What is this?!?

[Jeffrey A Law]

Can someone please tell me what the console is doing in the username
field from the last command?!?

last | more
law       pts/1        planet.super.org Wed Nov 14 12:06   still logged in
console   hft/0                         Tue Nov 13 10:58   still logged in
merk      hft/0                         Tue Nov 13 10:57 - 10:58  (00:01)
console   hft/0                         Mon Nov 12 17:11 - 10:57  (17:45)
dak       hft/0                         Mon Nov 12 17:10 - 17:11  (00:00)

[law at kalel /home/law] finger console
Login name: console                     In real life: ???
[law at kalel /home/law] fgrep console /etc/passwd
[law at kalel /home/law]

jeff