Hacks and meta-hacks

Hacks and meta-hacks A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two of my halls freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the Guide to Facilities for Individuals with Disabilities campus map psoted on the wall. You cant really see anything in that picture. But what my friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on them, picturing hacks that had happened on those buildings in the last few years. I was really entertained by this clever and subtle hack, so I took pictures. Ill also summarize the pictured hacks for you. Its been a while since the Hack Gallery was updated, and only a couple of these hacks have been put in it. Most of the hacks, youll notice, are cross-group, and the team working on the hack often included members of such groups as Jack Florey, James Tetazoo, the Order of Random Knights, the Western Hacking Organization, and/or no group at all. Picture 1: Location: Killian Court Hack: Model rockets distribute fliers over freshman photo Date: Orientation 2003, 2004 Group: Western Hacking Organization (WHO) Location: Great Dome Hack: Wright Flyer Date: December 17, 2003 (the 100th anniversary of airplane flight) Group: None/cross-group Comments: If any of you guys actually read my blogyou were my heroes when I was a frosh! Location: Building 7 Hack: Banner bearing the words The Only put over Massachusetts in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, replacing banner put up by Caltech that said That Other. Date: Campus Preview Weekend 2005 Group: None/cross-group Comments: This was part of the CPW 2005 Caltech vs. MIT hacking war. I remember eating dinner in the 4th West diner at two in the morning with some of the Caltech hackers. Picture 2: Location: MacGregor House Hack: Go Sox banner Date: Either the last playoffs or last World Series, I forget Group: Presumably people from MacGregor, but maybe WHO Location: Strung over Briggs Field between MacGregor and Simmons Hack: I Hate The Flag Policy protest banner Date: February 17, 2004 Group: None/cross-group Comments: Some explanation of the Flag Policy controversy Picture 3: Location: East Campus courtyard Hack: Coffeemate explosion (not really a hack but whatever) Date: Every year during Orientation, occasionally other times Group: Various residents of East Campus Location: Radome of Green Building Hack: Radome turned into weird smiley thing from Hitchhikers Guide series Date: May(?) 2005 (opening day of Hitchhikers Guide movie Group: James Tetazoo, I think Picture 4: Location: Stata Center (side facing Vassar Street) Hack: Giant property of MIT bar code with bars shaped to resemble Stata Center Date: May 2004 (the day Stata was dedicated) Group: None/cross-group Comments: If you look you can find IHTFP in the bars. And the serial number on the banner is the cost of building Stata in scientific notation. Picture 5: Location: Inside of Rockwell Cage Hack: Harvard banner sporting the words Huge Ego on Harvard logo in place of whatever Harvards motto is Date: Campus Preview Weekend 2003 Group: Either WHO or cross-group, Im not sure So yeah, thats nine hacks. The tenth, I suppose, is the meta-hack itself the map. Location: Infinite Corridor Hack: Stickers representing hacks put on campus map Date: September 2005 Group: I have no idea