IHTFP Hack Gallery NewsIHTFP Hack Gallery staffhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/feeds/recent-news.atom.xml2008-01-28T07:24:33ZCopyright (c) 1997-2007, IHTFP Gallery Staff Added: Banner mocking Larry Summers' comments on Women in Science at Harvard (from 2005.03.xx) 2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/wise
Banner mocking Larry Summers' comments on Women in Science at Harvard
Added: Sunken pirate ship and tombstones honor demise of Course 13 (Ocean Engineering) (from 2005.01.31) 2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/course13
At the begining of the term that Ocean Engineering was incorporated into the Mechanical engineering department, hackers placed a sunken pirate ship and tombstones on kresge oval.
Added: Techstasy hack issue of student run newspaper The Tech (from 2001.05.23) 2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2001/techstasy
Hackers made a hack issue of the Tech
Added: The Toke hack issue of student-run newspaper The Tech (from 2000.12.13) 2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2000/the_toke
Hackers ditribute a hack issue of the tech.
Added: The Boston Glob hack issue of local newspaper (from 2000.05.11) 2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2000/boston_glob
Hackers distributed hack issue of Boston Globe.
Added: Hackers drop beavers at Harvard-Yale Game (from 2000.11.18) 2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2000/beavers
Hackers drop stuffed beavers over crowd at harvard-yale football game onto the crowd below.
26 New Hack Writeups Added2007-12-29T00:00:00Z2007-12-29T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/new.html#news.2007.12.29-106
26 new hack writeups have been added to the gallery for hacks between 2000 and 2007 in the last several days. Check out the timeline.
Added: Crop Cirlces show on Discovery Channel (from 2002.10.10) 2007-12-28T00:00:00Z2007-12-28T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2002/crop_circles
5 students from MIT constructed a crop cirlce for the discovery channel.
Added: UMOC entries in Lobby 7 (from 2002.11.13) 2007-12-28T00:00:00Z2007-12-28T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2002/umoc
UMOC entries on the pedestals in lobby 7.
Added: "Institute Historian, T.F. Peterson" in Library of Congress database (from 2002.09.09) 2007-12-28T00:00:00Z2007-12-28T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2002/tf_peterson
T.F. Peterson put in Library of Congress author database, despite not existing.
Added: Eigenfish in 18.03 (from 2002.05.10) 2007-12-28T00:00:00Z2007-12-28T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2002/eigenfish
Banner dropped from the ceiling during an 18.03 lecture asking for a classes response to a unit impulse of fish.
Added: Tech Talk (hack issue) (from 2002.04.17) 2007-12-28T00:00:00Z2007-12-28T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2002/tech_talk
Hackers made a hack issue of Tech Talk that looked so similar to the real thing that many students did not notice it was a hack.
Added: Mario Brothers in Infinite Corridor (from 2005.12.14) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/mario_bros
The infinite corridor was turned into a level from mario brothers.
Added: Dollar bill gets President Hockfield's face (from 2005.05.06) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/hockfield_bill
The dollar bill outside the cashier's office was modified to have Susan Hockfield's face.
Added: Caltech vs. MIT (from 2005.04.09) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/caltechvsmit
During CPW 2005, a group of hackers from Caltech came to MIT to pull pranks around MIT's campus.
Added: Study on the effect of tinfoil hats on blocking mind control satellites (from 2005.02.17) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2005/tinfoil_hats
Some students at the media lab and in CSAIL did a study on the effect of tinfoil hats on amplification/attenuation of radio frequencies.
Added: Pirate flag and banner on great dome (from 2003.10.25) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/pirate
Hackers placed a pirate flag and banner on the great dome.
Added: Hack issue of MIT/WEllesley student magazine Counterpoint (from 2003.09.xx) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/counterjoint
Hackers made a fake issue of Counterpoint
Added: SPODSA New Student Registration (from 2003.09.02) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/regday_spodsa
Prank new student registration forms.
Added: Rocket disperses flyers over Freshman Picture (from 2003.08.26) 2007-12-25T00:00:00Z2007-12-25T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/froshpicture_rocket
A rocket launched during the freshman picture dropped flyers over the crowd.
Syndicated news feed added to the Gallery2007-05-19T00:00:00Z2007-05-19T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/new.html#news.2007.05.19-103
There's now an xml/atom syndication feed of recent gallery news and write-up additions. This is also available through the mit_hacks feed on LiveJournal.
Site updates in progress2007-05-11T00:00:00Z2007-05-11T00:00:00Zhttp://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/new.html#news.2007.05.11-102
This site is undergoing significant updates. Some hacks after 1997 are missing write-ups and photos, but we're working on improving this. The timeline from 1997-present should be up-to-date, so please let us know if we're missing anything from it.