The MIT Girl and Flashing Shirts

I was totally disappointed when Star Simpson, a sophomore at MIT, had the terrible judgment of walking into Boston's Logan airport with a home-rigged LED device in her sweatshirt. Thankfully she was only arrested and instead of being MIT's first Darwin Award recipient. Of course it didn't help that she performed this stunt in the city known to overreact whenever LEDs are involved as with the Aqua Teen Hunger Force bomb scare.

As I drown under the weight of holiday catalogs (go to CatalogChoice.org to opt out), I perused through Computer Gear and found not one, but FOUR shirts that they offer with flashing lights. The TSA will either have to ban these or get used to a lot of geeks strutting their stuff.

Here's one that is suspiciously similar to Star's shirt:


Here are some others:



Click on the images to get to the catalog pages. Buyer beware when going through airport security!