Info design in The West Wing

I'm currently revisiting an old series of the West Wing, and found a nice reference to the power of information design - or at least map design.

It's this episode, Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail. The (geeky) Organisation of Cartographers for Social Equality turn up at the White House, much to the derision of all. But when they put forward their case for using the Gall-Peters projection of the world in schools, rather than the Mercator projection, the cynical White House staff are astonished - and not a little freaked out. There's a nice discussion of the issue on the wikipedia entry.

According to the wikipedia site (referencing the fan site), sales for the Gall-Peters projection went up from 3 per day to 120 per day following the episode.