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.
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