Gilad Mishne has developed a mood detector for the Live Journal community. In this graph, it detects a "worried" mood following terrorist bombs exploding in London on July 7, 2005.
From another era, 65 years ago, in the words of Winston Churchill:
"Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." - Winston Churchill.