Assorted Bits of Halloween

It wouldn't be Halloween without a linux jack-o-lantern like the one submitted by h0mee, who writes "Just an amusing little Halloween set of pics. If you're curious about making your own, Buddy Moore provides us with a mini howto. For some spooky, fleener notes that the University of Texas at Austin's Digital Morphology Library provides X-Ray CT views of living and extinct vertebrates, like this full skeleton of a fruit bat or just its gnashing skull. Other spine-chilling notables include: the veiled chameleon, scaleless dragonfish, black cat, and the fearful pineapple. Lastly, BrGaribaldi noticed that Ridley Scott has re-edited Alien and is releasing it on Halloween in some lucky theaters. Not very many movies are scarier than that." Updated!

Update: 10/31 19:30 GMT by C : Barry sent in this one for you Apple lovers: "I saw your Linux jack-o-lantern, but how about this? The guys over at iPodHacks.com have actually carved an iPod into a pumpkin, creating the world's only iPod-o-Lantern. That's 7000 songs in your...pumpkin. Thought you might want to update the Halloween posting, as this is an ideal fit."

Also, David Clubb submits this achievement for your consideration: "Since it's Halloween, we at the University of Rochester's Computer Interest Floor decided to build a web server out of a pumpkin. We dissembled a 100MHz PII and placed it into a 54 lbs. pumpkin. It runs Gentoo and can be accessed here. Please don't Slashdot it too badly!"

And it just wouldn't be Halloween without the following, from a nameless submittor: "To quote the site, 'Extreme Halloween Fright.' A fairly comprehensive guide to making your pumpkin a bit more hi-tech using power tools, and perhaps the definitive pumpkin trepanning site." Pumpkins and powertools. How can you go wrong?

Comments

How about

[akedia]

a Goatse jack-o-lantern for the First Post?

Re:How about

[Gudlyf]

"goatse.cx is hosting that pic for today."

DEAR GOD MAN! You check the site for updates?! Methinks help is in order for you, young man.

Here's an easy way ...

[DogIsMyCoprocessor]

to get an entire gallery of horror!

Halloween IS

[BigDocJayster]

Scary.

For example... this is my first post EVER on Slashdot after being an observer for quite a few years now.

And going out on halloween is scary too... for example, I've never done the costume thing but my girlfriend has just called and has concocted some crazy plan which now boils down to me ACTUALLY THINKING about obtaining a chain saw.

Now friends, THAT is scary.

I s'pose this "first message" will gain no kudos from those who score these sorts of things, but beware... it is halloween.

Scary movies..

[Rinikusu]

/* Not very many movies are scarier than that. */

Freddy Got Fingered.
Battlefield Earth.

I'm so scared of movies now that I just refuse to go. :(

Black Cat, Bad Magic

[schnarff]

I posted this on deadly.org last year, and it got enough hits that I think the Slashdot community would enjoy it: a picture of my black cat "causing" bad magic. :-)

AMD pumpkin pie recipe

[wirelessbuzzers]

How to make a nice hot and crispy pumkin pie:

Ingredints:
large pumpkin
one mini-ITX motherboard.
200 watts of Power supply.
2 gigs of disk space
256 megs of RAM
2 gigahertz of Athlon
1 heat sink (large)
1 tsp heat-transfer jelly
1 CPU fan
Linux distribution (to taste)
Ethernet and power cables

Directions:
Mount Athlon on ITX; glaze with heat transfer jelly. Cover with heat sink and fan. Add RAM and disk space, and connect to power supply. Gently stir in Linux of your preferred flavor, paying particular attention to Apache.

Carve out pumpkin in an artistic design; roast the seeds in the oven for later use. Place computer in case^H^H^H^Hbaking pan, and insert into pumpkin. Connect power and ethernet cables.

Post to Slashdot and let roast for one hour or until brown around the edges.

Serves about 50,000.

And # 1 is

[blizzardsoup]

The number 1 most popular job for neo-pagans is "unemployed, still living with parents"