{"id":4705,"date":"2009-10-09T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T01:12:19","slug":"another-link-dump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"Another Link Dump?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t see <em>that<\/em> coming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/creepycupcakes.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/happy-halloween-unhappily-ever-after.html\">Unhappily Ever After Party<\/a> &#8211; Creepy Cupcakes has some great ideas for a party theme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/10\/01\/the-ultimate-in-sustainable-toys-a-placenta-teddy-bear\/\">The Ultimate in Sustainable Toys<\/a> &#8211; Oh, gah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/01\/howto-flout-the-obam.html\">How to Make Clove Cigarettes<\/a> &#8211; Flavored tobacco has been banned in the U.S.; catastrophegirl has posted instructions for making homemade kretek.  I think smoking is a very bad habit, indeed, but I&#8217;ll happily do my little bit for civil disobedience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miket.co.uk\/blood_lamp.html\">Blood Lamp<\/a> &#8211; Single-use lamp that&#8217;s powered by a few drops of blood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibelieveinadv.com\/commons\/heineken-halloween.jpg\">Heineken Halloween<\/a> &#8211; This ad amused me unduly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/35987\">The House of Blood<\/a> Mental Floss roundup of blood-themed decorative items.  <i>(Hat tip to Fiend4Halloween)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/6261360\/Jack-the-Rippers-identity-finally-uncovered.html\">Jack the Ripper&#8217;s Identity Revealed<\/a> &#8211; Maybe.  There&#8217;s a new contender who&#8217;ll be explored in an upcoming documentary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/goodmombadmom\/2009\/09\/why_you_should_never_invite_mi.html\">Zombie Survival Box<\/a> &#8211; This would be an <em>awesome<\/em> gift for a kid.  (Near the bottom of the post.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insectlabstudio.com\/\">Insect Lab<\/a> &#8211; Real insects customized with clock parts and other steampunky goodness.  Expensive, but lovely.  <i>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/heardingkittens.blogspot.com\/\">Kitten Herder<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.halloweennews.com\/news\/122\/ARTICLE\/1274\/2009-10-03.html\">Keep it 31<\/a> &#8211; A large US retailer is petitioning to have Halloween changed to a permanent Saturday date.  There&#8217;s a petition to try and block that.  Unbelievable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gTwLuwAxZ0MvuXuquYaNJyzDu-8AD9B5NHQO0\">Poe Funeral Do-Over<\/a> &#8211; With John Astin as emcee.  I feel a road trip coming on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t see that coming. Unhappily Ever After Party &#8211; Creepy Cupcakes has some great ideas for a party theme. The Ultimate in Sustainable Toys &#8211; Oh, gah. How to Make Clove Cigarettes &#8211; Flavored tobacco has been banned in the U.S.; catastrophegirl has posted instructions for making homemade kretek. I think smoking is a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9770,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}