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6:27 pm Wed
Nov 24, 2010
Color-coded terror alert system may soon end
According to the AP and the New York Times, the days of the color-coded terror threat level system—and jokes made at its expense—are numbered.
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What an embarrassment that was. Needing to refer to a color chart to know how afraid we were supposed to be.
Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9_7ovqxvg
All I can say is THANK GOD.
A laughable vestige of Bush’s simplistic terror rating by color wheels system going down.
Well, any of these simple, mappable to a single integer, systems are ridiculous. What’s needed is a vector of elements such as certainty, how big the event might be, or our assessment of how competent we think these guys are. Then you could map the vector onto various elements of the facial expression of a loveable TSA cartoon mascot to make the situation intuitively obvious to the general public. For example, the bigger the planned outrage the wider the mouth of Sammy the Safety Salamander’s would be as he looms over the airport concourses of the nation on really big plasma monitors.
But how will I know which color to be scared of?!?
Poop.
Next week: Flavors!
Oh my giddy aunt, yes! That would have worked so well for George I:
“We’re in deep doo-doo city here, people. It’s broccoli alert!”
it does mean changing the bulb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_gZ_7sdZg
Aw, hell. Now what am I going to do with my color-matched belt set?
Come to think of it, I never wore the blue one…
Surely I can’t be the only one that thinks the color coded scale is nowhere near as bad as people make out. It’s a linear scale. The Red end is dangerous. What’s so hard about that? You could use numbers, but then is the 1 that’s dangerous, or the 5?