Assorted Bits of Halloween 226
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?
How about (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How about (Score:1)
pumpkin PC case (Score:2)
Re:How about (Score:1)
Re:How about (Score:5, Funny)
DEAR GOD MAN! You check the site for updates?! Methinks help is in order for you, young man.
I was wondering (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:I was wondering (Score:1, Insightful)
too bad, though, that not many people are neighborly anymore...
Re:I was wondering (Score:2)
Simple, it's Halloween, an evil, pagan holiday. Asking for handouts, taking candy from strangers, egging and TP'ing houses, dressing ridiculously or even cross-dressing, scaring people for no reason, and listening to Michael Jackson. All terrible things to do regularly, but they're all accepted and even encourage
Re:I was wondering (Score:2, Funny)
I must disagree. There is no holiday, however evil or pagan, that makes listening to Michael Jackson ok.
In fact, I can't think of ANY event, however profound, that could justify something like that.
Re:I was wondering (Score:1)
Why do we yell that fast food is bad for us yet we still eat there?
Why does America "liberate" Iraq because they had a WMD program when we have nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons being developed right now?
It's called hypocrisy, the American way of life!
Re:I was wondering (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I was wondering (Score:1)
BTW, I agree that the goatse.cx-o-lantern [consumptionjunction.com] is the funniest thing in ages -- certainly the funniest since the Steve Ballmer and Ellen Feiss-o-lanterns [geekculture.com] from last year
Happy Samhain (Score:5, Interesting)
Did you know that computer geek is the 2nd most popular job for neo-pagans?
~D http://www.modernwiccan.com
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:2)
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:2, Informative)
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 [washingtonpost.com]
~D
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:2)
Tim
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:1)
Take it easy, have a sense of humor.
And # 1 is (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:2)
And the #1 job for neo-pagans on the Slashdot Top 10?
A waiter/waitress at Medieval Times! (Remember, they don't have forks in Medieval Times... more Pepsi?)
Re:Happy Samhain (Score:1)
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 [washingtonpost.com]
~D
Here's an easy way ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Here's an easy way ... (Score:2)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
The sweaty dancing monkey man is out to steal my Linux box!!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re:Here's an easy way ... (Score:2)
Re:Here's an easy way ... (Score:2)
That's how he cools himself. If he doesn't stick his tounge out, he starts sweating uncontrollably.
Re:Here's an easy way ... (Score:2)
Uh oh.... (Score:1)
slashdotted, but I pulled an image off (Score:4, Informative)
If you think that's scary (Score:1)
Another Linux pumpkin (Score:3, Interesting)
David
Re:Another Linux pumpkin (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't miss the iPod carved into a pumpkin!! (Score:4, Interesting)
Good stuff, if I do say so myself. (I did the carving...)
blakespot
Re:Don't miss the iPod carved into a pumpkin!! (Score:2, Funny)
Halloween IS (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Halloween IS (Score:1)
Now THAT is scary.
I suppose I have just diluted the value of obtaining a "2" although this is not scary.
Only sad.
Game over.
Scary movies.. (Score:5, Funny)
Freddy Got Fingered.
Battlefield Earth.
I'm so scared of movies now that I just refuse to go.
Got you beat.... (Score:2)
Highlander 3
I got one up on you (Score:2)
Fweaky! (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.homestarrunner.com/stencils.html
Re:Fweaky! (Score:2)
One more cool Halloween link would be this: Homestar Runner's pumpkin stencils [homestarrunner.com]
THE Best Costume! (Score:1)
Here is my Tux Pumpkin (Score:1, Interesting)
Ain't nothin' scarier... (Score:2, Funny)
Worlds smallest Chameleon (Score:1)
goddammit (Score:3, Insightful)
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...
Re:goddammit (Score:1)
It's running Win95, though. Scary!
Homestar Runner (Score:5, Informative)
My girlfriend thinks they're cute
need assistance with my costume (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:need assistance with my costume (Score:2)
Re:need assistance with my costume (Score:1, Funny)
dress up like a Priest and tape 2 pairs of boys underwear to your arm....
you're a catholic priest on the patch.
