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All Hallow's Eve

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trick-or-treat dept.

It seemed like a shame to delete all the Hallowe'en submissions coming in today, so let's see if we can figure out something useful to do with them. Tonight is a full moon, which is a bad thing if you happen to be around animals. Several readers sent in Mac O' Lanterns of various types. One soul sent in a Jack O' Linux. This guy carves big pumpkins (be sure to click the arrows to see the finished versions). And if all else fails, bring out the Gimp.

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  1. Not just a full moon by rant-mode-on · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Its not just a full moon, its also a blue moon (2nd full moon inside a calendar month). The first blue moon on Halloween since 1955.

  2. Not only a full moon tonight... by 4mn0t1337 · · Score: 5, Informative
    It is really a Blue Moon.

    From the article:
    what's so unusual about a blue moon on Halloween is that it last shone over California in 1944. And there won't be another until the year 2020

    And:
    The blue moon was originally defined by the Maine Farmer's Almanac in 1819 as an extra full moon within any season. Later, however, the respected publication Sky and Telescope altered the almanac's definition and since then it has come to mean the second full moon within a single month.

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  3. Kernel Panic Pie by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 5, Funny

    10-31-2001 Duuude, me and my buds have a great idea -- we took our machine and put it in a pumpkin -- we call it "Jack-O-Linux" get it? Linus would be proud!

    11-04-2001 JOL (Jack-O-Linux) has begun to smell. I'm beginning to regret not putting in a fan as playing Quake tends to heat it up quite a bit and makes the rotting stench almost unbearable... should've used a Crusoe.

    11-06-2001 JOL caught on fire today. I think a piece of rotting pumpkin flesh fell onto the sound card and caused a spark... I'm not really sure though, as I'm afraid to look inside the pumpkin.

    11-07-2001 Fabreeze doesn't work on pumkins

    11-09-2001 The JOL exploded today as I was browsing slashdot. Apparently the Methane inside the pumkin built up to critical levels. Now my room smells like an odd mixture of farts, pumpkin pie, ozone, and death. Funny thing though -- JOL still boots.

    11-10-2001 Drinking with my buds tonight we came up with a great idea: B-E-O-W-O-L-F..

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