 frames of the animation.

It's better on Safari, but still, it would be better the disable the animation on browsers where it performs poorly.

Somewhat Pixar-ish, like a crowd of cartoon characters dashing off stage to be replaced by a new bunch. Will get irritating very quickly.