TIME Magazine features an article, “Yes, It’s Too Soon: 8 Halloween Costumes to Avoid This Year,” and among the eight listed is Apple confounder Steve Jobs:
Eight Halloween costumes to avoid this year:
1. Amy Winehouse
2. Muammar Gaddafi
3. Steve Jobs: Don’t let the ease of choosing Steve Jobs as your Halloween costume — or the internet telling you it’s a great idea — cloud your judgment. Grabbing a black turtleneck, a pair of faded blue jeans and some wire-framed glasses seems like an easy way to honor Jobs, but it really will come across oh-so-differently to anyone else struggling with cancer, especially so close to the passing of Jobs. Instead, try dressing up as a giant iPod. Or, better yet, one huge earbud. — Tim Newcomb
4. Anders Breivik
5. Amanda Knox
6. The Euro
7. Osama bin Laden
8. Casey (or Caylee) Anthony
Read more in the full article here.
A giant iOS device of some type sounds like a good idea.
Name-dropping article.
Just saw a kid dressed as an iPad.
How about something scary like ‘I’m a PC’!
Ha! Was just on my way to buy a black turtleneck.
Go as a Blue Screen of Death. Very scary for all your PC friends who haven’t switched yet.
(Note the “yet” part.)
Today’s “Joy of Tech” (link on the left of this page) is a great one about Halloween costumes.
Everyone should dress up as Oblamer. He’s as fake as can be.
Not only is it too soon and tasteless, but those of us still in mourning and reading all that the media produces, including Walter Isaacson’s biography, would be highly offended at having to view Steve wannabes. Ick.
I totally disagree. Steve jobs’ iconic “uniform” has nothing to do with his health condition. Maaaaybe, just maaaybe is will make people recollect his recent passing and make that correllation–but doesn’t that outweigh showing your admiration and fandom by dressing as he did? I’m mean, people like him, they like him a lot.
I don’t think he was buried in the the outfit was he?
…AND SINCE WHEN THE HELL WAS HALLOWEEN ABOUT AVOIDING HURTING PEOPLE’S FEELINGS?!?!?!?!?………………………………………………………………………buncha tech-hippy-politically-correct-twats!!!!!!
At a party Saturday night I saw both Steve jobs and Amy Winehouse costumes.
Is it really bad that I actually had to Google a couple of those names because I didn’t recall or know who they were…
And I’m usually pretty up-to-date on the news…lol…
Chris Powers
he acts like people would be walking around with a fake bloody liver hanging out of a torn out abdomen of the iconic black turtle neck.. hhmm.. i think i have my costume!!! j/k.
and a few other people on that list absolutely deserve no respect.. who is this chucklehead author?
I thought Halloween was about, you know, scary stuff.
So dress up as Steve Ballmer… 🙂
What a retarded article for Time to do. How the heck would one dress up like Amanda Knox? And no one would want to dress up like the Euro and even if they did, no one would give a dump.