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Blogging Halloween: The Aftermath
 Halloween is officially over and the editors at our sister site ShoppingBlog.com have a Halloween Hangover. They carved the vomiting pumpkin pictured on the right yesterday. The pumpkin looks the way many people feel the day after Halloween. It's sad that Halloween has passed already and now the holiday madness is going to start. What makes it even more depressing is that the writers' stike is happening. This means bad things for tv shows, late night talk shows and movies. Hopefully, the strike will be short-lived. Here are a few final highlights from Halloween 2007.
Make magazine is running a DIY Halloween Pool to find the best costume.
CNET has a Halloween techie slideshow.
Brandsizzle posts about an L.A. Times article that says more parents are giving healthy snacks instead of candy. Would kids really go door to door for healthy snacks?
Bette Midler was in New York for her Hulaween benefit event. The event raised money for the New York Resoration Project (NYRP).
usr/bin/mom refuses to let Thanksgiving be forgotten.
Dick Cheney dressed up his dog as Darth Vader.
CraftyPod is already starting to focus on Christmas: "These days, I'm always a little glad to have Halloween done with, so I can get on to the thing that really tickles me - the Christmas season." There are only 53 shopping days - or decorating days - left until Christmas.
San Francisco's Castro district was relatively quiet.
This Where the Wild Things Are costume is very clever.
Leftover unwanted candy is something many are dealing with. Long, Slow, Beautiful Dance writes, "Everyone brings in their leftover candy to get rid of it-and it just sits there. Tempting everyone within sight."
Former Fat Guy suggests donating leftover candy to an outreach program in your city.
You could also sell your candy to a Utah Dentist who is buying Halloween candy from kids. The pay is $1 per pound of candy.
This guy went as a green roof.
The Daily Intelligencer reports that Union Square was scary on Halloween but not in a fun way.
Someone dressed up as the zombie kid from the popular "I Love Turtles" viral video.
A tip from Candy Blog: "If you're going to eat something, if you're going to set aside your calories, please, for the love of all that's good and tasty, eat something you like."
Paris Hilton appeared at yet another party - the Vegas Club LAX. This time she wore a skimpy military type of outfit. She gets paid lots for some of her partying. Britney Spears managed to find another unsexy outfit. Heidi Klum and Christina Aquilera had much better costumes. Links to more celebrity costumes can be found here.
These news anchors were really scared when a group of zombies stormed in.
Past Halloween coverage can be found here.
Posted on November 1, 2007
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Blogging Halloween Part II
Here are some more Halloween highlights from the blogosphere. This is the second part of our Halloween roundups - you can read Part I here. Happy Halloween!
Celebrity Costumes: Pleasant Morning Buzz has a roundup of this year's hottest celebrity Halloween costumes.
Pets Wearing Costumes: Most popular pet costumes | iReport pet costumes best of | Puplifedog | Croc eating a puppy | Princess Leia and Darth Vader | LOLCats | Good Housekeeping | Howloween Parade
Eggs are for eating not for throwing. Some store owners are not selling eggs to minors until Halloween is over.
Halloween Tax: Iowa slaps a tax on Pumpkins -- unless you are going to eat them. More details here.
Russia has banned Halloween - they think it is the "cult of death." Halloween was also condemned by Mexico's Catholic Church.
Vampire electronics are sucking your energy. Some tips for stopping these vampires can be found here (via ecogeek)
Here are some geek pumpkins. Still more geek pumpkins here.
A lot of bloggers are linking to the dog in the iphone costume.
Candy Blog says most people give out candy that they like: "The truth is that most people give out what they like at Halloween. So if you're getting Mary Janes or Popcorn Balls, it's probably because the giver likes them. This is pretty much true with ALL gifting, but especially with blind gifting. Consider that anyone who gives you something you don't like is following the Golden Rule. They're doing unto others as they'd like done to them. They're giving you Smarties or Starlight Mints because they would want to get them. Smile and say thank you."
Moms are great. They can make just about any kind of costume.
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton posted photos of people dressing up as him.
San Francisco closed a popular area of the city to discourage a giant Halloween street party. Portable toilets were still ordered.
Mashable has a list of twenty Halloween websites.
