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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.

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Posted on October 28, 2008
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