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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. How about by akedia · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:How about by Gudlyf · · Score: 4, Funny
      "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.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Here's an easy way ... by DogIsMyCoprocessor · · Score: 3, Funny

    to get an entire gallery of horror!

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  5. 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

  6. Another Linux pumpkin by bamberg29 · · Score: 3, Interesting

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

    David

  7. 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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  8. Halloween IS by BigDocJayster · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  9. Scary movies.. by Rinikusu · · Score: 4, Funny

    /* 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. :(

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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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.

  14. Black Cat, Bad Magic by schnarff · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  15. AMD pumpkin pie recipe by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  16. And # 1 is by blizzardsoup · · Score: 5, Funny

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