This Sign Has Been Hacked
Stuff like this is why I love working in the MIT neighborhood. On my walk to the T from work, I saw this sign on Vassar Street in front of the Stata Center. It was cycling between a message that the Mass Ave bridge will be closed from 6 am – 3 pm on Sunday, and that the sign had been hacked. Granted, it could have been more clever, especially considering that it’s going to be closed because a new Kevin Spacey movie is shooting there. Still, plain old technical chops and the chutzpah to pull it off go a long way sometimes.
I also shot a little movie, which is up on YouTube.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
“This video is no longer available.”
April 19th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Ya, it takes a minute for YouTube to process it. Apparently.
I’m a YouTube Noob.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:33 am
I’m not seeing it either and yes it could have been more clever.
“Ceci n’est pas une bomb” would have been nice.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:54 am
I don’t know what the story with the video is– it had all night to process. It looks like it’s at least showing the first frame now. I am guessing that YouTube’s processing power is currently swamped with people watching the Virginia Tech kid strut his munitions.
Speaking of which, “Ceci n’est pas une bomb” would only be funny if it actually were a bomb, in which case it would not be funny. Especially considering that MIT really has had some awful cases of violent self-destruction.
I was just thinking something along the lines of “Bridge closed for Kaiser Sose”.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Boston PD’s reaction to the mooninites was the first thing that popped into my head but in retrospect no cop would mistake a traffic sign as a “mysterious device” so the joke doesn’t really work anyway.
April 21st, 2007 at 9:41 am
The traffic sign is the same basic concept as the “mysterious devices” A bunch of light bulbs in a frame. Now then, if the MIT kid had hacked it to look like Ignignokt flipping the bird, that would have been truly epic.