Here’s another roundup of Halloween creeps and treats from the blogosphere. Part 1 is here and entries from past Halloweens can be found here.
This Dark Knight pumpkin is cool and scary. Another
scary pumpkin is the Stock ticker pumpkin which looks more like it could be a bomb. Kotaku
has a collection of gaming pumpkins that are not scary.
ShoppingBlog.com has a summary of this Halloween’s themes and trends.
Play an online game called Cat Bowling.
Fairytale pumpkins are a popular pumpkin variety
this year. They have a a cinderella shape and a buckskin color.
Eight Halloween costumes that will scare
environmentalists.
Four last-minute printable Halloween candidate masks can be found here (via
DesignFloat.com). Forbes.com has masks of some celebrity and media people.
Facebook prepares for people to deliver truckloads of Halloween
photos over the intertubes.
Some online and digital Halloween treats can be found on Yahoo Tech Adviser and
on Mashable.
Halloween is the fastest growing greeting card-sending occasion.
Today’s Google doodle was designed by Wes Craven. Wes Craven has been busy on YouTube as well.
Adorable photos of animals with pumpkins. (via Slashfood)
It’s alalert scary out there for investors - these four economic demons from Fool.com won’t help.
JibJab has some Halloween sendables here - just upload your face.
Zombie Babes terrorized the streets of New York.
Ecorazzi has a list of vegan-approved candy.
It’s probably too late this year but next year you could scare people by turning a room into a vortex tunnel.
How to look like like Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.
Nom Nom: Mummy cupcakes, Crawly Cakes,
Spiderweb cookies, Fried Spiders, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cupcakes, Pumpkin Tortilla Soup and Popcorn Brain Balls. There is also collections of
Halloween cupcakes here and here.
Disney is growing Mickey-shaped pumpkins.
Safety tips for trick-or-treating from the Candy Dish Blog.
Gothamist found a heavily decorated haunted house.
A rant against the grotesque and unwanted Halloween hanging trend.
In London’s Regent Park some kitchen utensils and cookware were used to make a creepy looking skull.
A brief history of Halloween from Greeting Card blog. National Geographic explains the origins of Halloween treats.
Deadly Macintosh virus caught on film.
Buzzfeed has a list of Internet meme costumes
including Helmet Cat.
You can see a couple crafty ideas from Cookie magazine in this video.
A beautiful amazing mech costume.
Cockeyed.com has a list of some Halloween
candy codes that can be left in chalk in front of the houses.
Bruce Springsteen posted a Halloween song on his website called “A Night With The Jersey Devil”.
Tor.com has an article by a writer who hates horror.
The Southwest Airlines CEO croudsourced the idea for his costume - see his blog enattempt here.
Learn how to make fake blood.
Music: 10 Hip-hop songs for Halloween and 15 mood songs for Halloween.
Celebrity Costumes:
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Media columnist Phil Rosenthal has a new blog on chicagotribune.com called Tower Ticker. Rosenthal’s post describing the new blog can be found here.
It’s called “Tower Ticker,” which from December 1948 to October 1981 was the name of the Chicago Tribune’s popular people column. This isn’t that. It’s more an expansion of the Tribune column I have been writing for the last 3½ years (and, in some ways, the Chicago Sun-Times and Los Angeles Daily News columns I wrote for two decades before that). But I liked the name, the handle was available and worth dusting off for a revival.
He also linked to a Monkees video on YouTube in the post but then apologized for doing it.
Rosenthal’s blog has an interesting
entry titled “A paper without paper is still a paper.” The post is about the
Christian Science Monitor’s recent decision to scale back on print from daily to every seven days and to focus more on the
website. A lot of journalists like Rosenthal now have blogs and a lot of newspapers are folding or curtailing print editions to focus on the web. It’s still the same news and opinion but the format and
technology is changing. What’s happening is basically what was being predicted a couple years ago.
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One typical blog visitor would be someone searching for a keyword using a search engine (google, yahoo or whatever). If they find that keyword in your blog they’d naturally click to you and have a rapid browse acircular on what you have written in relation to their search keyword. It would be awesome if you can keep that visitor as long as you can. The only way to do it is to help him with his search now wouldn’t it? Fortunately we have a plugin that could help you help them.
Landing Sites.
This is a plugin that will allow you to show related posts based on your visitors search keyword. Kinda like “You looked for this, now here it is, and here are other things that maybe related to your search too”. Here’s a sample screenshot:
Installations are a snap, you just download the files and upload it to your plugins directory. After which, you need to insert a 5-line PHP code anywhere on your site, preferably on the top lot where the searchers could easily get it.
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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 minquire 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 thcoarse 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.
- Wiruddy 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 minimum 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.
You can see the previous Blogging Halloween entries from 2005, 2006 and 2007
here.
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