With Halloween right around the corner, nothing gets the spirit going like carving a pumpkin. I know Paul is talented in carving a pumpkin, but I have not been granted that gift. However, nothing can beat the carvings by Ray Villafane, an artist for Villafane Studios. Some of his carvings are just amazing.

His work is extremely detailed. He has carved some scary looking pumpkins, as well as some portrait pumpkins such as the Predator, Chucky, and even David Letterman. On Monday, Ray was given the oppurtunity to carve away at 2 gigantic pumpkins, one being the world’s largest pumpkin weighing in at 1818.5 lbs.  So at the New York Botanical Garden, His artwork is on display. It is a carving of zombies bursting out of the pumpkin. What better way to celebrate Halloween.

Tags: art, autumn, Candy, carve, costume, fall, festival, Halloween, Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, Ray Villafane, trick or treat, Zombie

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So we have a very dense show tonight, a little on the heavy side with privacy concerns and why a program allowing amateur hacking is a good thing in the long run, as well as some utterly and completely silly nonsense. It all depends on what part of geek culture you hail from but i seriously think we have all of our bases covered on today’s show. So sit back and enjoy the ride.

This is my world you’re all just drinking my coffee.

Tags: Adobe, apple, carving, childish, deprecated, deviant art, espresso martini, facebook, firesheep, flash, Java, jetbike, muppets, Privacy, Pumpkin, Spooky Tech, squareenix, twitter, VHS, wordcamp philly

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A Broken Voice Couldn’t keep this episode down, Join in for Zombies, Social Networks, and Cake, which may be a lie

Tags: Cake, facebook, farmville, foursquare, Halloween, monsters inc, myspace, parents, Pumpkin, social networks, Star Wars, vampire, Zombies

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This episode has some scary fun stuff in preparation for Halloween. The usual assortment of costume and pumpkin articles are coupled with some awesome DIY Ideas. Enjoy the feast.

Tags: blood, Carbon Footprint, cewbacca, costume, eadgar allan poe, Halloween, laser, Pumpkin, pumpkin carving, robot, sauron, Zombie

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Today’s Show: Writing, Audiobook, Hearts, Pumpkin, Nethack, robots, legos, logo, opulence, coffee

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Back to a sense of normalcy around here, so naturally some changes are brewing. For NaNoWriMo, national novel writing month, I’m going to be releasing a new podcast as a form of first draft audio book. We’ll see how it goes. Looking for feedback on it and the first chapter should go live this week. In other news I have been working on a new logo for the CaffiNation Podcast and i think we have a winner, as it should be the album art for today’s show, and most shows going forward. Not changing the site too much yet but i’m looking for feedback here as well.

• Back Channel Links Tumblr Blog Grinds
• The Everything Feed: Friendfeed
• The RSS Feed for this Podcast
• NaNoWriMo Chapter 3 and moving right along

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Tags: Audiobook, Coffee, Hearts, Legos, logo, Nethack, opulence, Pumpkin, Robots, Writing