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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. I was wondering by Pingular · · Score: 5, Interesting

    how come on 364 days a year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers and certainly not to take sweets from them, but on one day of the year we actively encourage it? Such is our modern society.

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    When anger rises, think of the consequences.
    Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
  2. Happy Samhain by Dracolytch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To all the other techie pagans out there.

    Did you know that computer geek is the 2nd most popular job for neo-pagans?

    ~D http://www.modernwiccan.com

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    This sig has been enciphered with a one-time pad. It could say almost anything.
    1. Re:Happy Samhain by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 2, Interesting

      To call yourself a "neo-pagan" requires much too self-aware an assertation for your religion. It sounds like not something you believe in so much as something you settled on accepting in order to have a label.

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      "Sufferin' succotash."
  3. Another Linux pumpkin by bamberg29 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Also check out the University of Rochester Computer Interest Floor's Linux pumpkin here.

    David

  4. Don't miss the iPod carved into a pumpkin!! by blakespot · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Check out the iPod carved into a pumpkin at iPodHacks.com. Several different resolutions of this wallpaper image are available to download.

    Good stuff, if I do say so myself. (I did the carving...)


    blakespot

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    -- Heisenberg may have slept here.
    iPod Hacks.com
  5. Here is my Tux Pumpkin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Picture of my Tux I carved last night

  6. need assistance with my costume by G27+Radio · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I needed to come up with a costume idea on short notice this year. I have a friend that's an RN, so she hooked me up with some scrubs and a stethescope.

    What I'm still trying to locate is a scan of a Cedars-Sinai ID badge. If I can't find one, I'll just fake it.

    The other thing I could use some help on is thinking of a clever name for a gynecologist. Someone here has got to have some ideas.

  7. ALIEN has a resident evil teaser.... by johnpaul191 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I saw Alien on wednesday when it first opened here (Philly) and first off there was a teaser for the next Resident Evil movie. wooohoooo! It's also on Apple's site if you want to watch it on your computer (Quicktime required). There is also some teaser/featurette for the upcoming ALIEN VS PREDATOR on the site.

    As for Alien, it was awesome.... if you don't like the movie, then you might not like it no matter what, but i was 5 when it first came out and to see it in a theater with the bonus stuff in it was fun. It was amusing in a way with the 1979 technology, like flourescent lights that stutter when they come on and computers that make beeps and clickity clack noises. All that aside, I WISH MORE MOVIES USED MORE REAL MODELS AND LESS CG! Generally i am not one to gripe about CG, but the few scenes where the alien is hiding and they pan right over it ..... that just can't come across in CG the way a physical model can. YIKES!

    no, it's not the scaries movie of all time, but if you are going to nitpick on every detail of a movie, then you are no fun anyway. even so i have seen this movie a few times on TV/DVD/VHS and knew mostly was happening when..... it was still sooooooo worth my $8.00
    i realize by Alien3 or Ressurection the stuff they had the aliens do just could not all be puppets anymore, but dang they really are so much creepier......


    on a side note KILL BILL used no CG in the movie, all wires, rubber, plastic and 400 gallons of fake blood. nice to see some people keeping it old school.