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Assorted Bits of Halloween
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?
a Goatse jack-o-lantern for the First Post?
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.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
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To all the other techie pagans out there.
Did you know that computer geek is the 2nd most popular job for neo-pagans?
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"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
Sorry to say it, but I have the patent on turning a pumpkin into tux. Ok, enough of my daily ranting about patents. That is a mighty fine jack-o-lantern though....
Here is one of the images - it shows the pumpkin with the linux penguin carved into it. Pumpkin
If you think that pumpkin is scary, you should see this one.
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Also check out the University of Rochester Computer Interest Floor's Linux pumpkin here.
David
Good stuff, if I do say so myself. (I did the carving...)
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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.
-Where there is blue screen, there is OWNAGE
/* Not very many movies are scarier than that. */
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Freddy Got Fingered.
Battlefield Earth.
I'm so scared of movies now that I just refuse to go.
If you were me, you'd be good lookin'. - six string samurai
One more cool Halloweeen link is Homestar Runner's pumpkin stencils:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/stencils.html
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
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.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Picture of my Tux I carved last night
...than having your webserver mysteriously detonate due to a good old-fashioned Slashdotting.
I'll be honest, we're throwing science against the wall to see what sticks. -Cave Johnson
On the chameleon link the smallest chameleon pic won't come up. In case anyone wants to see it, here is another link:Tiny Chameleon (bibliofile.mc.duke.edu)
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You bastards! No false advertising here. Just pictures of a pumpkin with a penguin cut into it, and some seperate pictures of one of those micro-pcs. Dammit, I spent 10 minutes trying to figure out how he got the thing into the pumpkin and why there weren't any pictures of it...
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Homestar Runner has stencils for anyone who is a fan without creativity in their body.
... yeah ...
My girlfriend thinks they're cute
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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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Paganism is just a loose word for a large variety of polytheistic, shamanistic, and mystical non-monotheistic religions.
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.
What are you talking about? Pagans have been around for 1000s of years, and predate all of the modern religions. Where do you think Christmas came from before the whole Christianity thing? Pagan holiday celebrating the shortest day of the year, and the return of the days getting longer.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him to eat and he will fish forever.
Everything that we associate with Easter, like the bunnies and such, come from pagan spring fertility rituals. Even the word easter comes from a Germanic pagan word, Oester, that is the name of such a fertitlity rite.
And, truth be told, Easter celebrations in most Christian denominations usually have no resemblance to the Jewish feast of Passover.
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There are also a ton of other pagan spring equinox festivals that have been blended into Easter. The biggest one is probably Attis, a pre-christian god who, oddly, was born of a virgin, died, and came back three days later. One-upping Christ though, he came back to life annually thereafter, rather than making his followers go through all of this tedious waiting for the apocolypse.
Actualy, they swiped the Samhain holiday from the Celts who were around since 800 B.C. From the entry at howstuffworks.com:
That's how.
.. You insensitive clod
I'm in Australia
Well some kids came around last night wanting candy, so we gave them a handful of what ever we had laying around.
Most stupidist thing ever, some people seem intent on us celebrating it, even Aussie TV shows doing halloween specials.... whats next thanksgiving?
"Go into the hall of mirrors and have a bloody hard look at yourself" - HG Nelson
Umm, as a Jew- Easter has NOTHING to do with passover. And Easter does have many pagan symbologies- the easter bunny is a pagan fertility symbol. SO are easter eggs.
So next time you send your kids out on an egg hunt, you can realize that you're sending a 7 year old girl out to find fertility symbols, only to come back and have her picture taken sitting on the lap of another giant fertility symbol. Pervert.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
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A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind, And the Renaissance - by William Manchester (Author)
WARNING: NOT FOR BORN AGAIN CHRISTIANS. YOU WILL BE OFFENDED!
Just look at the Irish.
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Exactly where do you think the name "Easter" comes from?
Perhaps the pagan goddess "Eostre", goddess of fertility? BTW, easter eggs, bunnies, hot cross buns, and lilies all have ties to this or similar goddesses of fertility.
To be fair, it may also come from the german "ostern" meaning sunrise. There's a fairly decent page about it here. Surf around if you want more info on ties between Easter and pagan rituals.
