If you spent Valentines all alone look no further .. maybe www.hotprisonpals.com will have a just the right man for you. Yep. Some of America’s most desirable felons are lining up to send you love letters, poems and even proposals of marriage.

Some of the men are getting out soon while others are until 2023. If you like space in your relationships this might just be perfect.

The idea for hotprisonpals came from New York pop artist Sam Wagner, who began writing to a friend in jail several years ago. The prisoner then asked Wagner to write to his cell mate who had stopped receiving letters from his family.

Requests for letters from lonely prisoners kept coming, until Wagner was sending a monthly letter to more than 100 inmates.

With no access to the Internet, letters are often the only contact U.S. prisoners have with the outside world.

“Prisoners have real abandonment issues. Friends and family often stop writing after a couple of years,” said Wagner’s business partner, Jason Rupp, who built the Web site in 2003.

“The letters they get through the site are crucial to their well being. They need to know someone on the outside cares.”

The inmates, both straight and gay pay $19 each to have their photos and a short note on the site. Female inmates have been invited to join hotprisonpals but so far none have joined.

“We don’t require that prisoners say what crime they committed,” said Rupp, a 30-year-old photographer who runs the site from his home in the Thai capital, Bangkok.

“We take everybody. If they are murderers or rapists they are not going to put that in the ad.”

“Sometimes the messages get a little racy and we like that,” said Rupp. “We pride ourselves on having the hottest prisoners on the Internet.”

Pen pal friendships often lead to prison visits and serious long-term relationships.

The prison marriage of Erik Menendez — convicted with his brother Lyle of the 1989 murder of his wealthy parents in Beverly Hills — has helped generate interest in prisoner dating.

Menendez married a woman with whom he had corresponded for years from jail. A book by his wife Tammi, “They Said We’d Never Make It”, heavily romanticizes the unconsummated relationship.

“It’s a thrill for women. These are good looking guys and they can seem really exotic from the outside,” said Rupp. “It’s a fantasy. You don’t see any of their flaws.”

“We have scoured the prison floors and checked each bunk bed, both top and bottom, looking for the men that you have dreamed about,” the site says.

Ladies? Get your pens ready.

Now this is odd, Hans Monderman, a Dutch transportation planner is pushing his innovative plans for improving traffic.

Would you like to know what proprosals he’s made? Glad you asked. His proposals include eliminating traffic signs and street markings, which he thinks will force drivers to be careful as they hunt for their destinations, and building children’s playgrounds in median strips of roads, figuring that drivers would surely slow down.

Hans - you haven’t been taking your medications have you? Kids playing in the medians? No traffic signs? Hello? People have a hard enough time driving and not getting into problems with traffic signs. Plus- what wouldn’t that confuse tourists and out of towners even more?

What do you think of this proprosal?

Do you think this is a good plan or a bad plan? New York’s assault on obesity includes a plan to require some restaurants to list the calorie content of their foods right on the menu. I think I’d like that myself.

New York City’s health department just wants to make diners aware of a meals potential effect on their waste lines. As currently written, the rule would apply only to eateries with standardized portion sizes that already disclose calorie information voluntarily. Mostly, that would mean national fast-food chains, which frequently post nutritional charts on their Web sites or print it on fliers. New York’s Board of Health is scheduled to vote on the labeling of calories for menu items proposal in December.The regulation would take effect in July if it’s approved.

What do you think? If this only affects restaurants that already disclose calories information voluntarily is this going to make any difference? If it required all restaurants to list calories on their menus then I think it would be a big change, but as it stands- not so much of a change is it?