The Scariest Costume at Google: ChannelWeb reports that Brad Fitzpatrick, who founded Livejournal before leaving for a job at Google - showed up at Google dressed as Facebook. You can see his Facebook costume here.
Yesbutnobutyes has a list of Halloween logos. Another logo collection can be found at Smashing Magazine.
Alt Search Engines has a list of ten Halloween search engines.
Avoid the dancing skeleton game - it is malware. Play the silly Trick or Treat online game or one of several others found by Download Squad instead.
Some creepy candy. One of them is called Lick Your Wounds - it's candy made to look like scabs. (via Serious Eats)
Etsy ran a costume contest which had some terrific entries. You can see the winners here.
Some fake teeth called "Ugly Teeth" have been recalled. They were made in China and contain lead.
Yvonne Strahovski appeared in a Slave Leai costume on the geeky spy show Chuck. The episode also featured a two-person Dune sandworm costume.
President Bush joked that Dick Cheney was already wearing his Darth Vader costume.
Halloween is one of the most popular words right now on Twitter.
Posted on October 31, 2007
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Blogging Halloween Part I
 Spooky Halloween times are almost upon us. Some say it is the best holiday of the year even though we don't get the day off work. It will be a little brighter this year but that won't stop the fun. Below are some 2007 Halloween highlights from the blogosphere. You can see the archived entries from 2005 and 2006 in our Halloween section.
Costumes: Umbrella Bat | Lifebag costume? | David Suzuki | Master Chief | YouTube Page | iPhone costumes | Geico Caveman | Princess Mononoke | Michael Vick | Pine Car Freshner | Kraft single | LEGO costume | Bigfoot | Amy Winehouse | Dwight Shrute Bobblehead Costume | Miss South Carolina
Pirates, princesses and superheroes were the most popular costumes but Hannah Montana and Master Chief costumes topped searches.
ParentDish finds a horrific baby costume. ParentDish writes, "I wonder how many kids will burst into tears after seeing this little harbinger of extraterrestrial doom on their trick-or-treating route?"
Wired explains how you can dress up to look like the Reddit alien. Good luck
trying to look like Reddit's rival Digg.
Accidental Hedonist blogs about the value of Halloween candy: "In school, teachers would provide candy. The weekend before Halloween there would be a community parade where the local businesses would provide all participants under the age of 13 a bag full of candy. Then, on Halloween itself, you would go door to door to collect even more candy! All of the people who caused you such grief the rest of the year would suddenly just give you free sweets. For an eight year old, Halloween was the pinnacle of the Holidays."
Dave Winer is going disguised as the Invisible Man. "So what's left with Halloween? Uhhh, yeah you see there's the problem. So what I do on this holiday is find some friends who feel the same way and go out to dinner. If anyone asks what I go as on Halloween, I say 'The Invisible Man.'"
If you want you can have a ghost every day at Ghostcaps. (via YesButNoButYes)
Gothamist posts a scary looking Dick Cheney jack-o-lantern from a New Yorker cover.
Yahoo Buzz has a collection of links to costume ideas for procrastinators.
Dave Barry is dressed up as Larry Craig.
Geek idea: Give out tech treats instead of candy.
What's more scary than a tree that eats cows?.
Stereogum bags on American Apparel's costume builder.
BuzzFeed has an a list of links about downloadable Halloween masks.
Here's a list of horror stories from The Little Professor.
Best Week Ever has a list of ten topical costumes that people be wearing even though we wish they wouldn't.
The Halloween Awakening video has been popular on YouTube. Last year's Life and Death of a Pumpkin was even better.
YouTube returns over 6,000 videos if you search "Halloween costume."
Scott Adams on Halloween costumes: "When it comes to selecting my Halloween costume, I ask four questions: 1. Can I wear my glasses? 2. Does it cover my legs so I can pretend I'm dancing? 3. How difficult is it to take a whiz? 4. Does it allow me to be witty?"
A clever last-minute baby costume: Baby Einstein.
Horror films winning the Box Office: Saw IV last week and Halloween won which it was released prematurely. Cinematical describes some more screams for teens.
Hillary Clinton has been topping all the political polls. Unfortunately, for her she also topped a scary costume poll. There are many, many posts about this.
Someone always brings up poisoned candy fears this time of year. Lifehack.org's advice is don't panic and enjoy Halloween.
