From Community to Archer to It's Always Sunny In Philidelphia to Breaking Bad, this list of 12 amazing fan-inspired costumes has some of the funniest, coolest and creepiest costumes I've seen all year -including this amazing head on a turtle costume.
Escape from the Moon Bear King and Castle Gristlestein while battling all kinds of creepy foes in the new video game Puppeteer, coming soon to the PS3.
Finally, a game for Halloweenies like us who feel that Halloween should be celebrated every day of the year!
--via Kotaku
Where can a budding witchlet go to find all the spellcasting supplies they'll ever need? Why Etsy of course!
Etsy is teeming with products crafted with witches in mind, from potions to candles and incense to spellbooks and decorative accessories that go perfectly with a witchy dress and pointy hat.
There's enough magickal stuff on Etsy to fill ten cauldrons full of toil and trouble, and the only things they're missing are best procured in person, preferably under the light of a full moon...
Using live humans for scientific research means being limited by the subject's endurance and physical limitations. Thankfully there's a solution- use an undead subject instead and eliminate the boundaries holding back your research!
Conan O'Brien visited a massive Halloween superstore in Los Angeles called Cinema Secrets to film a remote bit and uncover some topical humor.
He, and the store clerk helping him out, have a good old time until they discover the Ex-Talk Show Host mask...hilarity ensues...
Watch out for Halloween Kitteh, because he has a serious sweet tooth and strikes while you are sleeping!
You go out and do all the hard work, trick-or-treating for miles around and gathering up tons of treats that will end up in this greedy kitteh's belly!
Better keep your candy under lock and key if you see Halloween Kitteh in your neighborhood...or else!
Trick is a cautionary tale, a story about why you should let your kids dress up and go trick-or-treating on Halloween despite economic downfalls and parental laziness.
Halloween is a holiday that caters to the mentally unstable, so don't deny your oddball child a chance to have fun or you may find yourself in the market for a new face!
--via GeekTyrant
Talk about the dog days of dressing up! This sad old Rin Tin Tin costume must have had kids howling in humiliation as they slipped that cheap plastic mask on and tried to pretend they were dressed as something cool.
This "Famous Name" cheapo costume was made by the Ben Cooper costume company, the originators of the flimsy plastic licensed character costume, and I'm pretty sure kids weren't eager to dress up like a dog with his own TV show, even in the 1950s.
Link --via Super Punch
Wholly Giant Tentacle Monster, this thing is awesome! Better yet you can build it yourself, thanks to Instructable user flaming_pele! I will have to keep this in mind for next Halloween. Great touch with the nightmare manhole cover.
-Via Laughing Squid
Why do we dress kids in Halloween costumes when they're too young to go out trick-or-treating? Because they're freakin' adorable, that's why!!
Try to browse this gallery of little Halloweenies-in-training without cracking a smile...it's impossible if you still have a pulse!
Those crazed, trigger happy maniacs that lurk in the wastelands of Pandora known simply as Bandits have become a popular choice for geeky Halloween costumes, but no Bandit has ever sported a mask this cool!
The mask was custom made by Captainhask, with glowing blue LED light eyes and that wrinkled skin look that sends shivers down the spine.
Link --via Obvious Winner
I like trying to recognize all of the influences in this costume. I see Doctor Who, Indiana Jones, Wolverine, Jack Sparrow, Han Solo, Superman and Boba Fett. Am I missing anything?
How did the sport of competitive giant pumpkin-growing get so big? I mean, it's really big! 
1. Chris Stevens of New Richmond, Wisconsin grew a pumpkin in 2010 that weighed in at 1,810.5 pounds -considerably bigger than the previous world-record pumpkin that weighed 1,725 pounds. The big pumpkin was weighed at the Stillwater Harvest Fest in Stillwater, Minnesota. How did he grow a pumpkin that big? Stevens has a 10,000-square-foot pumpkin patch, in which he grows only one pumpkin per vine. He shades the fruit from the sun, and feeds the vines cow manure, fish emulsion and seaweed.
Update: In 2012, we finally achieved the Holy Grail of giant pumpkin competition, the One-Ton Pumpkin.
2. Competitive pumpkin growing really began with William Warnock of Ontario. He grew the Rennie's Mammoth variety of pumpkins, which were billed as capable of growing to over a hundred pounds. However, Warnock's pumpkins were much bigger. In 1900 and 1904 he produced fruits that weighed over 400 pounds! His 403 pound world record set in 1904 stood for 76 years. See Warnock's pumpkins here.
3. The most common variety of pumpkin grown for world-record competitions is the Atlantic Giant, which produces the largest fruit of any plant in the world. The variety was first cultivated by Nova Scotia farmer Howard Dill in 1976. It was Dill who finally broke Warnock's big pumpkin record in 1979, and grew record-setting pumpkins for several consecutive years afterward. The Dill family still sells the record-breaking seeds.
4. During the last few years of the 20th century, the competitive pumpkin community was rocked by cheating, scandals, and infighting -enough to power a soap opera. The main governing body of the competitions was the World Pumpkin Confederation. A split in the membership led to the creation of the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, which now oversees official weigh-ins.
5. The first pumpkin that weighed over a thousand pounds was grown in 1996 by Paula and Nathan Zehr of Lowville, New York. Their record-breaking pumpkin weighed an astounding 1,061 pounds, which won the couple a $50,000 prize for reaching the 1,000-pound milestone. Since then, half-ton pumpkins have become "common". The world record for large pumpkins has been broken every year this decade, except for 2008.
Hilarious Halloween costume galleries keep rolling in, and we can't resist sharing them all!
This time around we've got a gallery with an out of shape Avenger, some dogs that seem scared of their own costumes, a few sexy sirens in superhero attire and more.
Keep the costume galleries coming interwebs, and we'll keep on posting as many as we can.
Who says every Stormtrooper is male, or a grown up? This cute little Stormtrooper proves that no matter how cute you are with the helmet off a blaster and full suit of armor shows you're all business.
Katie Goldman was the victim of school bullying because of her love of Star Wars, and when the 501st Legion heard about this travesty they came to Katie's rescue by giving her a custom made suit of Stormtrooper armor, and her popularity on the interwebs made her one little SW fan with a lot of backup.
Bullies- mess with Katie and you're messing with Darth!
