Halloween–Secular Christmas + Creativity? — EngagingConflicts.com
Happy Halloween! Spooky? Mysterious? Time to explore things that go bump in the night? Play?
Seth Godin defines Halloween as Secular Christmas + Creativity, and launched a special site — Squidboo! — with pages that include Hairspray Halloween Costumes, Infant Baby Snail Halloween Costume - Perfect Outfit for a Boy or Girl!, Clowns: the freakiest things on earth, Television Witches Over The Years, Bad Halloween Candy, The Best Zombie Movies Ever, and Halloween Tarot, among many more.
Here are some more Halloween features at sites around the internet:
Joost Halloween, with free, online TV offerings from The Really Terrible Film Channel, The Horror Channel, and Heavy Comedy…
Halloween science recipes over at Steven Spangler Science…
and Halloween Physics: Haunted Science Lab.
Finally, in case we are tempted to get just a little too out-of-hand, here’s a post on Is Halloween Ethical? Among other points made, it says:
Another useful lesson we could teach at Halloween is that holidays have histories. The Internet makes it easy. The History Channel website has a detailed an objective history at
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/halloween/hallowmas.html. If you are interested in the historical relationship between Halloween and religion - especially the question of whether Halloween is or ever has been Satanic - an excellent site is http://www.illusions.com/halloween/hallows.htm which presents views from all sides.
