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This is awesome. If the six-page detailed write up is too time consuming, there’s a 4 minute summary video on page 6. But I think the beauty is in the details… humorous and well-written, I enjoyed every word.
The most ambitious prank in history. We hacked the Super Bowl.
You’re about to read a real-life heist story. Super Bowl XLI was a Level One national security event, usually reserved for Presidential inaugurations. We had to get two full vanloads of materials through federal marshals, Homeland Security agents, police, police dogs, bomb squads, ATF personnel, robots, and a five-ton state-of-the-art X-ray crane. It took four months and a dozen people to pull off the prank that ended up fooling the world. This is the Super Stunt.
Don’t just sit there. Well, unless you’re reading this…
(Via Kottke.)
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Hey, if you live in Boston (or anywhere you just had a big snow dump followed by a big rain dump) go get your boots on, grab a shovel, and just clean out your catch basin grates. Right now they’re covered by several inches of heavy slush, and all this rain is just going to pool up in to a giant street-lake. It’ll take you maybe twenty minutes, but it will pay dividends for the next week or two when we’re still dealing with all this water. If everyone just claims responsibility to the basin closest to their house, then we’ll all reap the collective benefits.
I’m out in Medford, and spent an hour to clean out the one in front of my house, and the one across the street (she wasn’t going to do it) and cleared some paths through the slush from the roadway to the drain. Every time someone drives by, they push more water down the drain, effectively squeegee-ing the street.
Go and pitch in!
PS – if you have opposite side of the street parking, and you’re on the wrong side of the street, go dig out and move. If the plows can go through where you’re parked, they’ll do a hell of a lot better than cars just driving down the street. Oh, and I hope you got a ticket.
