Go to the website, don't type anything and hit "I'm feeling lucky!", a counter appears. At first it looks like it's a countdown in seconds to new year, but it actually is running faster than seconds, so what could this be?
Maybe they're (also) counting down to the end of their code freeze?<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121101132.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12...</a>