On Monster Crochet there is a crocheted saw scarf dripping blood (via Boing Boing)
Blogthings: What's your Halloween personality?
Complex Blog found that there was an Anna Rexia costume in some stores. It looks like the costume was pulled. (via Boing Boing)
Is your sexy Halloween costume perpetuating a stereotype?
Wired has an entry about how the online worlds are celebrating Halloween.
Caricature: Larry and Sergey dressed up as Ghoul'gle. (via Neatorama)
Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) makes a very scary Killer Clown.
Stephen Colbert explains this year's pumpkin shortage.
South Florida may have a soggy Halloween if the very un-Halloween sounding Tropical Storm Noel pays a visit. Technically, it is pronounced "Knoll" and not like the First Noel.
Michelle Malkin reports that some kids wore Captain Underpants costumes to school. Fark also has the story.
Some bloggers are pointing to JibJab's nifty feature that lets you put your face in one of two movies: Night of the Living Democrats or Night of the Living Republicans. Are undead zombie politicians more or less scary than real ones?
Consumerist blogs about a Halloween display at Wal-Mart that's scaring kids.
Gizmodo has a collection of stupid spooky furniture.
What does your choice of Halloween candy say about you?
Posted on October 30, 2007
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Blogging Halloween 10-31-06
YouTube has 17,000
videos tagged Halloween. Flickr has over 600,000 photos tagged Halloween. Posts on Technorati about Halloween
have climbed to nearly 25,000 posts a day now that Halloween is here.
This is what will
eventually happen to our meticulously carved pumpkins unless someone smashes
them first.
Halloween at
work. Did your coworkers dress up? Also, creepy jobs
(via Businesspundit).
Search Engine Roundtable has posted the Halloween search engine logos. Dogpile and
Yahoo also have special Halloween sections
with pre-configured Halloween searches. Search Engine Journal
lists all 7 years of
Google's Halloween logos.
Surf with a ghost mouse.
A tinfoil hat would make a nice last minute costume. Interesting
article there too on Good Morning Silicon Valley.
Pop Candy's best costumes of the day feature in three parts: 1, 2
3.
Even with Halloween approaching Hell.com won't sell for $1 million.
Smashing pumpkins by launching
them from a catapault. (via CR4)
Rick Klau grumps
about how long Halloween has become.
Halloween can be a scary time
for allergic kids.
eBay Deadbeats are another kind of zombie we do not welcome even on Halloween.
Just like PC Zombies they are not welcome even though this is Halloween.
Chaotic Utopia has some Halloween fractals.
Saw 3 is here and making lots of money. A Saw 4
is already planned for next Halloween.
Here is an Alan Turing pumpkin
(via Geomblog)
Is the cleaning skulls business for you?
Cosmos explains that if vampires
were real they would have quickly ruled the Earth.
Boing Boing points to
Halloween party photos from the Industrial Light and Magic.
A blogger at Shanghaiist watches creepy six-foot tall Singing Swedish Praying Mantis.
Busymom.net: "But, holy hell! Is it just me or is this Halloween costume thing getting out of hand, or what? I know there's not a shortage of sites lamenting the skinification of Halloween costumes, but, it's become something I have to deal with."
10 Costumes that are a bad
idea for air travel. Yes, the Osama costume is a bad idea for the airport.
(via Gadling).
The Thirteen scariest things
in IT. (via Crackers or nut)
Pets: Hopefully, the little black cats will be kept safe
from evil doers tonight. Some costumed pets can be seen here,
here,
here,
here,
here and
here.
Costumes: Cell Phone,
Flaming Carrot,
Zoidberg,
Subocean geotron costume,
Katamari Damacy and
Headless Marie Antoinette Costume (via Gizmodo)
Biohazard Halloween Candy
(via iFlipFlop).
You might want to have the little goblins and pirates sign a
Halloween
Liability and Indemnification Agreement (PDF File). (via NAM blog)
These special
exoskeletons give the person wearing super-human strength. They also look sort of Halloweenish.
AdWeek discusses a newspaper article that says Halloween might be
getting too sexy and gory.
Gawker has photos from a Nick Denton Halloween party
Cinematical posts
photos from the Rotten Tomatoes Halloween party.
A costume for a turtle
(via Bag and Baggage)
Nabaztag goes
trick or treating.