The fact remains that Easter is celebrated at about the same time as other celebrations in a multitude of other religions -- Passover in Judaism and spring equinox in pagan religions (which, frankly, may also have influenced Passover). Certainly various customs, current rulers, and "heathen" religions influenced both the Old and New Testaments in a direct manner. Anyone who thinks "paganism" is recent is merely showing their lack of knowledge in ancient religions -- Judaism (from which both Christianity and Islam are derived) was a small and relatively new sect 3-4000 years ago and struggled for its existence against a backdrop of much older and more popular religions. A lot of the prohibitions in Judeo-Christianity can be tied directly to festivals and rites from the time; while later on as they became more prevalent they began to co-opt the local festivals and rituals into their belief system.
If you haven't carved a pumpkin yet, here's a tip: A RotoZip spiral saw works perfectly on pumpkin rind. Probably a lot safer than throwing your weight into a dull old serrated knife, especially when the pumpkin's really tough. Since the saw pushes the chips down, it doesn't make as much of a mess as you'd think. You have to be careful not to overshoot where you're trying to cut.
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So, who's lantern has the most BogoMips and how did they cool it down after the overclocking?
Oh...they meant linux *carved* in the thing and not running. I thought it was one more platform to run on...
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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. :-)
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...the long-missing "cocoon" scene was edited back in brilliantly; now I know where Ripley was crawling up from when she returned to the escape pod! It fit perfectly; glad to see that scene put (back) in.
I am shocked and appalled that you failed to mention our Mac O'Lanterns!
:-)
There's also a tutorial there, so you can make you own very scary tech vegetables.
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Some of the coolest ideas for pumpkins I've seen yet:
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http://www.extremepumpkins.com/pumpkinphotos.ht
It was called the Saturnalia, a Roman festival. Christians made it the same time of year, so as to clash.
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Anyone who thinks "paganism" is recent is merely showing their lack of knowledge in ancient religions
Or merely an apt understanding of language.
There were no contemporaries to early Christians or Jews who called themselves "Pagans." There were Romans, Celts, Druids, Egyptians, and a slew of others, but no "pagans."
"Paganism" is a modern religion, which draws most of its tennets from inference and extrapolation from the historical record.
Easter occurs based on when Passover occurs. Easter is supposed to be a celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Things like the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs are "popular" rituals, similar to Santa Claus during Christmas, that were added to replace or emulate other spring time rituals.
Easter is basically the only "real" Christian holiday (along with Pentecost?). It is the most holy Christian holiday. Christmas was originally created to replace pagan "light" festivals. For many years, Christmas was denied by officials and made illegal to celebrate because it was seen as a pagan holiday. Only recently (in the 19th century, really) did Christmas become more popular.
That covers the two major Christian holidays - Easter, marking the resurrection of Christ, and Christmas, marking an attempt to assimilate various pagan light rituals. I can't think of any other "core" Christian holidays - most other holidays are not universal among the various Christian churches. Being a Congregationalist myself, I don't even know about any of the other "Christian" holidays. We don't even really make a big deal about Lent, which is really a part of Easter anyway.
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Since when is being offended by something a reason not to read it?
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After building their l33t pumpkin server, the geeks settled down to some D&D. After rolling a 26 and casting a spell of protection, a curious odor could be smelled wafting around the room. It wasn't the usual unwashed geek, it had a decidedly female scent.
They put down their die and walked toward the room with their pumpkin server. The door creeked open and a haunting sight was in their midst. Some of them passed out, others began weeping uncontrollably. The more dauntless of the group stepped closer, and closer to......
THE REAL LIVE GIRL!!!!!!! AIEEEEEEE!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Pumpkin carving is the best part of Halloween! Heres a link to my pumpkins from this year and last.
First up is the Max Payne Pumpkin i carved this year, followed by a pumpkin modelled after the chick on the back of the Vice City Map. Enjoy.
Was this scene actually missing from the original releases? Was it in previous VHS or TV versions? I could swear I've seen it before. I did read the movie novel as a kid before I ever saw the film, though, so it's possible I crossed signals from the story w/ scenes from Aliens and concocted that image for myself.
Also...
In older versions, when Brett is washing his face in the falling water just before he's killed, can you see the alien curled among the cables and stuff that hang from the ceiling ? This was one of several things that I couldn't tell if it was new footage or just detail I'd never noticed on the small screen.
Was Brett's death scene was shortened? I could have sworn there were a couple more seconds in the version I've seen previously where you see him, impaled, being lifted slowly into the air. In the new release, it's like he is just swept away.
Is it obvious in older versions that Ripley is experimenting with different gases when trying to drive the alien out of the shuttle bulkhead? This too could be a level of detail I just missed on the small screen.
