So over the past couple of days on BoingBoing, I've noticed a disturbing amount of posts regarding alarmingly paranoid airport security. For example, this girl was wearing a necklace with a pendant in the shape of a tiny revolver on it. The pendant was solid metal, with no moving parts, yet it freaked out the (Canadian) security guard, who dropped the whole "ya never know when they'll invent a gun with NO MOVING PARTS" defense. It was pretty weak sauce. Less than two days later, I found this post, in which a guy with a Transformer on his t-shirt isn't allowed to board the flight with the thing on, because the picture of the Transformer is holding a picture of a gun. As the post says, what's he gonna do, threaten people by brandishing the shirt at them? In the end the guy had to change his shirt. And here's the worst of it: this poor guy has a tattoo of a bomb on his shoulder. He hasn't tried to board any flights yet, but I have a feeling he won't be allowed on if that thing's visible.

So yesterday was the 25th anniversary of WarGames, an excellent movie about Matthew Broderick nearly starting World War III by unknowingly hacking into NORAD's missile command center using his massive 80s home computer. Even though the technology depicted in the movie is hilariously ancient, the film has aged well, and Christopher Knight of "The Knight Shift" blogging excellence has written a great little retrospective on the effect that it had on the cultural importance of computers, especially the Internet.

Slashdot says that John McCain wishes to continue George Bush's illegal wiretapping operation, on the grounds that our Founding Fathers didn't have terrorism in mind when they wrote the Constitution. Mm-hm. I bet those weaklings didn't even know what war was. They probably couldn't even conceive in their tiny little minds the possibility that the U.S. might be invaded or attacked by a foreign power some time in the distant and foggy future. John McCain is so right, guys. Right?

Anyway, on to the weirder news. Some Mexican woman was caught trying to smuggle a statue of Jesus made entirely out of cocaine across the border. Apparently she was paid by some guy to do it, but I think it should be obvious to any rational person that attempting to get through a border checkpoint with a crack Jesus in your trunk is only advisable under impossibly desperate conditions. In other words: it's really not a very smart thing to do. BoingBoing Gadgets found these crazy platform shoes that have GameBoys embedded in the heels. Oh, what the Japanese will do for entertainment . . . although I myself would probably get a pair of those, if only for the little Pikachu inside the heel. It's like a shrine to Pokemon in a shoe, and who doesn't love Pokemon?!

To round everything off, I'll leave you with this fantastic picture of these excellently-costumed Stormtroopers (probably some of the 501st) having a little stare-off with some cops in London. I bet those suckers wished they had guns, didn't they?