The boy who doesn't like costumes
because they make him into something scary.
The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog explains
the legal implications of egg throwing. Unfortunately, it is unlikely many potential egg throwers
are reading the WSJ Law Blog.
Stu Ostro remembers the Halloween storm, which later became the Perfect Storm.
Happy hippos get a pumpkin snack.
Bedazzled blogs a
vintage Halloween ad from a Sears, Roebuck 1965 catalog.
Engadget is running Ross Rubin's
poem "The Maven" again.
Feministing has a Feministing pumpkin.
Halloween flashers.
Dave Barry says we need guys on Halloween because without them there would be no one
to make candy cannons.
The colorful Harley Quinn costume is popular and often sells out at retailers. Some Harley Quinn costume photos are on Flickr. (via The Beat).
More Celebs: Brandon Davis can't get over that Lohan joke.
The Duff sisters in costume.
Lindsay Lohan is back with a jazzercise costume.
Robin Leach offers some celeb Halloween photographs.
Bill Maher's inappropriate costume.
Carmen Electra's skull scarf.
Kellie Pickler's favorite holiday is Halloween. John Travolta in drag -- not a halloween prank but still scary.
Other Halloween Roundups: Blogging Los Angeles, Searchviews, By the Way,
American Inventor Spot, and Overlawyered.
Our past Halloween coverage can be found here.
Posted on October 31, 2006
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Blogging Halloween: 10-29-06
GhostDroppings tells us
about Zombie Friends, a place for zombies.
Think Before You Carve: A short film shows that life is not
easy for pumpkins on Halloween.
The most popular costumes for adults are witches, pirates and vampires. Sexy costumes are also a trend. The pirate costume has become the procrastinator's costume of choice. Pirates are also the most popular in costume searches.
Halloween Politics: Lance Mannion is blogging about a right wing war on Halloween. Stephen King also turned political by calling the president and "out-of-control congress" scary. And here is a pumpkin with the word vote on it.
Halloween SoaP: Snakes on a Pumpkin
Woot has posted a collection of Halloween Flickr Find. Highlights
include these Superfriends and AT-AT costume.
Build a bottomless pit for Halloween. (thx Lifehacker)
Pumpkin Stuff: Test out your pumpkin carving skills on a virtual pumpkin. Learn how to heep your carved pumpkin fresh. (via Boing Boing). Make 3D pumpkin carvings. Here's a useful Pumpkins Squidoo.
Awesome robotic dalek pumpkin. (via Solonor's Ink Well)
These costumes really suck. (via WMFU)
Burger King Masks: Good luck getting a BK Mask now unless you are willing to pay a lot for shipping. If you have a belated Halloween party you still have time.
A couple of the good things on the Spooky Scary Zen include Spelling with Zombies and M&M's
Dark Chocolate game.
Defamer finds a silly sign warning about a $1,000 fine for Silly String.
A pumpkin for fast food lovers and a costume
for pizza lovers.
Halloween Food and Recipes: Boo-nilla Shakes,
Cockroach Cake, Kripy Kreme Pumpkin Donuts, Chocolate Cauldron, Spicy Pumpkin Soup, Halloween Cupcakes, Halloween CupKin PumpCakes, Snot Soup,
Gourmet Candy Corn and Cute Halloween Cupcakes.
Toronto zombies go for the "Thriller" World Record.
Dad's
message to people who stole his kid's pumpkins: "To whoever stole my kid's pumpkins! Thanks for ruining his Halloween you jerk! He grew them himself!"
(via Obscure Store)
A new cable network called FearNet launches on October 31st.
Hacked Gadgets blogs about how to build a pop-up tombstone. There's also a video.
More Costumes: Rubik's Cube, Pacman and Ghost (via SimpleBits), Project Runway costumes, Web 2.0 costume, Bird Nut,
Mr. T, Knight Rider, Godzilla, Rad Tie Fighter and Journo.
A photo of a Vox pumpkin from the Vox launch party.
Blogging Baby points to this site that tells you how to make ghoulies out of tampons. You can also make a tampon wig
there. Seriously.
If you really want to be cool this Halloween you will carve your pumpkin
underwater.
The plane crash Halloween theme is tacky,
disturbing and something idiots do for Halloween.
