Halloween Links

A List of Halloween Horror Movies and TV Show Marathons. My kids will be on sugar overload, fighting over the Travel Channel vs. Cartoon Network.

The Horror of Trick-or-Treat.

Ten Epic Halloween Costumes. How will yours compare at the local costume contest?

I vant to suck your broccoli: 23 unusual vampire variations. (via Gorilla Mask)

Top 25 scary Halloween movies. From the Chicago Tribune. This would have been such a nice list, but they had to make it a slide show to annoy you and get their page views up.

The Kids Halloween Candy Code. I'm afraid I'll go from "miserly portions" to "out of candy and giving out sauce packets from Taco Bell."

Ghosts in the Library! The American Library Association has collected stories of more haunted libraries than you can shake a book at.

Halloween Theme

(via Metafilter)

America’s Most Haunted: Six Seriously Spooky Sites

Having recently bought a 103-year-old house with some scary stories of its own, I approached this subject with some trepidation. After doing the research, I probably won’t sleep for days.

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Political Links

It turns out that if you've seen one presidential debate, you really have seen them all. And now you can see them all at once!

I Am A Real American.

I Am the Angry Left.

Some early W.Va. voters say touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. Like on The Simpsons.

See a West Virginia voting machine in action.

Joe Sixpack and Joe the Plumber discuss tax policy.

Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Third Party.

Barack Obama Eats Babies. (via YesButNoButYes)

The Hauntening

Good Reads and Information

Don't miss the Halloween Sky Show, October 31st through November 3rd, starring the moon, Venus, and Jupiter, with special guest Earthshine! NASA has details on what to look for while you munch trick-or-treat candy.

After 65 years on Malaga Island, Maine, the descendants of community founder Benjamin Darling were suddenly evicted and sent to a home for the feeble-minded. Almost 100 years later, the island is still uninhabited. (via Metafilter)

To every thing there is a purpose: The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure. Alrighty then.

Gorgeous underwater footage of wildlife in the Galapagos, set to appropriate music. Don't miss the whale shark in the last minute!

The Ten Signs of Intellectual Honesty. I know some people who show these characteristics; no wonder I can't help but respect them.

Static electricity and gasoline fumes are a deadly combination. About 100 static-sparked fires occur at gas stations each year.

The Haunted Hospital. Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been a TB hospital, a nursing home, a failed religious monument, and now a paranormal investigation site.

Our world is a big, beautiful, and sometimes scary place. Learn more about it with 82 Epic Elemental Phenomena and Natural Disasters.

Trick or Treat

Starring Donald Duck. 1954.

More Halloween Links

It's Almost Halloween! By Panic at the Disco. Everybody do the Trick-or-Treat!

The 15 Sexiest Halloween Costumes Based On Pop Culture. (via Gorilla Mask)

Homestar Runner's Costume Ad. (via Fark)

Alex Komarnitsky's Controllable Halloween Decorations for Celiac Disease. (Thanks, Alek!)

Body in a Bag Costume. (via Everlasting Blort)

Assault with a deadly pumpkin.

LED Ghosties for Halloween.

How to have a green Halloween.

Gruesome Halloween Party Food. Prepare these and hope your guests are brave enough to try them.

Sweet Candy Corn, a blog about nothing but the Halloween candy everyone either loves or hates.

Fun Links

A close look at donuts. Their past may be a mystery, but their present is sweet. (via YesButNoButYes)

Stop Motion Chess. With just the touch of violence the sport of kings needs.

Cunnilingus in North Korea.

Dolls and Toys that Creep us Out. It's that uncanny valley thing gain.

Run is a simple game that will drive you mad. The object is to not fall into the abyss of space while you run at a steady pace.

5 Reasons Luke Skywalker Is a Complete Idiot. No, you're not the only one who always thought so.

The McCain-Obama Dance Off. No matter what your politics are, you have to admit this video shows some sweet editing skills.

A sold-out art show in San Francisco pays tribute to LOLcats. You've made the big time now, kitteh.

A politician's chair breaks during an interview. He's not much of a "chairman", is he?

Halloween Links

DIY Halloween Decorations. They're always better than the store-bought kind!

10 Stories About the Real Dracula.

The Twelve Creepiest Hotels. In real life, not the movies. Be warned it's a slideshow with one item on each page. I hate that.

The Ten Creepiest Masked Killers of All Time. From the movies.

Eight Real-Life Doctor Frankensteins Who Pushed the Boundaries of Life and Death. Warning: this post may induce nightmares.

How good are you at separating myth from fact? Take the Mythbusters Halloween Quiz. (via Interesting Pile)

World of Warcraft Pumpkin carving contest.

34 Geeky Pumpkin Faces, featuring scenes from movies, comics, computer logos, and video games.

Ray Villifane's pumpkin carvings.

