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Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en?

Posted by timothy on from the best-holiday-generally-speaking dept.

Hallowe'en is my favorite holiday: I like seeing costumes (and walking around in my own), and seeing what people do to decorate their houses, yards, etc. For the second year in a row though, I've failed to come up with a really good scheme for making my own place appropriately spooky. So, in hopes of loosing some inspiration for myself and others, I ask today what you're doing to spookify your surroundings (or your person) tomorrow, especially if it means using technology in interesting ways. Sensor-activated scary sounds or lights? An Arduino or Raspberry Pi-controlled costume? Elaborate trap-door? Infrasonic hackle-raising subwoofer install? Maybe one year Alek Komarnitsky will switch to Hallowe'en instead of Christmas, and offer a webcam-equipped remote-controllable haunt.

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  1. Dressing up... by Nukenbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    and hitting on girls a decade young than me in short skirts.

    1. Re:Dressing up... by hercludes · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't think the best strategy of hitting on girls is to wear short skirts.

  2. The same thing I do every night by decipher_saint · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try to take over the world

    --
    crazy dynamite monkey
  3. Down Under... by klingers48 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being Australian? I can go grumpy old man on those few kids that usually go trick or treating. It's always fun watching blank stairs of incomprehension as I tell them that their mums and dads are bad parents for indoctrinating their children with an Americanized handout mentality as well as bad neighbours for expecting me to cross-subsidize their efforts with candy.

    Get off my lawn. Clean up those eggs and toilet rolls.

  4. Re:What am I doing on "halloween" ? by Gogo0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I dont live in america and all of my friends are not americans, yet they celebrated halloween by dressing in silly costumes, going to parties, and having fun.
    it was HORRIBLE. the sooner people stop making excuses to have fun, the better. goddamn halloween