October 2009 Blog Posts (381)

[HALLOWEEN!] The Halloween video.

This was shot at Omar's house, after we took a walk in a graveyard. Omar will have that video up and I'll video comment this video to…

Added by Rayne Halberd on October 31, 2009 at 10:47pm — No Comments

NaNo Oh No

I did NaNo last year, and I cannot believe I'm going to torture myself again this year.

I blame John Green.

I was gonna give myself a break this year, chill out, focus on school and work and friends. I can remember the frustration, the horror and hatred I felt towards my novel during November last year. I vividly recall adding about 1,000 words to my novel about how much I hated my novel (it still counts!). Despite college, work, Thanksgiving, and life in general, I am,… Continue

Added by Gini on October 31, 2009 at 9:24pm — No Comments

hi i play runescape and i'm looking for a good account because i'm a noob if there is anybody that has a good runescape account that i can have can u please e-mail me the details at nick_boyce_y@hot…

hi i play runescape and i'm looking for a good account because i'm a noob

if there is anybody that has a good runescape account that i can have can u please e-mail me the details at nick_boyce_y@hotmail.com or at least comment the details Continue

Added by nick boyce on October 31, 2009 at 8:09pm — 1 Comment

You Voted, I created: John & Hank Green Ducks!

Here are the first Nerdfighter-chosen ducks! As you can see John is sporting the infamous "My Wife is A Yeti" shirt while Hank dons a Harry and the Potters tee. Hank's guitar has been modified to reflect his upcoming album. I hope you enjoy them!

Here are your choices for the next set of Ducks:

Vote… Continue

Added by Ashley Rautenstrauch (NM) on October 31, 2009 at 1:05pm — 25 Comments

Forum Happy Fun Time News Update!

Okay guys, today is Halloween. For those of you who will be going out trick or treating or to parties be safe and don't forget to post pics, blogs, and discussion on the festivities you've joined in on!

Nerdfighteria "No-Shave-November" Challenge: For a Cause! Evan P. Thomas Brings us a challenge.… Continue

Added by Eric aka moosemuffin on October 31, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Happy Halloween!

In which Emily contradicts herself, reads The Raven to her cat, goes to perhaps the scariest (and certainly the best valued) haunted hayride / haunted house (in the… Continue

Added by Emily on October 31, 2009 at 10:07am — No Comments

This is Halloween cover (with free MP3!!)

In the spirit of Halloween, I bring you a cover of my favourite song from my favourite movie - The Nightmare Before Christmas!

FREE MP3:

The audio file sounds a little hissy on some speakers and headphones - this is mainly due to the sheer number of vocal tracks I created whilst doing the many characters. So sorry if it sounds a little bad: hopefully the awesome still shines through =P

To get you MP3:

1) Right-click the link below

2)… Continue

Added by Paul Turner on October 31, 2009 at 7:29am — 1 Comment

The Road to Copenhagen. (For German and Danish nerdfighters!!)

The website:

http://www.theroadtocopenhagen.com/

I forgot to mention how I'm involved in all this. I'm one of the Dutch participants, and I just heard today that I'll be in the third shift!!

The Dutch selection already took place, but they are still looking for people from Germany and Denmark (about 100 from each country, I… Continue

Added by Lidewij on October 30, 2009 at 5:02pm — 2 Comments

Hate Crimes Statistics

Recently as part of a 680 Billion Dollar National Defense Authorization Bill, President Obama recently signed into law an extension to already existing Federal Hate Crimes Laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the definition of Hate Crimes.

Given this occasion I thought it was a good time to take a look at hate crimes in the United States. There's a lot of misinformation out there about Hate Crimes. People insinuate that the laws exist only to protect certain… Continue

Added by nephyo on October 30, 2009 at 2:40pm — No Comments

Localised suck levels are pretty bad at the moment - why do cats get cancer? D:> (Rant alert)

Well, yesterday we got our cat back from the vet with anaemia. We thought he'd get better from antibiotics, but have just found out today that his anaemia was actually caused by having lyphoma. The cancer's spread and he's going to die within the week. The good news in a really selfish way is that there wasn't really anything any of us could have done to prevent it.

So, anyway, in order to make this blog post a little less sucky and little more awesome, here are the good… Continue

Added by Becca on October 30, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Paper Towns

Just finished Reading Paper Towns ^^ OMG it's amazing. The thing About the black santas Was hilarious, As was Ben needing to Pee on the road Trip.
And I totally agree with Margo about the random Capitalization thing. The rules of capitalizing Are unfair To the words In the Middle.

Added by Chloe Payne on October 30, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Can Fox News Or Any News Organization Be Fair And Balanced?

