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RideMax writes "Forbes today has posted a nice selection of printer-friendly halloween masks, including those of several dead celebrities, and of course, this famous billionaire." An anonymous reader sent in a strange Halloween Geek Test. And another reader sent in the iPod-O-Lantern.
Disappointed that there was no Nader mask. Very scary to us Democrats.
I can just picture swarms of kids running around with printer generated masks. Ink running off the page because its raining.
Rubber is definately the way to go.
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With all the paranoia about kids trick-or-treating, and parents taking kids door-to-door while it's still light out (before people are home from work) it just seems like Halloween has become a dud.
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Bush's vacant stare looks vaguely familiar. Without the hat, I wouldn't know it was a mask...
Just don't forget to wear a bullet proof vest when you venture out.
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The funny thing is, they didn't have to change the hair or skin tone much to make this mask...
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http://images.forbes.com/media/halloween/gates.jp
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well that's kinda neat. But if anyone was going to do something like this, I would think it would be the printing companies like HP or Lexmark. The more ink used, means more business for them right?
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They never said it had to be for your face.
Chris Knight is my hero.
http://www.homestarrunner.com/ween04.html
Bush and Cheney, John and John, and the Governator, but what the hell is Elliot Spitzer in there for? Could have at least used Nader(too scary?) or Badnarik or something. Forbes, what were you guys smoking? Oh, ya, dollar bills, that's right.
That would be hilarity.
where are the.. blood drops on the masks? doesnt seems to be very scary to me. should add some more effect with photoshop. and some for the bigger faces!
Needless to say, I'll have the knee-jerk reaction of smacking the crap out of the first kid that comes to my door in a Daryl McBride mask..
I like this pumpkin better.
This is cool. Or rather hot. Particularly where the flames are coming out.
"It's as unscientific as it gets, but the theory, according to some people in the costume business, is that the winner in every election since 1980 has been the candidate whose masks were most popular on Halloween."
_ ma sks
See:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/21/news/funny/prez
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
This year i'm going as Justin Timberlake and My GF is Janet. My best costume was the priest. Although atomic wedgie is sounding best this year.
Check em out 2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes
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I tried that geek test... just when I thought I was a bigger geek than ever... I fail at this... I need to read something.
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any good geek knows that halloween and christmas are the same thing:
OCT 31 == DEC 25
the original, of course
I recall back in 2000 a news story about how the sales of Halloween masks for the presidential candidates predicted the election outcome (candidate whose mask sold more won the election).
Found this site keeping tabs on sales this year. W is in the lead right now (though I expect their numbers to be somewhat less than scientific).
In a similar vein, Washington Redskins home game wins have correlated with the outcomes of presidential elections. This has held true sine 1936! When they loose their last home game before the election, the challenging party wins the election. This year: Green Bay is favored to win in Washington this Sunday.
Unfortunately, the popular vote has proven to not be an accurate predictor of who wins the election...
A thinkgeek t-shirt?
These kids did NOT know the significance of what they were posing for. These are not funny.
... that haircut is way better than the one sported by the real Bill Gates.
Here's how Madonna did it.
(Image from here.
See what I've been reading.
How you can dress like a virgin for Halloween: Wear the clothing you wore to work.
Good ole' Buffalo Bill's
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Yeah, just what we need! More iPod flavors!
The GOP Presidential iPod: comes in a red, white, and blue case. Only plays Pat Boone, Mel Torme, and John Phillip Sousa. Invades you're active applications on the desktop when you sync it, attempts to download and then fight as many viruses as possible, and then claims you need to keep it installed to finish what it started.
They Kerry iPod: Will play any tune, but never the same way twice. Married to a rich file-serving application that can get it any song it wants. The case is painted to look like a waffle.
The Red Sox iPod: Plays the blues for 85 years before finally blasing out "We Are the Champions."
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After all, why bother for outdated mythical horror figures that only shows up once in a year when you can have the most frightening and relistic evil figures you can watch on news everyday? Adding a lantern of a beheaded non-Arabic civilian, you can guarantee everybody is going to get a shock of the lifetime.
Oh that is just WRONG!!
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It's no fun if you just dress normal...
cause it looks like the iPod o lanterns site is toast
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Man, what wouldn't I give for the "Frank" mask from that movie.
