Local Content

• The SIPB community
• MIT community
• Comics
• Games
• Interesting things on the Web
• Security (or the lack thereof)
• Other

Most of these documents aren't maintained by the MIT SIPB Webmasters. Comments about them should be sent to the documents' maintainer, since we may not be able to do anything about their content. Let us know if you have stuff that you'd like added.

The SIPB Community

• There's the SIPB itself.
• SIPB documents, for learning about everything from AFS, to Linux, to Zephyr, to SIPB itself.
• 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."

MIT community

• If you're a member of the MIT community, you should read André DeHon's security assessment for the MIT Card.
• If you administer a Unix system at MIT (even if it's a PC that only occasionally runs a Unix system such as Linux or NetBSD) you should read some new information about maintaining security so that your system isn't compromised by intruders.
• The MIT FL&L Foreign News and Magazines Page contains over 300 links to news sources in 8 foreign languages.
• 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 collection of writings and resources on women in computer science and engineering, women on the Net, women's studies, etc.
• LSC has movie schedules and other information online.
• A listing of parties and other upcoming local social events.
• MIT is currently helping to establish a Boston Area gigaPoP. As of October 1997, Internet traffic from MIT to Harvard is using part of the new facility.
• The MIT Media Lab
  • Test your ability with a Java Poker game at the MIT Media Lab.
  • 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.
• Useful info for Cambridge people:
  • A list of menus from various restaurants.
  • A BBN list of where to get your car fixed.
  • First Night Boston.
  • Boston Classical Music: information maintained by Rosario Gennaro.
• This is an interactive cinematic experience that highlights MIT student actors and the Boston underground club and music scene.
• Companies started by MIT people. The list is too short, so if you are MIT-community and own a company, submit the URL!

Comics

• 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.
• Firehose Tavern, a MIT comic strip which appears periodically in The Tech.
• Comics from ClariNet. MIT only
• The Adventures of Sergei Coathanger, by Ted Devlin (MIT '87).
• Jake and Matthew's Adventures.
• United Media has their own comics on the web including their popular "The Dilbert Zone", which may or may not be to your liking.
• The latest of Dr. Fun.
• Red Meat

Games

• A Java based Solitaire Game.
• Test your ability with a Java Poker game at the MIT Media Lab.
• Lurker is an interactive web game/movie written here at the MIT Media Lab.
• XEvil, a blood-n-guts game for UNIX boxes, is available here. Hey, the more UNIX games in the world, the better.
• 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: Madlibs!

Interesting things on the Web

• We finally made documents on the comment and counter scripts.
• Notes from the SIPB's IAP java class.
• The Web Consortium Home Page, in some ways the `home' of the Web. This site provides documents formerly available from CERN's web site, info.cern.ch
• Growth of the Web: data collected by Matthew's World Wide Web Wanderer.
• The HTML Primer, from NCSA.
• Daily statistics for www.mit.edu
• Matthew's list of Cool Stuff on the Web.
• Scott Yanoff's list of services on the Internet.
• Another project to provide indexes of useful information available on the Web is ALIWEB, an `Archie-Like Indexing for the WEB'.
• The Tour Page, from the webmasters' BCS presentation. Useful technical links!
• The World Wide Web for Dummies. If you're new to the WWW, or don't know a server from a client, drop by!
• Matthew Gray's list of cool stuff on the web
• A Gallery of Interactive Geometry. Excellent!
• Web Browsers
  • The NCSA Mosaic Home Page, Demo Document, and What's New documents.
  • The Chimera Home Page.
  • The Arena Homepage
  • The Lynx Homepage
• A list of universities on the Web maintained by Christina DeMello.
• Ellen Spertus' Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet

Security (or the lack thereof)

• If you're a member of the MIT community, you should read André DeHon's security assessment for the MIT Card.
• The Hacker Crackdown, a telling of Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.sf.ca.us>.
• Information about Pretty Good Privacy, a freely redistributable public key cryptosystem.

Other items we can't quite classify

• Playbill On-Line's Theatre Central page, originally developed by Andrew Q. Kraft. "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.
• Some people want to make science fun... These people want to make science silly.
  • The Twinkies Project at Rice. See linearly accelerated Twinkies.
  • George Goble lights his grill using liquid oxygen.
  • The Strawberry PopTart Blow Torch
  • The Exploding Grapes
• Edupage, a column on information technology provided by a consortium of leading colleges and universities.