This seems like it could spawn some interesting projects!
WARNING: Rant
One thing that bothers me that has little to do with the event is the page loading efficiency of the site. It takes an average of 15 seconds for the initial HTML document to load on my 10Mb/s connection. That's not including window.onload JavaScript execution. A couple of things.
1. You will want to gzip compress your static js and css files. It will speed things up for you.
2. When you load images in an img tag you will want to define the height and width of those elements so that they load faster (since load times are an issue).
3. I'm getting a lot of JavaScript errors in Chrome 9. (I haven't tested other browsers)
4. Put your script tags at the end of your body so that the page can load before the JavaScript is executed. This will help it feel faster. (Is this a WordPress thing that you can't change?)
5. There are two "Follow Me" tabs floating on the right. Consider removing one (especially since they are overlapping eachother).
6. Try to combine as many JavaScript or CSS files as you can to minimize requests.
7. You have included jQuery 1.4.4 AND 1.4.2. Remove one of them.
8. If you have time, use css sprites. Combine multiple images into a single image and use 'background-position' to get the specific one you want. This would be perfect for something like the Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn buttons at the top.
/rant