I'm a little upset myself at the dogma of the current units in place.
I made a primitive spreadsheet to look at the binary "bits" so to say, but I admit I don't have a practical solution to the problem I see of the units mis-representing the actual value these coins hold.
I suppose one can patch their favorite client to allow different units in the GUI, but it's all the same in the blockchain. Representation is a social issue. It's too bad there's no "metric vs Imperial" battle here, choices make it alot easier for people to accept the existing institution

http://pgibson.sdf.org/binarylook.xlsx