Old "Fun Stuff" List

Older and Possibly Obsolete Information Follows

This is the "Fun Stuff" page that was linked from the www.mit.edu home page up until October 1997. There's no longer a link to this page from www.mit.edu, but we're leaving this page in place because we know there are links to it elsewhere. Please don't bother to tell us about broken links from this page.

• This is an interactive cinematic experience that highlights MIT student actors and the Boston underground club and music scene.
• Test your ability with a Java Poker game at the MIT Media Lab.
• The Twinkies Project at Rice. See linearly accelerated Twinkies.
• XEvil, a blood-n-guts game for UNIX boxes, is available here. Hey, the more UNIX games in the world, the better.
• Bryn and Bamf's wedding photo album. Why? "It's fun. It's unique ... It's the only place on the web you can see Marc Horowitz and Jeremy Brown in tuxedos."
• The Media Lab's postcards server. No, it has nothing to do with the SIPB server, and yes, it's been around a while, but it's still cool.
• Lurker is an interactive web game/movie written here at the MIT Media Lab.
• iComix! is a sight-optional comic strip interface. I.e., it is readable by the visually impaired and by users of text-based web browsers. It may not work quite right yet, though.
• If you're a member of the MIT community, you should read André DeHon's security assessment for the MIT Card.
• Andrew Q. Kraft's Theatre Central page. "Anything and everything that you could ever imagine in the world of theatre on the Web is here," says enthusiastic creator.
• The Tech Classics Archive. Hey, classics can be fun (like when you're punting your 8.05 problem set). Everything from the Iliad, to Herodotus' History.
• Comics (Unfortunately, copyrights require that we limit availability of these comics to the MIT community.):
  • Dilbert, by Scott Adams
  • Bizarro, by Dan Piraro
  • Views of the World (international editorial cartoons)
  • The Adventures of Sergei Coathanger, by Ted Devlin (MIT '87)
• First Night Boston
• Boston Classical Music: information maintained by Rosario Gennaro.
• The MIT Hack Gallery. Your favorite hacks are here, from the CP Car on the Dome, to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the All-Night Tool.
• A cybermystic novella, vh485, by Nic Kelman. Its maintainer tells us it's the first novella written exclusively for net distribution and net distribution only.
• Jake and Matthew's Adventures
  • Matthew and Jake Fly a Kite
  • Matthew and Jake go to the LSC Party
  • Matthew and Jake put a CP Car on the Dome
• Hey, rei's good old html Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-like game "The CyberMUD". Give it a shot sometime. It's well over a year old. It must be a classic!
• Matthew Gray and various SIPB members present: StoryFun!
• The Hacker Crackdown, a telling of Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.sf.ca.us>.
• Let's Argue! A sports column in The Tech.
• shabby's Star Trek Schedule (with Boston Air Times).
• Information about Pretty Good Privacy, a freely-redistributable public key cryptosystem.
• A Gallery of Interactive Geometry. Excellent!
• Firehose Tavern, a MIT comic strip which appears periodically in The Tech.
• LSC has movie schedules and other information online.
• A listing of parties and other upcoming local social events
• Matthew Gray's list of cool stuff on the web
• Dilbert, the comic strip by Scott Adams.
• The latest of Dr. Fun.