Those of you who have perused my About/FAQ know that when I think of “hacking” I am often thinking of the physical, practical joke kind of hacking, which is practically an art form at MIT. Thus, it was with sadness that I found a Slashdot posting about the closing of the MIT Museum’s Hall of Hacks. Prior to shuttering the exhibit, the museum held an Ultimate Hack Week. I have a feeling that the old hacks will be given a display area somewhere else on campus. They are too much of the school’s history to be gathering dust in storage. Of course, the most interesting hacks are fresh, live ones. I’m not sure what has happened recently at the ‘tute, since the online Hacks gallery seems also to be gathering dust. Either that or the students are concentrating on other things these days.