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Assorted Bits of Halloween

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-laugh-at dept.

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?

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  1. slashdotted, but I pulled an image off by pbranes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is one of the images - it shows the pumpkin with the linux penguin carved into it. Pumpkin

  2. Fweaky! by daeley · · Score: 3, Informative

    One more cool Halloweeen link is Homestar Runner's pumpkin stencils:

    http://www.homestarrunner.com/stencils.html

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  3. Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida by Skyshadow · · Score: 3, Informative
    Pft, that ain't shit. Look up the origins of easter sometime.

    Truth be told, the Christian holidays are all just swiped from preexisting pagan observances -- it's actually a fairly creative (and purposeful) way to stamp them out.

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  4. Homestar Runner by LoudMusic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Homestar Runner has stencils for anyone who is a fan without creativity in their body.

    My girlfriend thinks they're cute ... yeah ...

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  5. Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida by mark-t · · Score: 1, Informative
    Uhmmm... actually Easter has its origins surrounding a Jewish holiday/celebration called the Passover. Last time I checked, Judaism wasn't considered "pagan".

    But afaik, you're right as it pertains to every other so-called "christian" holiday. Like most rules, I guess there just had to be at least one exception.

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  6. Re:Happy Samhain by Dracolytch · · Score: 2, Informative

    #1 job is... Student! (Hey, I fit both of those!)

    This was in a paper "Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States".

    My reference can be validated via the Washington Post Here

    ~D

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