Happy Halloween!

A fun little game: Halloween Cat Bowling!

Mythbuster-Style! :thumbsup:
How to Build a Flamethrowing Jack-O’-Lantern
By Jerry James Stone
Thu Oct 27, 2011

Sorry Charlie, but I think this one is actually the Great Pumpkin. The flamethrowing Jack O’ Latern by Randy Sarafan couldn’t be more awesome, could it? I so want to use this for a Headless Horseman costume!

Check the bottom of the post for an animated movie of the Jack O’ Lantern in action. Keep in mind, these instructions have been abbreviated so make sure to check out Instructables for the full set.

If you need to improve your golf game, try this...
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The Case of the Haunted Golf Club
by Helen Fields on 27 October 2011

Credit: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

How can you make people better at sports? Tell them they're using equipment that previously belonged to a professional athlete. No, really. A new study finds that golfers significantly improved their putting ability when they believed the putter they were using belonged to a celebrity golfer.

The research was inspired by a passage in the 1953 book Zen in the Art of Archery, where author Eugen Herrigel describes shooting badly, handing his bow to his teacher for a few shots, then getting it back and shooting better: "It was as if the bow let itself be drawn differently, more willingly, more understandingly." Undergraduate Charles Lee of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (UVA) thought this sounded like an interesting psychological phenomenon. "Charles brought it to me and we said, 'Okay, well, why don't we do this same thing but using a golf paradigm and actually quantify it?" says Sally Linkenauger, then a Ph.D. student at UVA and now a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.

Out of 10 putts, students who were told the putter had a celebrity aura sank, on average, one and a half more golf balls, the team reports this month in PLoS ONE. "If I could tell you I could increase your ability by a putt and a half for 10 putts, a lot of golfers would be ecstatic about that," Linkenauger says.

Real scary stuff (plus cool images!)
A cosmic Halloween gallery: things that go BOO in the night

Image credit: NASA, IoA, A. Fabian et al.
The flaming skull of Perseus: a gigantic black hole gobbling down matter and spewing out vast amounts of high-energy radiation.

Halloween is coming, and while people are out trick or treating or enjoying a costume party, the Universe will continue to go about its business.

The business of DEATH, that is. Black holes will continue to tear apart stars and gorge themselves on the tasty, gooey insides; galaxies will erupt with high-energy radiation, blasting out killer rays for hundreds of thousands of light years; giant clouds of gas will collapse, form stars, and promptly have their interiors eaten out from within.

The Universe is scary, and even scarier on Halloween. And I can prove it to you, with a gallery of eerie and spooky images I hand-picked just for you. So turn down the lights, play some creepy space sounds, and enjoy.

For the die-hard, over-ambitious geek!
Win Your Costume Contest: Tips for a DIY Techie Halloween
Stuart Fox
Date: 28 October 2010

For most people, simply buying a “Scream” mask or lewd nurse costume takes care of Halloween. But for the more ambitious, Halloween is an opportunity to show off creativity and craftiness. And for these people, nothing augments a costume like using a bit of technology.

Using neon wires, LED lights and small motors, anyone with a modicum of technical skill can create a high-tech costume sure to stand out from the crowd of ersatz pimps and sexy cats.

“Electroluminescent (EL) wires are really the best option. When you use the LEDs, you have to put them in one at a time, and it takes a while. You can make them react to sound, or make different patterns with them,” said Diana Eng, a fashion designer and author of “Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech” (North Light Books, 2009).

Halloween's Top 10 Scary Creatures
LiveScience Staff
Date: 27 October 2011


HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!