If you are sitting next to someone on public transportation who irritates you...
 

1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Turn it on.
4. Make sure the guy who won't leave you alone can see the screen.
5. Close your eyes and tilt your head up to the sky.
6. Open this link: http://www.thecleverest.com/countdown.swf

Yeah, you'll be arrested, but won't the good laugh be worth it?

Too bad €'s taking the train less nowadays ... he could have tried that on a certain stalkmirer.

Sadly, in that case - it wouldn't have made a difference

I wonder what the writing at the top sez?

Just don't do that in Boston...

Just bring your braille monitor.

That was my guess as well.

I am curious about the other 10% -- how is that divided up?

Well, I'm pretty sure I have the correct consonent sounds involved but a difficulty in Arabic is that short vowel sounds are not written, they're just known by the speaker of the language. All the dots you see are indicators of a long vowel sounds, but nothing about short vowels so in trying to string the consonants together into words I am almost surely screwing up (and, like all Semitic languages, it is written from right to left; it was cool that Firefox knew this and automatically put the next letter to the left of the previous one).

I know it would make the joke less funny but "arabic numerals" are not used in Arabic (what we call Arabic numberals actually come from India and the Hindu languages) so the clock isn't presented correctly.

Aw, you ruined it. :(