Students at MIT have a long history of pranks (AKA Hacks). Here is one of the latest:

John P. Harvard goes Halo

There is a hack gallery here:

MIT Hack Gallery

Strangely, the hack gallery is missing the recent episode a Logan airport:

Boston Airport Bomb Scare Should Scare Scientists

According to the article:

For those unfamiliar with the story, the student is Star Simpson, a 19-year-old MIT sophomore. On Friday, she went to meet a friend at Boston’s Logan Airport, but made the mistake of wearing her Career Day outfit: a sweatshirt to which she’d attached a circuit board, light and battery. On the back of the sweatshirt she wrote, in reference to her dual electrical engineering and computer science major, “Socket to me” and Course VI.”

The rest of the article goes on to point out that Star was surrounded my machine-gun-armed state police, and that this episode may indicate that we are losing our minds.

But are these pranks really cutting edge? Putting a helmet on a statue – is that worthy of gallery status? Where are the new ideas in prank technology here in the 21st century?

There is at least one person pushing the envelope on pranks, and he has managed to get himself banned from K-mart in the process. The list of pranks contains some that are so bizarre… they further demonstrate how the line between genius and madness is often a blurry one. Nonetheless, it is an interesting read:

How to get banned from K-mart

The thing he missed was taping these events. If he had taped them and put them on YouTube, he might have his own TV show by now. This is probably how “Candid Camera” got started.