Fun Stuff
Some fun stuff to see and do nearby on the web and around the town. As
always, if you have suggestions or links you'd like us to put on this
page, send mail to webmaster@mit.edu
. Most recent
additions are at the top.
- 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.):
- 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
- Hey, rei's good old html Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-like game (called "The CyberMUD"). Give it a shot sometime.
- Matthew Gray and various SIPB members present: Madlibs! (Still needs polishing, but it's funny).
- 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, is available to the MIT
community. (Sorry to the rest of you. It's copyrighted stuff.)
- The latest of
Dr. Fun.
webmaster@mit.edu