Happy Hallowebhead

Happy Halloween!

Halloween and the Dia de los Muertos are traditions that seem to attract many homepage amateurs - and the topic is probably quite appealing for almost any class (apart from those who are grown too old and grey). I just tracked back my old homepage featuring a few links for that occasion http://home19.inet.tele.dk/susnyrop/fieldtrip.html. You should also try to do your own search at http://www.google.com

At this time of year, people living in neighborhoods all over the USA buy pumpkins, hollow them out, and carve faces in the shell. Then they put candles inside on Halloween night (Oct 31) and set them in windows or around their houses. People passing will see the light shining through the scary face.

John won the prize for the best costume. Here it is:

You see a 7-1/2 foot (2-1/3 meter) tall, brown, cylindrical shaped being with four long arm-like appendages located near, but somewhat below, the top of the cylinder. Each arm is 90 degrees for the arms on each side of it and ends in two hands. Each hand has seven long limble digits. At the top of the cylinder are seven flexible eye-stalks. The eyes move individually to allow the being to look at up to seven different things at the same time

First I'll prepare a costume in advance (just keep a line of text handy) then I can copy it and paste it after a colon when I feel like it at Tapped In.

For example, if I paste this, starting with the colon ...

:appears as a skeleton with an axe in his skull. He's poured catsup on his head and it's dribbling through one of his eye sockets.

Then everyone else will see

VanceS [webhead] appears as a skeleton with an axe in his skull. He's poured catsup on his head and it's dribbling through one of his eye sockets.

One is to change your MOOD, but you can only do this if your costume is two or three words long. For example, you could type (beginning with the slash /) ...

/mood wearing a sheet

VanceS [wearing a sheet] says "boo"

Then you could say "boo" and everyone would see ...

Revealing the secret identíty of Professor Stevens & Dr. Cat!

WARNING! This is a complete waste of precious time. For old webheads and playmates only! OBS

Last Sunday in our webheads get-together, Teresa asked Vance about the origin of the Webhead name. His explanation was , beyond doubt that a friend of his had used the term for the first time some years ago, and that many others are now using it, too. This sounded plausible. After all, he is a man with very original ideas and friends. In search for the two terms webheads + halloween, I had these interesting surprise hits: A Grateful dead rock band fan page, promoted: For Netheads, Webheads and Deadheads. http://www.jam.ca/bokomaru/links.html

A great Webfest:

There was another mention of Webheads here, by a Jon Katz, at his Slashdot blog. This Mr. Katz mentions Webheads among other groups of nerded people, like this: " a great Webfest, a convergence of alternately combative, supportive, outspoken, generous nerds, techies, hackers, cypherpunks, students, Linux and other geeks, engineers, scientists, and Webheads. " Probably some of you will identify yourself truly with one or more of these categories?

Cool Ben & Jerry

I found this charming little graveyard movie under the name of Ben & Jerry's Web-Head Halloween . Never before, I met any of OUR webheads called Ben & Jerry, so my research brought me to an icecream brand!The Costume party at Tapped In:

Now, I tried to decide for a costume to wear this Sunday, November 3, at noon GMT for our Hallowebheads party. An original Superman custume was sold this week at a Danish auction (about $20.000 only) , but I was too late to give in my bid. But all of a sudden, my research shed light and brought new insight on the historical origin of good ol' Webhead : it is another name for Spiderman!

So many Spidey experts cannot be wrong.

But an intense web trawling research took us further. Check it out here "The webbing often provides the most thrills in the game - both for their splendid execution and wide diversity. Spider-Man can web hardened gloves to his hands, with which he can inflict more damage than standard punches. The webhead can also form a protective shield of webbing that he bursts out of and creates a shockwave damaging any near by enemies. And of course, you can simply web your enemy up, trapping him temporarily. You can even tag an enemy with a web line, and yank him off his feet." Now I began to feel I was getting my nose into something interesting!

The secret identities revealed:

As early as in Spiderman #13, 1964, the name of Webhead is featured. I vaguely recall how I msut have read that mysterious adventure aloud to my younger siblings back in the old days; of childhood - this is where the evil Dr.Mysterio appears for the first time, and disguises himself as our hero and "commits a series of crime that makes the webhead public enemy number one. Mysterio then makes his grand appearance and uses the Daily Bugle to taunt Spidey into a confrontation. Spidey meets up with him on top of Brooklyn Bridge and is overwhelmed by Mysterio. Later, Spidey catches up with Mysterio and tricks him into admitting to the crime spree. Spidey defeats Mysterio and clears his name as well as ridiculing the Daily Bugle which had assumed Spidey guilt. " And, finally, this is how I solved the cryptic riddle: the secret identities of Professor Stevens and his competitive hero fellow, Dr. Cat: "The Man of Steel has his charms, but Ol' Webhead's got him where it counts - better characters, a credible villain threat and a finale that isn't laughably stupid. I do like Supes' theme music, though. Very inspiring". Just take a look at the tasty rewiev page rottentomatoes

Well, this is serious stuff. Now we do know why a certain man always lands in the Tapped In reception with such dramatic effect. Do you have anything to say for your dcefense?

References:

http://www.comics2film.com/

http://www.benjerry.com/webhead-feedback.html

http://brak.slashdot.org/features/98/11/09/1124251.shtml

Spiderman #13, 1964