MIT staff blogger Ben Jones

Best. Hack. Ever. by Ben Jones

The title says it all.

www.mitcannon.com

Hats off, hacking community. Hats off. For the record, this is absolutely my favorite hack of all time…

Amazing.

-B

P.S. I dedicate this to you. ;-)

19 responses to “Best. Hack. Ever.”

  1. Christina says:
    April 6, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    Just in time for CPW =D

  2. Greg says:
    April 6, 2006 at 2:29 am

    wheeee…

    Yummy yummy I eat cannons!

  3. Tom says:
    April 6, 2006 at 5:13 am

    I agree, I am utterly blown away by this one. This is absolutely the best hack of all time. I REALLY REALLY hope that somewhere, somehow, sometime, we can get the “operational details” of how the heck you ever pulled this one off. Nice job!

  4. Christina says:
    April 6, 2006 at 5:55 am

    OH MY GOD!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    At first, I thought this was kind of lame…but then I READ what actually HAPPENED.

    LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THAT IS AMAZING.

  5. Kiersten says:
    April 6, 2006 at 6:42 am

    HOLA!

    hehehe. Made my trip to 18.02 lecture much more enjoyable.

    ADIOS!~Kiersten~

    ps I’m going to battle of the bands!!!!!!!

  6. Oren Hazi says:
    April 7, 2006 at 12:09 pm

    *cries*

    We want our cannon back!

    Hehe… seriously though… this was incredible. Nice work, guys grin

    -Oren

    Caltech ’10

  7. Catherine says:
    April 7, 2006 at 11:19 am

    AHAHA. Wow. =D

  8. Anon says:
    April 8, 2006 at 1:48 am

    NPR picked this up. Isn’t it still a little chilly in Boston for bikinis?

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5330817&ft=1&f=1003

  9. Eleanor says:
    April 9, 2006 at 7:29 am

    Thanks wink. It was an awesome prank. I want a t-shirt, and hopefully I’ll see you soon… or at least for grad school admissions.

  10. The Keri returns! says:
    April 10, 2006 at 11:04 am

    I have cannon and plaque pictures!

    (Yeah, it’s all I got on Thursday before my camera up and died on me.)

  11. dj says:
    April 9, 2006 at 11:15 am

    i’m so glad i was there for CPW. I got the howe & ser company t-shirt, too. it was great. way to make an impression!

  12. Arka says:
    April 10, 2006 at 12:07 pm

    Oh man!

    The MIT hack is making place in even Indian news papers….

    “The ultimate student prank”….in an esteemed daily…”The Telegraph”

    MIT rocks!

    Man I really want to go to MIT

  13. Anonymous says:
    April 10, 2006 at 5:15 am

    http://www.caltechvsmit.com/index.html

    14 points for that!

  14. Timur Sahin says:
    April 10, 2006 at 7:25 am

    I demand CPW pictures!

  15. Caltech Respondent says:
    April 10, 2006 at 10:23 am

    Just an update on the current situation with the cannon that MIT took on a vacation.

  16. K-Ro says:
    April 10, 2006 at 11:55 am

    I wonder what the payback will be…

  17. Ryan says:
    April 12, 2006 at 4:56 am

    Ben!

    Thanks for making CPW so great.

    I thought seeing an article about the prank on the front page of ESPN.com as funny as actually seeing the cannon!

    http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2406318

  18. Vibhas says:
    April 15, 2006 at 11:59 am

    Lol they actually shot a video of the darn thing being stolen:

    http://www.flemingcannon.com/teasersmall1.mov

  19. Jared Sadoian says:
    April 17, 2006 at 9:56 am

    So yeah, this hack was amazing… definitely well-pulled off. What I can’t figure out is why it took so much more from Caltech to get it back. (I hear $30,000+?) Seems like MIT has their act together, for sure.

    See you next fall,

    -Jared