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One Ring Rules the MIT Dome

Posted by Hemos on from the awesome dept.

Patiwat Panurach writes "The Great Dome of MIT was overtaken on the morning of Monday the 17th by a great golden ring, inscribed in red Elvish with text that translates to: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." The hackers were apparently not completely successful, for neither the Great Dome nor Building 10 managed to vanish into the realm of shadows."

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  1. Compared to other Hacks . . . . by actappan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Compared to MIT's history of frankly, wicked cool Hacks (What the students and faculty at the nerdiest of the nerd schools call prectical jokes) this one is pretty lame. Topical, but lame. See the MIT Campus Police Car Hack for one of the better ever performed.

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  2. Middle Earth mural MIT Bldg 24 by peter303 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For you people at MIT, there is a mural of
    Middle Earth on the sixth floor of Building 24
    painted by yours truely some time ago.
    MIT used to have lots of wall murals, but they
    come and go.
    The new coffee house one in the Infinite Corridor
    is neat.

  3. Re:Buildings by Jason+Scott · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They probably mean building 20, an asbestos-tiled "temporary" structure built in 1943 during World War II that went on to be a vital place of innovation for 57 years. It was finally decomissioned and destroyed this year, but not before MIT pranksters made one last comment: sticking an MIT "discard property" tag on its side, a tag that indicates MIT has dropped it from inventory and the item can be removed. (Usually done for smaller pieces of MIT equipment, of course.)

    Information on building 20:
    http://tmrc.mit.edu/bldg20.html