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Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mostly-treats dept.

qaz submits a story about a remote-controlled graveyard. Supposedly this site is another computer-controlled setup, but it's not responding at the moment. Still looking for a pumpkin carving pattern (the Ellen Feiss pattern is nice too)? Or perhaps you'd prefer yet another punkin-chunking machine, a new model which has several news stories about it: here and here. And if spooky stories are more your style, everything2 is running a scary story contest (see last year's for ideas).

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  1. The original idea of All Hallow's Eve... by suman28 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The original story is that people were trying to keep the spirits away from your house. I don't understand why people dress up to go to others houses. This is nothing more than the candy manufacturers way of getting extra dough into their pockets.

    1. Re:The original idea of All Hallow's Eve... by thefirelane · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It comes from the Celtic traditions:

      People believed around this time, spirits walked the earth. They would put out their fires, in order to make their homes less appealing to the spririts. They also dressed up, and acted strange, in order to make the spirits think they were already posessed, so they would move on.

      Children would also go door to door, and ask for "treats" in exchange for singing a song, or reciting a poem. This tradition was brought to America by Irish immigrants in the mid 1800's

      Listen to NPR a little, no conspriacy here

      You'll have to wait until February to see a holiday that was truely concocted by merchandisers to sell thing (namely cards and flowers)


      ---Lane

  2. Halloween Scavenger Hunt by wizarddc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No one posted this? Weird

    http://hiptop.bedope.com/

    It's a halloween scavenger hunt. The objective is to use your Hiptop mobile device, and take pictures of as many things on the list as you can. There are 5 teams (which are closed, sorry johnny-com-lately's), each vying for the fabulous prizes being awarded to the one team that score the most points (each item on the list has a point value. McDonalds is 1, White Castle 2. George W. Bush is 8, Al Gore is .5).

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  3. What's everyone doing? by Bobulusman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is anyone bothering to dress up?

    I'm in college, so I wasn't planning to, but I found out everyone else is getting into the spirit, so I need a costume quick.

    I combed the shops this morning and this was all that was left to buy: stage blood and various color face paint. Any ideas? If I can't think of something cool I can make quickly, I just going to mix up a grey-green paint and go as a zombie.

    uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh brrraaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnn

    Anyway, I just want to know what cool costumes everyone else did.

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  4. coolest pumpkin carvings by cr@ckwhore · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Check out this guy's carvings... http://www.grumpkins.com

    He carves giant pumpkins, and they don't look like the standard run-o-the-mill jack-o-lanterns, thats for sure!

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  5. Blizzard's site by Alex+Thorpe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know that opinion on Blizzard is divided around here, but anyone who plays Warcraft III should check out the MP3 they have on their home page. It's the WC3 units having a Halloween party, and most of the voices are the standard ones from the game, the ones you hear when you click repeatedly on the units. "Where's my drink? There's my drink. Get in my belly!" It's great!

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  6. Re:Tux pumpkin by dwillen · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I carved tux into my pumpkin on Sunday. I didn't use any fancy software. I printed out a random black and white tux gif and carved away, perhaps a little artistic ability was involved.

    Take a look for yourself!