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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?

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

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