Kids rearranged Mom's Happy Halloween letter blocks
Krunker,
Teleread and Google Blogoscoped are discussing Google Book Search's Scary Stories.
The Google Blog is also discussing it.
These crawley spider cakes are great. (via Megnut)
Friends in Tech in presenting the The Server Room of Horrors 2006.
(thx Absoblogginlutely)
Costumzee will help you find costume ideas. More costume ideas at CostumeIdeaZone and Michaels.
The Simpsons have a Halloween zombie flash game.
Gizmodo claims all you need for Halloween is on this post.
Paul Davidson brags that he is going to be the coolest candy giver ever.
Celebs: Linday's Lohan's wore silk pajamas and Paris Hilton dressed up as a scantily clad police officer. Here's Billy Bob picking out a pumpkin. And Jerry O'Connell is dressed like Elmo.
TUAW blogs about the iTunes Halloween playlists.
Watchers Watch says The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror XVII" has the biogest buzz for Halloween specials. Saw III will probably do very well at the box office.
Sugar Shock Blog posts a cartoon about Halloween and sugar.
Get your kitty some colored claws for Halloween or because you don't want your cat to claw the furniture.
Wired wants your Freaky Geek Costumes. They are to be posted here on Flickr.
Help these bloggers decide what to be for Halloween: Frequent Citations,
Sages of Chaos,
Sunny Side Up,
Fair Trade Certified,
faeriefashion, 5x5 Equals, Hip Domestics and Monkfish Mandate.
Celebrity baby costume idea: Costumes based on celebrity kids and their parents.
Blogging Baby knows why you shouldn't give out pennies, raisins and smarties on Halloween.
Windows Zombie PCs are still the worst zombies of all.
Past Blogging Halloween posts can be found here.
Posted on October 29, 2006
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Blogging Halloween 10-23-06
Here are some Halloween highlights from the blogosphere.
Tech Costumes: You could go as a Mac. See Dress like a Mac for Halloween. You could also be an arcade game. (via Make Blog).
Costume Dont's: Hopefully, NO ONE will use Defamer's Borat costume idea. Why does MollyGood want someone to wear it? Kids should also avoid this costume. Queerty has more advice on what not to wear. Crocs are definitely out for Halloween according to Queerty.
Princesses, pirates and witches top kids' 2006 costume plans. Princess was also the #1 costume choice last year.
Find halloween events with GooGhoul. You could also try Halloweenmashup.com.
Make evil Lego minifigs. (via Neatorama)
Cinematical is running its second annual Halloween costume contest.
Fly Away Cafe suggests visiting a corn maze, like Sever's Corn Maze, for Halloween. There are some silly dancing Egyptians on that site.
This type of zombie is never welcomed, even on Halloween.
Web 2.0 Horrors: "What's really scary is that, in this early stage in the evolution of Office/Web/Work 2.0, we're scattering artifacts all over the net and there's no good way to keep track of it all."
Halloween Candy: Marshmallow Peeps on a conveyer belt. For a more
high-end candy try Godiva's Lucky the Cat. Here's some Halloween candy trivia.
Some homeowner thought a plane crash would make a good Halloween display. Wonder what the neighbors think?
Luxist suggests decorating with real skulls.
There is a stage performance of Night of the Living Dead according to Metroblogging Los Angeles. You can also watch it online for free.
Photojojo has some great photography tips for taking great Halloween photos.
Alison Bert at The Cost of Living blog offers some great Halloween costume tips. She also remembers winning funniest costume when she was 8: "So when I was 8, I put on a green turtleneck, green tights, my swim goggles and flippers and leap-frogged around the gymnasium murmuring 'Ribbit! Ribbit!' I won 'Funniest Costume' in the Greenbelt (Md.) Community Center Halloween Contest."
Librarian Avengers found a naughty librarian costume at Target. The costume has a name tag to make sure everyone knows you are dressed as a naughty librarian. (Via Librarian.net) Truthdig asks why do good girls go bad on Halloween.
Make white chocolate sugary skulls for Day of the Dead. More sugary skulls and Day of the Dead information here and here.
The ReadyMade blog points to everything on the Extreme Pumpkins website.
Miss Cellania discusses different types of Zombies as well as zombie games and zombie jokes.
Gigantic Jurassic sea monsters were truly scary.
