Five colors going, going, gone?

Yes! After nearly ten years, word on the street is that the inane color scheme will be replaced. With what, no one knows. Maybe nothing. That would be fitting. By April 27, which we'll declare as a holiday if it happens.

One of the most notable changes to come: The public will no longer hear automated recordings at U.S. airports stating that the threat level is orange.

That's a relief. Since those messages mean nothing, as it's been orange out for years. Or maybe that's John Boehner's face.

Turn and cough

Conor Friedersdorf writes about security and gender at the Daily Beast. Somewhat satirical, but not completely. Anyway, the first person to send in evidence that, during a security pat down, they said "turn and cough" to the TSA guy wins, well, we don't have anything to give away, actually.

Oh, the onion

A recent "what do you think?" snapshot.

Fun with charts

Google forms puts out nice charts. A little coloration, and, BOOM! All sorts of statuses. No rhyme or reason.

Adverts

Yeah, there's ads on the page now. When I had spent $0 on the website, I figured I shouldn't try to make money off of it. Now that I have to cover my costs (so far, $10.16 for a domain—if some miserable cretin hadn't taken the .com, I'd still be free and clear. I'm not bitter at all. Don't click that link. Just mouse over it.

MSP report

I just wandered around MSP checking it out. Here's the folly of security:

3 checkpoints: No naked machines installed
2 checkpoints: Installed and in use
1 checkpoint: Installed and not in use (roped off)
1 crew only: No machines

They didn't seem to be preparing to install the machines at the non-machine checkpoints.

Does this make any sense?

200!

Over 200 status posts in three days. Keep 'em coming, we'll work on making it as close to real-time as possible.