Were there clips in the audio similar to how TV films are edited to silence offensive words, Particularly on god-damn? (Parker rejecting the idea of drawing straws for the shuttle is one place I noticed this).
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i just did a google search for goatse. among the original and copycat goatse pics, i found this one. i always wondered what i looked like when i first viewed the real goatse pic. this photograph speaks volumes. (don't worry, it's not dirty.)
r is d_AFTER_goatse.jpg
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Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
Not many people are afraid of the gynocologist, however. I suggest you make yourself a dentist or proctologist, Dr. Max Payne, Dr.Ferral Hinds or something.
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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.
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www.extremepumpkins.com Jig saws, sawzall, routers, road flares, and lighter fluid. Great site...
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The number 1 most popular job for neo-pagans is "unemployed, still living with parents"
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
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.
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The really frightening thing is that there are people who really believe in that demons and witchcraft stuff, and want to spoil everyone's Hallowe'en fun. This is so sad.
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Forget the name, but there's the writings of a monk in the British isles, on how to interpret the existing pagan holidays of the area to 'Christian ideals,' where many of our modern holidays really come from (down to the use of evergreen trees for Christmas, use of silver and gold lights, etc). Interesting read, really...
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My husband came home with a pumpkin 2 nights ago and I made it into a linux pumpkin. A picture of it is at www.stealthpegasus.com The plans for it were from www.pumpkinlady.com.
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You misunderstand me. Obviously, Christmas is about Christ and Christianity. However, a holiday at that time of the year was celebrated by "Pagans" (people not believing in God) a very long time ago. From what I understand, early Christians set their Christmas holiday at the same time, even though Jesus was not really born in December.
Druids starring Christopher Lambert. :)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
That can't be a linux pumpkin... it has a graphic interface!
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Never had the displeasure of seeing that one. Don't think I will, either.
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I was using a wallboard saw (used for drywall) with great success last night - the RotoZip would be better for more detailed work though.
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It seems that once somebody used a slice^H^H^H^H^Hmodule, nobody else seemed interested in the 'derivative product'.
Any pointers?
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Well, she's certainly going to be the most popular geek girl on the block after having a pic where you can see up her skirt posted on SLASHDOT!
Freedom: "I won't!"
You're supposed to dress up as something you're NOT for Halloween.
Why not dress up as someone who isn't batshit insane?
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Don't laugh, I saw the movie for the first time on Tuesday, saw it again today. Two others have confirmed that the cocoon scene was not present until this release.
I missed the alien up in the chains and stuff. Will take a look if I see it again.
Yes, Brett's death scene is shorter and less violent than the original where he was lifted. Some have told me other violence was curtailed as well.
Yeah, that scene was cut from the original, but some really spotty footage of it was released as a DVD extra. Scott blended it back in nicely; they must have done some digital enhancement to get it back in because on the DVD the sound was terrible and the image was sort of scratchy. It worked out great though in this release. It looks like he went with a yellow wash down below to match the yellow light hitting Ripley as she crawls back up.
You know, I don't know but I thought I noticed small differences too in this release. Of course, on the big screen, your brain focuses on different things that your eye catches, so who knows; maybe it was just the size and sound difference that makes such small things seem so changed.
It doesn't seem to make sense to me to edit "god damn" when it doesn't improve the rating, and considering the amount of gore and general horror, it really would seemed very trite. Again, who knows; I'd have to take notes and watch the DVD again hehe.
I've had some, it's not all that tasty. The best mixture of pumpkin and alcohol is a bit of pumpkin pie, and a cuba libre on the side. Trying to create a more convenient delivery mechanism for getting both pumpkin and alcohol causes problems.
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Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale is pretty good stuff.
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Guess it's a matter of preference. I tried the pumpkin ale, and didn't really care for it. Course, I'm not much of a beer drinker in general, so that may be where the issue comes from...
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That's what I was thinking, but you never know, some people are more easily excited than others...
Freedom: "I won't!"
Well, as the saying goes: born-again christians just need to grow up again.
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
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Why the fuck would we celebrate Thanksgiving? Or are you assuming Halloween is just an American thing (which it's not). Trick or treating started in the UK. And considering the union jack on the flag and the governor general leering down at us from the queen's ass, I'd say there's plenty of precedent for following the pommies' lead.
Halloween is shitloads of fun... if you're not a grumpy old fart.
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Why do programmers get halloween and christmas confused? Because OCT 31 = DEC 25