Popgadget reports that iAttire is back with more iPod costumes. They had them last year as well. You can also make iPod costumes yourself but buying them is probably much easier.
The Cute Side of Halloween: Drawn says spookify your desktop using these cute Halloween icons from LittleRainey. New Halloween beanie babies are always cute. These Boo Bags from the ReadyMade Blog are cute too.
Tim Burton's Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D has been remade as a 3D version just in time for Halloween or Christmas - whichever holiday you feel like associating it with. A few blogs are discussing it.
TV Squad reports that Conan O'Brien will have an entire episode with skeletons instead of people.
Intricateart.com is launching a 2006 pumpkin carving contest. You can see the pumpkins from last year's contest here.
Thimble has found a variety of Halloween wreaths.
Metroblogging DC finds a creepy thirty foot tower of terror.
The myYearbook social network is already pimped out for Halloween. They are also beating Friendster in traffic.
Slash Food has found Ghoul Drool and other types of Haunted Hot Sauce.
Martha Stewart has Funny face pumpkin instructions. (via Hostess with the Mostess)
The BBC's Reporters Blog says the U.S. will spend more on Halloween decorations than on the upcoming midterm elections.
YouTube's Horrorfest has selected its four finalists.
There are some very creepy halloween supper ideas at I Make Projects including Eyes in Blood Sauce and Brain on a Plate. More recipes at Halloween Kitchen (via Lifehacker)
Freddy's Nightmare on Elm Street house is up for sale.
Capitol Hill Seattle has found they are the "it" place to find the best Halloween candy by using Zillow's heat maps. (via Zillow blog -> Scobleizer).
Pet Butler wants your Pet Halloween pics for a contest.
You can see all of our Halloween roundups, including the roundups from Halloween 2005, in our Blogging Halloween section.
Posted on October 23, 2006
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Blogging Halloween 10-31-05 Part One
Halloween was the #1 keyword on Technorati.
It is now bouncing around between #1 and #3.
Wilson's Blogmanac looks into the origins and folklore of Halloween.
Google uses Halloween to recruit scary smart peeeps.
Our GamersGame.com blog offers some links to online time killer games where you can kill zombies in monsters.
Beauty is in the maggot-infested eye of the beholder: Even the Beauty Blog
looks for Zombies
this time of year. The blog also offers this tip for people dressing up
as a Zombie: "Yes, I know there is nothing much beautiful about a zombie,
but if that is what you are, I want you to be the most beautiful
zombie you can be! ;-)"
Halloween Grammar: GrammarHell.com wants to make sure all the blogs say Jack-o'-lantern and not jack-o-lantern. "GrammarHell.com didn't carve a jack-o-lantern this Halloween. But it will put out a jack-o'-lantern. Halloween horror abounds as those with editors struggle with this ghoulish gourd."
Sploid
reports that unfun Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is urging citizens to not celebrate Halloween.
About.com's Urband Legends has a list of the scariest stories ever told.
PopSugar has posted some Paris and Nicky Hilton Halloween pictures.
The popularity of Halloween is growing in Norway.
Machina Memorialis blogs and photographs a flaming pumpkin inspired by ExtremePumpkins.com.
Throwing Food tells you
how to prepare pumpkin seeds.
Michelle Malkin has rounded up a few Halloween-related links.
Paperback Writer lists ten costume resources. We will have more Halloween coverage later this evening. Past coverage can be found here.
Posted on October 31, 2005
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Blogging Halloween 10-27-05
The Laughing Squid points us to the cool Life Size Mousetrap Halloween Shows.
Please help out these bloggers in need of costume suggestions: Candleblog, Jared Smith, Girlspoke, Maria,
Storm.lackluster.net, HoneyShambrooklee
Pumpkin Trend: white is the new orange.
Blogging Baby has posted a
Halloween recap of all their Halloween posts which include Spooky Kooky cupcakes, homemade costumes and DIY Halloween: Paint your belly.
Boing Boing discovers downloadable Star Wars paper masks.
A Kitty that was trapped in a newly constructed home for three weeks has been named Hal after Halloween.
Double Viking has a link to a
Flickr page showing the construction of a Star Wars AT-AT costume.
BrooklynVegan has a collection of Halloween links.
There's a Hallowmeme going around.
The Lazy Genius has found a Haunted Map that points to haunted locations overlayed on MSN Virtual Earth.
