Yet another reason to spread the hashrate around.  I've said it about 50 times in this thread.  Don't jump onto the biggest pool just because it's the biggest.  I run one of the largest Tagcoin pools, and I actually make more coin per day as a miner on a smaller pool than on a top hash rate pool.  Test for yourself, but you will typically earn at least 10% more per day on a sub 50-100MH pool.  I don't know if there is a science behind it or just plain voodoo, but it seems to be the case with any coin I've tried it with.  I've got people begging me for private pools all the time because of it.

Spread the hash rate around to smaller pools and keep the network healthy.

-Fuse