When my wife and son set out to carve a pumpkin this year, I was asked to help.

I didn't see much of a problem in the traditional method of cutting shapes. I *did*, however, see a need to improve the process of removing the pumpkin guts.

What you'll need:
1 spaghetti spoon (forked thing to serve spaghetti)
1 cordless drill/screwdriver
3 3-inch strands of weed eater cord

Run the weed eater cord strands through the hole in the top of the spaghetti spoon and load both ends of the strands into the drill. Tighten them down.

After you've cut the top out of the pumpkin, you can use this contraption to entangle, strip, and scrape a LOT of guts out.

This is just one more way you can geek out your Halloween!

Excellent points, but I don't see the same considerate methodology in the last section of your post.

It's not so much that a donation like that implies a want to get rid of "the man," but rather as a contribution towards maintaining "fair" business practices and preventing monopolistic practices.

Take one of the previous headliners as an example: One man wants to take a standard concept (auctions on Ebay and other sites) recieve a patent for it under another situation (the fact that it is done online). I may be missing some points that lean the case more in his favor, but What if I had patented the concept of a multi-chain convenience store? Then any two (or more)companies that get together would have to pay royalties to me for simply putting it down on paper first.

This is a VERY simple example, but it's a simple, clear-cut issue. The aggressive use of patents and intellectual property lawsuits in generic situations have prevented others from entering competition. I don't know about you, but this seems like an extremely negative trend that can lead only to monopolistic situations.