Back off
Please note: This site’s background has been changed back to yellow to indicate that the national terror threat is being lowered from High to Elevated. This should in no way be taken as an indication that the Axis of Evil is any less evil, nor that the evil doers are any less likely to use their weapons of mass destruction. The next status change is not expected until approximately 1-2 weeks before the November elections. Stay tuned for updates.
Update: Chatter picked up from CNN.com and the Associated Press. Also, Boing Boing reader Jon alerts Mac OS X users to Homeland Alert, a doohickey that displays the current Homeland Security Advisory status in your menu bar. (Note to Windows users: be sure to keep a Mac in your bomb shelter/bunker, just in case.)
September 24th, 2002 at 11:51 am
do you still think george is changing his tie to correspond with the terror level?
September 24th, 2002 at 2:21 pm
Don’t even tell me you still insist he hasn’t been. Look at that tie. It’s totally a High Alert tie. And that picture was taken this morning—before the order to change the alert status from orange to yellow. Just keep watching, I guarantee the yellow tie comes out in the next few days.
September 24th, 2002 at 7:17 pm
As soon as I heard we were back down to yellow I ran over here to see if the color had been changed. It has, and indeed all is good in the world. I feel safe now, because BarkingMoose is yellow. Thank you, thank you for keeping me informed.
September 24th, 2002 at 7:23 pm
How sad, I did the same thing. An christ, now I’ll be checking dubya’s tie. I need a life.
September 25th, 2002 at 4:14 pm
Turns out he was wearing that tie because he was at the University of Texas. What a goober.
October 14th, 2002 at 8:50 pm
Burnt or’nge is taken very ser’ously and treated with consid’rable respect ’round these parts.