The History of Torture Devices

May be disturbing. OK, it IS disturbing. (via Milk and Cookies)

The Work Out

James the chimpanzee and his dog Pan work out together for Japanese TV. (via Neatorama)

Good Reads and Information

How 10 American Towns Got Their Weird Names. They all have great stories but I think they were all looking ahead to internet fame.

The largest snake ever found was over 40 feet long and probably weighed over a ton! The good news is that was they found was a fossil. (via Boing Boing)

5 Enormous Cracks. There are places on earth where tectonic plates are moving, sometimes too slow for humans to discern, sometimes rather suddenly.

The 10 Deadliest Earthquakes in U.S. History. A magnitude of 9.4 is almost beyond comprehension.

6 of the World's Greatest Missing Treasures. Maybe they're behind the dryer.

Gorilla conservation began in 1921 with a scientist who recognized them as our closest relatives. It's been an uphill battle ever since.

I had wondered why banks didn't just adjust mortgages to allow residents to keep their homes instead of foreclosing and losing a ton of money as the housing market tanks. Looks like banks are beginning to do just that.

When urban sprawl meets sacred ground, unusual things happen. Here are seven instances of preserved cemeteries surrounded by parking lots!

Famous People Who Have Been Homeless. More people than you realize have been homeless at one period of time in their lives, including 33 who have gone on to find fame and fortune.

The World's Grossest Candy

Be sure to stock up for Halloween! (via YesButNoButYes)

Halloween Links

Who Was Dr. Frankenstein? Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is considered by many to be the first science fiction novel. It was written in 1816-1817, during a time when bringing the dead back to life was a serious endeavor in scientific circles.

Bram Stoker's great grand-nephew, Dacre Stoker is preparing a sequel to the original Dracula novel. Look for it in a bookstore near you next October. And a film, too.

Clarifying 8 Horror Myths.

Halloween food.

Top Ten Worst Halloween 'Candies'. These are the treats you give out if you don't want those pesky trick-or-treaters to come back next year. (via the Presurfer)

Fantasy Pumpkins. A how-to guide.

Hallowindow. Decorating for Halloween in the digital age. At least, I HOPE it's a window decoration!

Links for Fun

LOLcats go to the movies! I can has Oscar?

Upgrading a Mac: it's quick and easy.

30 Skills Every Woman Should Have Before Turning 30. I have them. (Thanks, Duke!)

Test your reaction time. My average was 0.291 seconds. I be you can do better.

Entrances to Hell. Submit yours if you have one.

A little boy gets excited about a shipment of lobsters. And he doesn't even know how expensive they are!

The new line of Sony robots get down on the dance floor. This makes doing "the Robot" a lot tougher for us mere mortals.

10 Weird Psychology Studies. I'll bet some of these received grant money just for their sheer ballsiness.

The Fly and the Eye

This surreal video is to advertise a clothing line by OCB rolling papers. I don't see that. (via Ursi's Blog)

Halloween Costumes of the Past

Scaramouch is trying to scare up readers' past Halloween costumes for a photo post over at YesButNoButYes. To encourage such shenanigans, I posted the pictures I could find from long ago when I managed to go to parties for Halloween. Take a look and leave a comment!

Information Links

A million residents of the Chelyabinsk Province in Russia found out what happens when radioactive waste is not properly stored or cooled between 1948 and 1990 -not that they were told what was happening. The Worldwatch Institute calls it the "most polluted spot" in history.

An Antarctic expedition is setting out to find an explanation for why there is a great mountain range buried under the White Continent. The mysterious Gamburtsevs lie underneath up to four kilometers of ice. (via Metafilter)

The Science of Gossip: Why We Can't Stop Ourselves. Because a good dish is as satisfying as ...a good dish.

Displays of altruism or selflessness towards others can be sexually attractive in a mate. I have one thing to say about that study: duh.

Statistic on Global Wealth and Poverty. A guaranteed eye-opener.

The Cocaine Factory. The drug itself is bad enough, but look what other nasty thing they use to process it!

Despite the Wall Street meltdown, here are 10 Things That Are Going Right for the economy that consumers can rejoice about. (via Consumerist)

People keep coming up with ideas for controlling hurricanes. Hurricanes are so big they just laugh at such efforts.

Halloween Links

Vintage Halloween Postcards (via the Presurfer)

More Top Vampires from the Movies.

The Stories Behind Three Classic Halloween Movies.

The Stories Behind Three More Horror Classics. More than you ever needed to know about The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Poltergeist.

Haunted Castles of Europe.

Yes, We Carve. (via Everlasting Blort)

Paparazzi Costume.

Why Halloween will suck this year.

Baby Costume. Cookware not included.

Megaman costume with authentic megabusters!