this is cute, but it would've pissed me off so much when i was single and looking

i have one of those cool "persistence of vision" clocks that waves a single line of LEDs back and forth and times the lights just right so it looks like the display is floating there in midair.

normally, the display randomly cycles among the date, the day of week, the time, and various combinations thereof. but today, there's an additional thing in the mix: "someone awaits you tonight! happy valentine's day!"

which, i mean, is kind of cute, but wow, when i didn't have someone awaiting me on v-day eve, it would've pissed me off massively.

terror level orange

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/045/wash/Government_warns_industry_abou:.shtml reports that at least some of the "evidence" used to justify moving us to TERROR LEVEL ORANGE was fabricated.

color me shocked.