What are you talking about? Elvis is not dead!!!
You'll have a Charlie Brown Halloween if you do.
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don't most /.ers do that every day?
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What's the purpouse with halloween? I don't get it, you decorates pumpkins and dress up as something "ugly".Halloween is only used in the states, And I for one would like it to be so. For me halloween defines the american way, fake, ridiclus and somewhat comercial (also therir christmas is part of this).
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Except of course during the last election, where the result was decided based on the masks that were used by the members of the florida supreme court.
Strange really, you would think that Gore would have had the edge if it was based on Halloween.
Anyway, I think this year Kerry is a dead (no pun intended) cert, due to his striking resembelance to Frankenstien's monster.
But how do you tell the Kerry masks from the Frankenstein masks?
Don't forget these Homestar Runner pumpkin stencils.
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The iPod-o-Lantern wallpaper can be had here:
a cks/iPod-o-L antern_800.jpg
h acks/iPod-o-L antern_1024.jpg
h acks/iPod-o-L antern_1280.jpg
800x600:
http://www.chaosmint.com/images/ipodh
1024x768:
http://www.chaosmint.com/images/ipod
1280x960:
http://www.chaosmint.com/images/ipod
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Elvis is under dead celebrities
I distinctly remember seeing him at kmart
Try dressing like your Dad :P
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Sigh... If only. Modding would be so much more fun.
What about dressing up like a newly-wed gay couple? This ought to scare tons of people as well.
not nrrdy, but funny as hell....
http://www.thestranger.com/current/special.html
Need I mention our very scary Ballmer O' Lantern?
Nitrozac has also made a nice tutorial for those who want to try making one these very cool Jack O Lanterns.
you weeny nerds!
Where is the Darl McBride one?
SCO is very scary
Perhaps they mean more popular. Historically, the Nixon mask has been the most popular of masks for politicians.
A Billg mask is not scary.
Billg, himself, is scary, but a Billg mask is not scary.
Now a Steve Ballmer mask, THAT'S SCARY.
Especially if you throw in the Monkeyboy dance - "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
(Of course, one might conjecture that the original dance may have had something to do with too much sugar and caffeine.)
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... the iPod-o-costume.
As Gizmodo put it, "No, really. Just hit 'menu.'"
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What I want to know is, did more people buy the (eventual) winner's mask because they liked that candidate, or because that candidate was most scary to them?
Sort of like a reverse-popularity predictor if it's the latter.
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We had a pumpkin carving contest at work - and I won with my Gene Simmons Pumpkin. Geez, I used to be cool.
When even Forbes magazine portrays him as a monster for a laugh!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
The iPod-O-Lantern is available in different sizes for use as a wallpaper...it's available in 1280x960 but not 1280x1024 (the first one scales fine though). Can anybody perchance explain why there are two pretty much trivially different (bout 7% no matter which way you look at it) vertical resolutions for the 1280 horizontal resolution?
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...for something really scary, how about dressing up as a guy from an outsourcing firm in Bangalore? Guaranteed to scare the crap out of your neighbors.
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It is a Mogwai. It's the Mogwais that spawned with water and turned into gremlins after eating after midnight. NOT the gremlins.
what geek test could get this wrong?
Because so many of the Apple displays are now in wide-screen proportions.
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
?..the apple widescreens run in 1280x800 (link)
1280x1024 is actually a "narrower" size than 1280x960:
1280/960=1.33...
1280/1024=1.25
t's definitely usable on normal screens, it's what I use on my 17" CRT and i've seen it on PCs, so I don't think it's just an apple resolution.
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I've only got one thing to say about this basement-dwelling pumpkin carver: here
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Kinda scary that the demographic Forbes is making these masks for needs directions on clicking the little printer icon. I can't wait to see all the lawsuits when these CEOs run into the street with their fancy new masks and get slaughtered because they didn't get directions to cut the little eyeholes out.... hmmm..think I'll forward the article to my PHB...
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I seem to recall the 1280x960 originally being one of the Sun workstation resolutions when most desktop users still thought 800 across was big...
These things print too small, and the instructions for printing them reference IE 5. See your Forbes stock now!
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