Monday, May 4, 2009

How Do You Measure A Successful Prank?

Visual Impact plus Lasting Notoriety

In 1999 pranksters turned the dome into Star Wars character R2D2. (Photo courtesy of MIT Museum)
In "Hackers delight -- A history of MIT pranks" the Boston Globe offers a photo retrospective... Including this from 1999, when students transfomed MIT's landmark dome into Star Wars' R2D2.

The latest: This year hackers placed a solar powered subway car replica atop an architectural feature of the dome that looks like tracks. They caputured a short round trip on video April 28, 2009.

Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum

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