It seems that MIT has finally gotten back at Caltech for last year’s CPW antics, by stealing the Caltech Cannon and placing it in front of the Green Building, along with a giant brass rat — and just in time for CPW 2006, which I believe starts today. I have no idea how you move a cannon from Pasadena, CA to Cambridge, MA but everyone seems pretty certain that this is the real deal.
More photos are here, here, and here.
(Thanks to Usman for the heads up.)
Edit: Slightly more absurd pictures
Edit 2: College Cannon Coeds… and to think I used to live with most of these people.
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Colossus of Rhode 
MIT Cannon
This is totally awesome. It sucks that it happened just after my visit to Cambridge. I’m a beaver, you’re a beaver, we are beavers all. And when we get together, we do the beaver call:E to the U dU dX,