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By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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If you have ‘shrooms in the house, it’s hard to look at this image, spotted on Facebook, and not want to grab them and a paring knife and start to skull-ify ’em. A great way to add a spooky detail to a salad for a Halloween party. The FB post was unattributed, by I managed to track the image down to Zachary Kominar’s Flickr feed and a post on Skull-a-Day from 2009.

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12 thoughts on “Carved Mushroom Skulls”

  1. Goli Mohammadi says:

    So clever and simple! One of those ideas where you go, “why didn’t I think of that?!”

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By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

View more articles by Gareth Branwyn