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I bet you didn't know this was hosted by MIT.

fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu

16 pointshenning10 comments

"hosted by" is a bit misleading. If things are as they were, it's easy for students to request foo.mit.edu. Looking at http://web.mit.edu/maps/networks/mit/mit-topology.pdf, 18.244 is E2 (Senior House).

To clarify this, (and yes, it still works this way), any student can request foo.mit.edu for their personal box (and bar.mit.edu for their other personal box, and so on). It's an automated system and there is usually not any moderation of hostname requests unless they would conflict with an existing MIT department.

This is a very Senior House sort of thing to put up. :P

    traceroute fuck-the-skull-of-jesus.mit.edu
    ...
    11  nox1sumgw1-PEER--207-210-142-234.nox.org (207.210.142.234)  49.015 ms  52.072 ms  53.086 ms
    12  B24-RTR-3-BACKBONE-2.MIT.EDU (18.168.1.26)  49.024 ms  50.020 ms  53.364 ms
    13  FUCK-THE-SKULL-OF-JESUS.MIT.EDU (18.244.1.102)  54.338 ms  55.264 ms  55.258 ms

definitely "hosted by".

edit: oops, didn't notice you mention senior house. anyway, in my book, on your network = hosted by you.

"Hosted by" as in "lives on the 18...* network", sure.

Didn't even know such indispensable iconoclasm was hosted anywhere. Tart, yes. But not quite "The Onion."

More surprising to me are:

• How slowly its tiny web pages load.

• How stuck its html is in cira 1998, now-deprecated tags.

• The anonymity - and the fact that the author doesn't

want credit for harpooning everyone from JC to pope to Clinton.

just fyi, the princess diana link is NSFW

funny!

i don't like this. simply due to the Jesus thing. It's wrong and someone has to say that it is. Has the media brainwashed the people at mit?

I did read it. Just clicking on the link I see making fun of GOD and I go no further. But this thread is nothing like the page. :/ thx

Please read the thread.

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