When you say, "WTF is happening," are you asking if there is some new and unique DDOS situation underway? I couldn't tell if that was the case (or if this is a pretty typical daily graph) just by looking at the linked site.
Well it has looked worse than that before, it is just a slow news day, hence some of the stuff on the front page.
The problem with that map is it only shows source and destination, not the route, which would also be saturated and affecting traffic.
fancy map. WTF did chattanooga do to piss off santa clause?!
I'd like to see the addition of one feature: a correlation to national holidays. Maybe just have something point out when it's a nation holiday in U.S., China, Russia, etc... I think it would be interesting to be able to visualize that.