Inter alia has some Halloween links.
Make blog posts about a
resource that teaches you how to make your own crypt.
PCL LinkDump has some links to Halloween Audio.
Jackie has found an unusual Gremlin Pumpkin.
Halloween is The Sweet Spot's favorite holiday.
Squishilicious has made a Halloween blog theme even though Squishi says they don't
really celebrate the holiday in Australia. "The funny thing is, we don't even
'celebrate' Halloween in Australia to any real extent, but for the benefit of my American readers, and the fact that it was fun to do, i made it! It was a good learning experience." They should celebrate Halloween in Australia if they aren't already. Maybe some American expatriates celebrate it down under.
Gofrance.about.com says the popularity of Halloween is
climbing
in France. Why can't Australia make Halloween popular like France does?
The quiz finders at CNET have posted to a News.com blog a link to a quiz that tests how much you know about Halloween candy.
The Sun-Sentinel blog delivers the grim news that Halloween might be canceled in
Palm Beach County and other powerless areas in South Florida thanks to Hurricane Wilma.
Ghost Droppings has found some unique Dawn of the Dead knitted zombies.
Baking Sheet has recipes for Gingerbread Skeletons.
The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire has found a
Zombie Attack Survival Kit.
Daylight Savings ends day before Halloween. Don't forget to change
your clocks and sleep for an extra hour. Gary Said reminds everyone to send a Daylight Savings greeting card.
Our past Halloween coverage can be found here.
Posted on October 27, 2005
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Blogging Halloween
It's hip to blog about Halloween. Technorati, BlogPulse.com and
IceRocket.com all list over 200,000 posts for Halloween. Technorati
says there are about 60 new Halloween posts per hour. Tag wise Technorati shows over 1,000 posts tagged Halloween and IceRocket.com also lists over
1,000 posts tagged Halloween. Here's what some blogs are saying about Halloween:
Costumes: Boing Boing has found some dogs in bee costumes. If you have some time on your hands you can dress up like Dr. Octopus. Instead of going as an evil villian like Dr. Octopus, Cinematical links to this website where you can learn to dress like X-Men hero Wolverine. And for LEGO geeks, Make Blog points to a Lego minifig costume.
Our ShoppingBlog.com blog also has several costume-related posts including a post about the most popular costumes and posts about pet costumes here and here. And this post helps women decide whether their boyfriend or husband goes as Zorro or as a scary tree.
Blogging Baby loves blogging about Halloween. They have posts about halloween treat ideas, pumkin carving links, a halloween owl themed party and an entry about gotfog.com to name a few.
Zombies: Mister Snitch has collected some zombie news including an article about Pittsburgh's unpreparedness for a zombie attack. There are also Zombie Walks and Zombie Lurches.
Sustainablog found some political zombies at the Climate Mash.
Pumpkins: Blogaholics links to ExtremePumpkins.com where some very creative pumpking carving ideas are displayed.
For pumkin carving advice Lifehacker points to Pumpking Carving 101 which has tips, history, examples and the kinds of tools you need to carve pumpkins. Mr. Snitch links to this Flash presentation on pumkin carving. Practice all you want but it will be hard to beat the talented Pumpking Cutter that Antigravitas blogs about.
Need to find spooky events in your area? Use GooGhoul.
Boing Boing and other blogs are discussing the Head in a Jar Halloween decoration.
The Sweeney Family Horror blog discusses how they create their haunted house. Check out the Column Dweller prop.
The Whole Foods blog recommends raisins for Halloween but kids probably won't be as enthused by them as Whole Foods is.
Sure you have a costume but what about your iPod?
Iattire.net has iPod halloween costumes. (Via Yesbutnotbutyes.com).
J-Walk likes Martha Stewart's ladies fingers. We like these Boo-nilla shakes.
The Disney Blog has some Halloween ideas for Disney fans.
Flickr has a mere 42,000+ Halloween tagged photos. The most popular ones can be found here.
Some Halloween specific blogs include All Halloween Blog,
The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire and Ghost Droppings. Halloween Online Magazine has good articles, photos and a collection of techniques and tips for creating costumes and props.
Don't forget to stay safe this Halloween.
Filed in our Halloween Section.
Posted on October 22, 2005
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