The "MIT" "Journal" of "Humor"

Submissions of cartoons, comics, drawings, photographs, opinion columns, prose, stories, and jokes are accepted all year round from any past or present MIT affiliate (students, alumni, faculty, staff, former students, former staff, etc.).

Next Issue

The next issue of Voo Doo will be distributed in May 2009. It's a full 32 page issue with all new material, and all of it is funny. We're accepting submissions until Friday, April 10th--get them in to us at voodoo [at] mit [dot] edu. Now! Now! We know where you live. The sooner you submit, the happier you will become.


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General Information

Voo Doo Writer's Guide

Voo Doo Office Hours

Spring 2009 office hours have been posted! Come by the Voo Doo office, Walker Memorial Room 50-309 every Friday from 7 to 8 PM. What better way to start off the weekend than by spreading humor and pox to your fellow humans?

Annual-ish 24-Hour Voodoo Telethon! April 18 to April 19

From noon on April 18 to noon on April 19, Voodoo will hold its annual 24-Hour Voodoo Telethon! The telethon will be aired on MIT Student Cable (Channel 36) to raise funds for Voodoo Magazine. Bring yourself, your student movies, and your donations to 50-309 to show your support for the only event that can do this to Zoz.


Voo Doo Olympics
The Voo Doo Comedy Cracktacular happened on Saturday, April 8, 2006 and was a resounding success! Five comedians were jeered and hooted off the stage while prefrosh were introduced to the myriad pleasures of beaver-shaped vibrators and GRE prep games. Check out the pictures.

The Voo Doo Problem Set

 Don't have enough work to do? Then try your hand at this latest dribble from the fire hose: the Voo Doo Problem Set. First distributed to 18.01 freshmen on September 30, it is quickly spreading to become the world's biggest craze!

Welcome To The Institute

 In Fall 2005 Voo Doo handed out to freshmen the following Welcome To The Institute document, to prepare their tender young placentas for the bloody uterus of MIT. Check it out!

The Voo Doo Archive Project

We are about to initiate a big effort to obtain and digitise all of the past issues of Voo Doo, all the way back to 1919. Having the issues professionally scanned in excruciating detail costs about $12 per issue, so at our current usual rate of poverty this will take a long time. If you would like to donate money or old issues to this worthy cause, please get in touch with us at voodoo [at] mit.edu. Check with us first before sending us any old issues, in case we have them already. We also will be able to arrange return of your treasured memento. Check out the ones we have done so far in the Voo Doo Archives.


Voo Doo launches the First Annual 24-Hour Telethon on MIT Cable!

 From 8 pm April 10th to 8 pm April 11th, 1999, MIT Cable aired an exclusive live broadcast of Voo Doo staff members making fools of themselves on cable television for 24 straight hours, to raise funds for Voo Doo. We're not kidding. We did it again in April 2003. Want your own live show on the upcoming telethon on April 9th, 2005? Let us know--send us mail at voodoo [at] mit.edu!

Voo Doo enters the Jello iMac Contest

 On March 26, 1999, Voo Doo entered the Jello iMac contest sponsored by Apple Computer and MCC, in which competitors across MIT built iMacs, to scale, out of gelatin in order to vie for the prize of a real iMac. Instead of following the directions, Voo Doo decided to enter the "Open Source jMac," to the surprise of the crowd. The entry consisted of a fake "Think Different" ad we threw together featuring Linus Torvalds drinking a beer, with a box of jello, a spoon, and a mini jello mold duct-taped to it. Here's a picture of the entry!

MIT to stop admitting freshmen in 2001

 Read about it in the News Release published in October 1998. (Note that the photo looks much better when printed.)

Voo Doo hacks Windows Distribution

 On Thursday, July 25th, the evil corporate giant Microsoft released its latest version of Windows in Cambridge. Voo Doo participated in a protest where Red Hat Linux 5.1 boot disks were handed out to brainwashed citizens waiting to buy Windows98. Here is a copy of a pamphlet distributed by Voo Doo staff.

MIT Entropians

 Over the summer of 1997, a (formerly ASA-recognized) MIT activity called the "Extropians" sent a controversial mailing to the class of 2001 which, among other things, questioned the ability of women and minorities to succeed at MIT. Not to be outdone in the humour department, at the Activities Midway Voo Doo distributed a pamphlet written by the MIT Entropians. Here it is in Adobe Acrobat format and PostScript format .

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