"Novelty Metrics" -- I kind of want to put that on my resume just to see what happens with it. Or, I could imagine an entertaining blog existing solely based on that premise.
You might really enjoy the Strange Maps[1] section of bigthink.com. There are some real wonderful ones in the past entries. I have this in my feed, but look at it far too infrequently for how interesting it looks.
1: http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps