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52 ideas that put you in the mood for Halloween!!!

Things that are associated with Halloween. Costumes, masks, scary movies, pranks, treat-or-tricks and parties. There are so much possibilities when celebrating Halloween. To tell you the truth, here in Singapore, we don’t have much celebrations for Halloween. So please put on your costume and celebrate it for me. I want you to have a good Halloween. I hope these ideas will help you kickstart your Halloween celebrations.

1. Marilyn Manson Mask. Wear it.
2. Transformable Transformer suit. Transform at your party. Autobots, Transform…and roll out.
3. MarioWeen DX. It is a fangame based on Halloween-themed levels.
4. 300 free Halloween fonts. Design your party’s poster with these fonts (from Designorati).
5. Futureme.org. Send a future mail to yourself of 2008 to ask if you had a fun 2007 Halloween Party.
6. Nosferatu. Watch the very first Dracula movie. It is a silent film from year 1922. Vintage.
7. DevilTrampingGround. Visit this spooky website. Features there included a haunted ventriloquist dummy, a Banshee movie and ghost cam.
8. Smashing Magazine Halloween roundup. There are some amazing desktop wallpaper and graphic art shown.
9. Firefox theme. Suit up your FireFox for the holiday season with these two themes. HalloFF and Halloween.
10. Top 7 scariest games. According GameGirl.com. Play them at 4am in the morning and scared yourself to death.
11. Freakin’ Friends contest. Take part at PhotoBucket. You could win yourself a Tivo DVR. View some of the entries here.
12. 100 scariest scenes from the movies.Relieve your scary moments at the cinemas. From RetroCrush. (beware : tons of pop-ups)
13. Jarhead. Want to know how to make a JarHead? You know those bottles with a man’s head floating within. Here are the instructions to make one to prank your friends.
14. Urban ruins. Take a walk around these ruins to put you in the mood for Halloween.
15. Carving pumpkin. without using hands. Watch this video made with stop motion. The conclusion effects are awesome.
16. Dead Baby Pasta. Prepare this dish for your Halloween party and someone gonna vomit.
17. Sick prank. Lacking ideas for a Halloween prank? Here’s one to get your creative juice going.
18. Part 2 of a Japanese horror series. Japanese clip to puts you in a frightened mood. The narrator’s voice is SOO creepy.
19. Wacko-Jacko mask. Wear this creepy mask too.
20. PC in a pumpkin. Dress up your PC.
21. Backyard crypt. Make your very own crypt complete with flying ghost illusion.
22. The Server room of Horrors. Listen to this 10 mins podcast. Give me quite a good laugh.
23. “Decoration” that turns out to be a suicide. Beware of Halloween decorations that look too real. They might turn out to be real. Here is a about a suicide that turns out to be true.
24. Death Clock. Find out how much more seconds you have to live. Let’s hope you have more than 24 hours. Let’s enjoy this Halloween first, shall we?
25. Halloween. Everything you need to know about Halloween. Wikipedia edition.
26. Google log0 (Halloween edition). View these Halloween themed logos for the past 7 years.
27. Opening sequence to Halloween movie. How can we forget this? Like the guy said, “Violence does occur in this clip.”
28. Best Japanese horror movie of All time. Wanna celebrate a japanese-style Halloween?
29. Top 10 scariest urban legend. Which one do you believe?
30. Jinx episode 1: A dark and stormy night. Can you help Jinx find out who is living in the spooky house? A flash game.
31. Nights of the Living Heads. A collection of “heady” comic strips to celebrate this years Halloween.
32. Ipod nano as a Ouija Board. Yeah, now we can have a portable Ouija board. Just what I wanted.
33. Atama Yama - Mt Head. A surreal animation masterwork of Koji Yamamura. Thought-provoking.
34. Engadget Halloween costume contest (2006). Wanna reuse some of the ideas for your costume this year?
35. Halloween costume for your dildo. I hope you don’t bring along your dildo to your Halloween party. (warning: adult content)
36. Monsterlist of Halloween Projects. Massive, MASSIVE list of projects you can do for Halloween. Including making a Severed Arm or Talking Skull.
37. Killer Rat Cake. Full instructions on how to make a entirely edible Killer Rat cake. (warning: gory pictures)
38. Pumpkin Way. Lots of design for your pumpkin head. Provided you have the skills to pull it off.
39. Take picture with a ghost. Video instructions included.
40. Lifehacker homemade Halloween costume gallery. Hi Lifehacker, how does these increase productivity?
41. Halloween origami. Save the pumpkins. Cut down trees to make paper to make a Halloween origami.
42. Tampon Halloween hobogoblins. This is from the site Tamponcrafts. Guess there are more alternative uses than sticking it in.
43. Haunted Hikes. If you don’t feel like treat or tricking, but rather go hiking. (who does that???)
44. Halloween WordPress themes. Choose either Whimsical Witch or Primitive Halloween.
45. Halloween music. Get you party started with these midi files.
46. FaceBook Apps. Be on the dot. Spice up your facebook with this list of facebook apps.
47. Affiliate programs for Halloween. Don’t forget to work during the holidays. Best time to make money.
48. Sinisterspace.com. The social networking site for horror and goth.
49. Costumzee.com. Social network Web2.0 for Halloween costume. Find great ideas for your costumes.
50. The Simpsons- Halloween Specials. You can always count on The Simpsons for great Halloween specials. Can’t wait for this year’s edition.
51. Happy Tree Friends. Visit their Halloween minisite and watch more gory cartoons.
52. BlogMunch T-shirt store. How can I end this list without a plug to my own store. Head over there and take a look.

Well, that’s a massive list, don’t you think? (I am so sick of typing the word Halloween now).Hope I have provided enough ideas to kickstart your Halloween holidays.

Happy Halloween!!!

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I am now a PayPerPost publisher

I sign up with PayPerPost sometime ago and just got accepted last week. Not sure if it is because of my PageRank (I have none)or my low subscriber count. But now that is settled, so I can concentrated on writing paid post for this blog.

Why?

Well, advertisements are not making me any money. I am not talking about $100 per day range. I am at the moment just want to cover my hosting fees plus some small change for my time spent blogging. That’s where PayPerPost comes in. It gives me an opportunity to get paid while blogging. It’s like I am now the freelancer for the newspaper call PayPerPost Times.

I think the main difference between paid blogging and ads on the side bar is that you know what you are earning for each post. You will only know how much the ads you put earn when you get your daily report. Its good to know you will get paid when you work for it.

How?

Of course by writing on BlogMunch. I know there are lots of articles that say PayPerPost articles are biased and evil. But you really have to use your own judgment for stuffs on the internet. Anyway, I will try to be as objective as possible about my paid posting. If there is something bad to be said, I will say it. A good point about PayPerPost is their word of mouth ethics. It is now required to display a disclosure badge on your post. This will promote transparency and post integrity.

When?

I am not sure how much offers I have on the marketplace for a small blog like mine. I’ll say maybe a maximum of 3 paid posting per week for starters. I will see how much money I can earn and take it from there.

I am itching to have a blog contest on BlogMunch for a while. So I think I will use any surplus income from PayPerPost to fund a blog contest and reward readers on this blog.

Wish me Luck!

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Good reads from my feeds - Domains

It has been some time since I have written about domains, so I would like to share some of the good reads about domains and domaining.

1. Mysterious Domain Names with Ads - A good article about the basics of domaining in layman’s term.
2. Does .org (or .net) + SEO = .com? - Everyone talks about .COM being the only valuable TLDs. A good brand and proper SEO can enhance your .NET and .ORG too.
3. Top 4 Lies Domainers Tell Themselves - Andy Hagans bust some of the myths domainers believe in.
4. How To Estimate Universal Search Volume *Without* Using Yahoo or Wordtracker - Most domainers uses Overtune to research their keywords. Here’s how to estimate without it.
5. Top 6 Places to Sell Your Domains For Free! - If you want to sell your domains yourself rather than depending on SEDO.com, here are 6 sites you can try.

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Free game of the week - Tower of Goo

Today’s game is not a flash game that you can play online (though it did look like a flash game). Tower of Goo is a freeware game that you download to your computer and play. No installation required.

Tower of Goo is a another type of gravity game where you build up your tower as high as you can. There seems to be no limit to how high you can build. The gameplay consist of little creepy goo balls massing at the tip of your tower, trying to get higher than the others. Here you come as a god, choosing one goo ball with your left mouse button, pull up to form a triangular frame. (see below pictures)

That’s basically it. You pull and pull until you go the highest you can go. The difficulty comes when you don’t build a wide enough base, which will cause your top to sway and finally topple. You can have unlimited topples without ending the game. The frames that topple will form a wider frame for your next ascent. The only goal you can aim for will be your personal best height.

This game is great for a minute or two short game to relax yourself between tasks. Just don’t let your boss see you.

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