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Blogging Halloween Part I
 This Halloween is more interesting because of the Presidential Elections that takes place just a few days after everyone recovers from their Halloween hangovers. It is also scarier this year because of reality. The stock market and the economy have been more frightening than any Halloween costume, decoration or horror movie. Here's a look at some of the trends and Halloween happenings online and in the blogosphere this year.
- This year's most popular costumes for Adults, Kids and Pets.
- Martha Stewart creeped out everyone with her odd baby costumes that made babies look like food - see here, here and here.
Parent Dish has some cuter non-food baby costumes here.
- The stock market is terrifying this Halloween and so are the higher prices
for costumes and candy.
- Sweet Candy Corn is a blog that's all about candy corn! (via Neatorama)
- Some people are going as jellyfish - maybe going as a jellyfish will be the most popular costume next year (unlikely).
- Spirit Halloween's mask sales have predicted the past three elections. Obama is selling more masks than McCain this year.
- Sony Ericsson has a confusing viral video Halloween contest thing for Facebook.
- Fights, Flights and Tights 3. is a contest for costumes of the crime-fighting variety. (via Newsarama)
- FearNet's 66.6 Second Film Festival has compressed a bunch of horror movies into 66.6 second videos.
- Flaming Pumpkins of Death - people send pumpkins on fire hurling through the air.
- Green Halloween. Treehugger and Green Options share some green Halloween ideas. Slate investigates how green Halloween is or could be.
- New Scientists shares a gallery of spooky space images.
- Eyeball Caprese: The healthy gourmet salad is turned into an evil Halloween dish. (via Shopping Blog)
- Gizmodo has a post about how to build a 3D Lego Pumpkin.
- The Black Widow looks like a delicious, creepy cocktail. A longer list of Halloween
drinks is available here at Drink of the Week. (hat tip Buzzfeed)
- These scare bears are creepy in an evil clown kind of way. (via Urlesque). J-Walk blog links
to yet more creepy dolls.
- Wired wants your geekiest Halloween costume.
- Yahoo Tech has a roundup of creepy and cool gadgets.
- Geeks you can transform your Macs into Mac O' Lanterns (via Popgadget)
- AOL plans to delete some of its users content on Halloween.
- Endless Simmer has posted some food costumes that are cute and weird. (via Neatorama)
- Spooky storage - store your files in flash Skull USB drives.
- Hot for Words explains in a video how Halloween got its name.
- Think Geek also has some creepy zombie dolls.
- Political Pumpkins: Obama pumpkins at Yes We Carve, Zombie pumpkin patterns and political pumpkins on Flickr. More links here at Buzzfeed.
- Gawker has a post about Sarah Palin costumes.
- Hungry for some Awful Edible Roasted Fleshworms? Mental Floss has a roundup of Gruesome Halloween Party Food.
- Some celebrities will likely experience Halloween Fail this year but last year's FAIL by Heidi and Spencer will be hard to top.
- A list of eight Halloween picture books.
- At least we know Halloween won't fail despite the scary economy.
- The parade scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is being recreated at the Village Halloween Parade.
- Gizmodo blogs about an interesting DIY haunted Ouija board project.
- At one point it looked like sex offenders in Maryland would have to post signs that say "No Candy at This Residence." It now appears that the law was blocked.
- How to make a breakaway tombstone for your home movies or your yard.
- How to make a Marshmallow Peeps Graveyard Cake.
- These night vision goggles could come in handy on Halloween night.
- Artist Daniel McDonald does the Monster Mash.
- Make a pumpkin with light-sensing LED eyes (via Dvice).
- Make has instructions for making a creepy Mechamo Crab.
- A man's 450-lb pumpkin was stolen.
- An entry on Boing Boing explains how to make a brain out of a watermelon. The photo looks creepy enough but will it look too watermelon-like in person?
- This is a video of a very creepy Halloween window animation that someone put up last Halloween. (via Neatorama)
- Double Viking has pictures from a Zombie pin-up calendar.
- There's a Blog in my Soup explains the connection between
pumpkin carving and successful blogging.
- Instead of regular cupcakes you can make some pumpkin-shaped cupcakes.
- Coed Magazine has a collection of sexy costume-less costumes that were painted on. There's some painted-on costumes here as well.
- Some of the Halloween Special Effect lenses are very cool. Note: The American Optometric Association (AOA) is warning consumers about the risks of wearing decorative contact lenses without a prescription from an eye doctor. They could damage your eyes.
- Make your own monster with the San Antonio Express-News' Monster Maker. (via Pop Candy)
- Miss Cellania has a collection of Dracula and Frankenstein links.
- Mr. Bones Pumpkin Patch is drawing in all the celebrities again this year including Britney Spears,Tori Spelling, Gwen Stefani, Heidi Klum,Courtney Cox, Gavin Rossdale and Tobey Maquire.
- The AAA has some good Halloween safety tips for partygoers and trick-or-treaters on Halloween.
You can see the previous Blogging Halloween entries from 2005, 2006 and 2007 here.
Posted on October 28, 2008
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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 10-31-05 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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