A short and dirty Python script to decode MIT's blog post written in binary.

decode_mit_blog_binary.py

def group_by_n(line, n):
    if line == "":
        return []
    elif line[0] == " ":
        return [" "] + group_by_n(line[1:], n)
    else:
        return [line[:n]] + group_by_n(line[n:], n)

with open("post.txt") as fp:
    final_string = ""
    for line in fp:
        groups = group_by_n(line, 8)
        for char in groups:
            if char != " " and char != "\n":
                final_string += chr(int(char, 2))
            else:
                final_string += char
    print final_string