WordPress MU

Quick question, is it possible to have my home page work like the wordpress.com home page where is shows stats for all the blogs on the site like

The best of 297,126 bloggers, 301,070 new posts, 378,267 comments, & 72,066,615 words today on WordPress.com.

also is there a plugin which works like the blogger top bar, if you are reading a blog you can just click next to see another one?

Thanks in advance, I have been searching the forums for hours trying to find the answer to the first question! would of thouth it woudl of been in the FAQ and WP mu is advertised as software used on wordpress.com but it does not have the same default functions :(

Yes, actually, MU has the same functionality as wordpress.com. Anything you see that is different is *extra*. Like everyone else, they've customized.

The stats is a built-in function.

<?php
$stats = get_sitestats();
echo "There are currently <b>".$stats[ 'blogs' ]."</b> blogs and <b>".$stats[ 'users' ]."</b> users."; ?>

from here: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/7371?replies=3#post-43880

That will get you blogs & users. Posts & wordcount, gotta code that up yourself, hopefully after creating a new table to store the data so you don't go sorting through a hundred thousand posts at once.

The admin bar is a plugin, whole thread & link here:
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14737?replies=10

Excellent, will take a look.