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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: 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 10-31-05 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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