Names (Score:3, Funny)
Dr. B. Ed Clam
Dr. I. C. Cervix
Dr. S. Natch
Re:need assistance with my costume (Score:2)
Captain Hook, OB/GYN
Dr. Muffenstuff. (Score:2)
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.
Re:need assistance with my costume (Score:2)
Or
Beleive the hype [amazon.com] and stay home listening to this product of obviously deranged minds. You'll thank yourself for it.
Kurt Cobain was here but Doc Oc has novacain...
Re:need assistance with my costume (Score:2)
Re:need assistance with my costume (Score:2)
I think we have a winner (Score:2)
Crack O Lantern (Score:2)
We don't celebrate that crap... (Score:1)
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?
Re:We don't celebrate that crap... (Score:2)
If you want some background on the Celtic (and eventually Christian) origins of All Hallows Eve and All Souls' Day there's a really good (and long) explanation here [cultureplanet.com], although I dunno how much longer after Halloween it'll stay up.
Hey there Mr. Furry (Score:2)
Why not dress up as someone who isn't batshit insane?
Tim
Pumpkin Carving Tool (Score:2)
Also, wallboard saw (Score:2)
How many BogoMips? (Score:1)
Oh...they meant linux *carved* in the thing and not running. I thought it was one more platform to run on...
Where is the BSD carving patterns? (Score:1)
Black Cat, Bad Magic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Black Cat, Bad Magic (Score:2)
Saw Alien last night... (Score:1)
Re:Saw Alien last night... Directors Cut Questions (Score:2)
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 cur
Pogue Pumpkin, Woz O'Lantern, Balmer too! (Score:1)
There's also a tutorial [joyoftech.com] there, so you can make you own very scary tech vegetables.
The BEST pic of a pumpkin that I've ever seen... (Score:2)
blakespot
Re:The BEST pic of a pumpkin that I've ever seen.. (Score:2)
Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale is pretty good stuff.
blakespot
Extreme Pumpkins! (Score:2)
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/pumpkinphotos.ht
Scary Story (Score:3, Funny)
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!!!!!!! [rochester.edu] AIEEEEEEE!
Popular girl (Score:2)
heh, yeah (Score:2)
google search for goatse (Score:2)
http://www.cellosoft.com/nash/garbage/photos/ch
AMD pumpkin pie recipe (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Much better pumpkins/power tools site: (Score:2)
Featured in local papers, and now on CNN.
ALIEN has a resident evil teaser.... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
Heresy! (Score:2)
Whoops! I mean... er... uh... hey, look over there, Ogg Vorbis!
Open Source Pumpkin Pie (Score:2)
It seems that once somebody used a slice^H^H^H^H^Hmodule, nobody else seemed interested in the 'derivative product'.
Any pointers?
If anyone's wondering about that blurry PC (Score:2)
http://www.dfiusa.com/products/
Late but still good (Score:2)
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2, Informative)
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.
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:3, Insightful)
And, truth be told, Easter celebrations in most Christian denominations usually have no resemblance to the Jewish feast of Passover.
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
So what? It's actually based on the actual events of the crucifiction. Jesus was hanging on the cross and he called his diciples to him and said: "So guys, how are you going to celebrate this in the future." Peter, having sipped a bit to much to the blood of his lord the day before, said "Well, uhh, we could, uhh, you know ... paint some hardboild eggs."
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:1)
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
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.
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
Easter occurs based on when Passover occurs. Easter is supposed to be a celebration of th
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:1)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031
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!
Looking at it the wrong way (Score:2)
Just look at the Irish.
Re:Looking at it the wrong way (Score:2)
'Embrace and extend'? (Score:2)
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...
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:1)
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
Actualy, they swiped the Samhain holiday from the Celts who were around since 800 B.C. From the entry at howstuffworks.com [howstuffworks.com]:
Re:Reminder of the original purpose of this holida (Score:2)
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 [religioustolerance.org]. 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 mu