http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/hacks.html Hacks and humor headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/hacks.html 88 31 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/game-hack-tt1212.html Hackers hung this MIT-centric game of Scrabble on the side of Wiesner Building (E15) this week. Versions of other games, including chess and Cranium, also appeared at various spots around campus. Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/game-hack-tt1212.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/shannon-0530.html Known as the father of digital communications and information theory, late MIT professor Claude E. Shannon spent his spare time inventing clever, toy-like devices for fun. Among the creations are a chess machine and a juggling W.C. Fields. Wed, 30 May 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/shannon-0530.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/doonesbury.html Alex Doonesbury, 17-year-old cartoon offspring of "Doonesbury" cartoon dad Michael Doonesbury, will be attending MIT this fall, thanks to the Institute's victory over Cornell and Rensselaer in a straw cyber-poll. Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/doonesbury.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/piano-drop.html The annual piano drop from the top of Baker House marks the spring semester's drop date. Mon, 1 May 2006 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/piano-drop.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/cannon-0412.html MIT hackers took their show on the road over spring break, nabbing this Civil War-era cannon from Caltech in California and bestowing it with a uniquely MIT signature -- a mold of the MIT 'brass rat.' Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/cannon-0412.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/latke-0308.html Team Latke insisted on the superiority of the potato pancake over its rival Jewish delicacy, the hamentashen, during the annual Latke-Hamentashen Debate held Monday, March 6, in Room 10-250. Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/latke-0308.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/mario-squid-1221.html This squid hung in a stairwell down the Infinite Corridor on Monday, Dec. 12, as part of a Super Mario hack that started in Lobby 7 and continued all the way down the hall. Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/mario-squid-1221.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/unuseless.html The delight of "what if?" lies deep at the heart of MIT life, and Luis Berrios-Negron's vision of capturing that spirit in a design contest and major party will be realized this Friday night at MIT's First Unuseless Beaux Arts Awards Ball, to be held in R&D Common, Stata Center, fourth floor, at 8 p.m. Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/unuseless.html