Spoofcard.com
Oh, this is a fun site. What Spoofcard.com does is allow you to block your telephone Caller ID and disguise your voice. Apparently they offer a service for folks who like to play practical jokes on their cellphones.
No, not really. Where this would come in handy is if you want to display your company phone number when making business calls from your personal phone. You can record the calls and play them back from spoofcard.com’s web control panel. Very nice!
If you aren’t into putting together a 555 timer and a comparator for a barebones audio distortion circuit Spoofcard.com could be a lot of fun.
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Halloween, in case you aren’t a history freak, is a remnant of pre-Christian rituals - a night when the spirits came back to walk among us, and a chance to make up for the wrongs we committed against them when they were alive. “All Hallows E’en”. It seems that the urban folks were converted to Christianity but that more isolated country folk - farmers and the like - maintained their pagan rituals in conjunction with the new religion. In some cases, the local church created a festival for some saint to coincide with the Pagan festival in order to try to absorb it. The Christmas tree and the Easter bunny and Easter eggs are prime examples of co-opted Pagan imagery.
We talk about this at our Solstice celebrations.
The point of religion is to give us the illusion of control over a world that we don’t understand. Rituals, magic, prayer, all of them are based on faith rather than on empiricism and an understanding of cause and effect.
Anyway, while you are out having fun, you are also helping to keep the Old Gods alive. Good job!
I highly recommend Sir George Frazer’s “The Golden Bough”. The original 12-volume set is a vast compendium of folk rituals, categorized, compared to similar rituals, and with commentary on their original meanings. The single-volume abridged version omits Frazer’s vast bibliography.
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