First, I don't really watch any news network anymore. I get most of my news from the Internet. If I had to watch one, I might as well watch Fox, because I am tend to be conservative. I have heard a lot of criticisms of them, some of which are probably right and some of which are probably wrong. This isn't meant to be a defense of them, however.

I was interested in writing an article on this, but somebody else beat me to it. He handles it pretty well though:…

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Added by Bryan Rosander, FL on October 30, 2009 at 1:40pm — 3 Comments

I'M BLOGGING AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ISN'T THAT LOVERLY!?!

So, I know you guys are so fetched that I'm blogging again (and that I lost the game...hee..hee), but I doubt my blog will last too long. Why...I have no idea whatsoever!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess you guys should know that I'm writing this from Chatanooga, Tennesse at my aunts house, and we are going to a Ben and Jerry's parlor today!!!!!!!!!!YAY!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and you should know that if I was talking instead of writing I'd be talking really fast and you'd probally not be able to understand what I'm… Continue

Added by Alaska Is Beautiful on October 30, 2009 at 1:35pm — No Comments

The Internet + Books = Awesome?

Hello again Nerdfighters, you guessed it, its another book Friday. Today we're going to talk about eBook's and Kindle's and Twitter book's? Yup... that's right, there's going to be a Twitter book.

Well, kinda. No one is writing a book on Twitter, sorry to get your hopes up like that and then destroy them so suddenly. But a book is going to be Tweeted over the course of three days! This project is going to be done by Rick Moody, the article doesn't say to much about him aside from the… Continue

Added by Tenley Nadine on October 30, 2009 at 1:04pm — 4 Comments

Finally Finished! Well, Almost.

Graduating from college gave me time to finish the novel I started so many years ago. Okay, so don't think I'm that slow of a writer that it took me that long... I actually had to restart a few months ago. But it is finished! Almost.

Current stats: 53,138 words. 282 pages. 5 chapters broken into sub-chapters.

Now it enters my initial editing stage. I sent a copy to a friend to read so he can tell me if there are any weird plot difficulties or confusing parts. I am reading… Continue

Added by Jackson Andrew Warlock on October 30, 2009 at 12:47pm — No Comments

John Green: The Creeper

As my grandmother gets older and older, our visits are more and more frequent. Every year we take the 15 hour drive to Montana to see her. It's only 15 hours when it's just my dad and I. My mom stops every thirty minutes and likes to look at all the little things at the gas stations. Sometimes, I shake off the monotony of it by playing the "Let's Look for Hank" game. This means that I assume that Hank is in every gas station/ food-selling establishment we stop at. It really does make Montana… Continue

Added by Kaylen on October 30, 2009 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Is Halloween The Most Wasteful Holiday? (PHOTOS)

Here at HuffPost Green we love a party... and Halloween is definitely a fun holiday. But as the tradition becomes increasingly consumer-oriented, we think its in the running for the most wasteful holiday. While Christmas always gets ragged on for its consumerism, hopefully most of the gifts that are given are used more than once. Even if Halloween spending is down this year, Americans are still spending millions of dollars on mostly unsustainable, single-use and non-biodegradable products and… Continue

Added by sabelmouse on October 30, 2009 at 10:24am — No Comments

Why growing virgin vegetable oil to burn is crazy

The chief executive of Blue-NG implies he's greener than the Greens – but the argument for his grotesque trade falls flat

GM oilseed rape

Growing rapeseed oil for power stations harms people and the environment. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

What makes more sense, burning virgin vegetable oil in car engines, or burning it in power stations? The answer is neither. In both cases you are snatching food… Continue

Added by sabelmouse on October 30, 2009 at 10:23am — 1 Comment

Halloween: A Tribute To My Favorite Play!

In celebration of Halloween on Saturday, I decided to go for something really creepy in my last vlog before November. I thought, "What's the best spooky short story I know that not many other people know that they should know and check out because it's awesome?"

Well, behold!

Despite the fact that I look like a harmless 12-year-old, I'm actually a harmless 22-year-old who's obsessed with scary stuff. I want to live in Disney's… Continue

Added by Sara (Squinchilla) on October 30, 2009 at 1:01am — No Comments

Name crisis

Some guy many hundreds of years ago once asked whats in a name, I have been thinking about this a bit lately moslty because I may be having an issue with my name, It is the most boring generic name you could think of this name is Amy louise see I can already see you rolling your eyes.

Sure it's a nice enough name and i don't actually use my middle name I mean no one realy uses it but still, I no 3 other Amy's all spelt the same way 2 born in the same year, then when I'm in the pool… Continue

Added by amy g on October 29, 2009 at 10:43pm — 2 Comments