I love holidays. So many awesome designers release freebies. I've collected the locations and info of some of them for you. Most are available through the end of today, so get busy!

Freebies:

• Refuge - Freebie Halloween tee and Radiant Ruthie costume
• The Body Politik - Freebie Sculptie Witches Hat
• Little Rebel - Freebie Halloween tee
• Skin 2.0 - Freebie skin
• Canimal - Free Halloween HUD frames. To get them, join the Canimal group and it will be in the notices.
• Stellar Designs - Free Halloween layered tee
• AQUA - Free Pumpkin Pie Schoolgirl costume as part of a pumpkin hunt.
• Violet Voltaire - Free Spider Cameo Set
• Battered Boudoir - Free Halloween Lingerie
• Sae Luan - 12 Limited Edition freebies in Haunted House
• DEKA Designs - Free Halloween Outfit
• Sinistyle - Undead Inside tee
• Adam n Eve - Free Halloween eyes
• Port Seraphine - Pumpkins stuffed with goodies are hidden around the sim.
• Minnu Model Skins - Free male and female Halloween-themed skins

Cheapies:

• Nicky Ree - 50L Halloween Web Dress
• Alienbear Gupte - 25L per pumpkin, each containing a piece of jewelry, with 20 pumpkins in all. This is a scavenger hunt.
• Here Comes Trouble - 50% off of all costumes today.
• Catalyst - 10L Ribbed Vertigo dress in orange.
• Caliente Express - Halloween sale
• Total Betty's - 1L Trick or Treat Nightie Set
• Gritty Kitty - 1L Witch Hat & Scarf
  
• Tete a Pied - 50% off of the Drow, Gothique, and Marie skins
• Corduroy - 1L each Halloween leggings (Haver, Sera, and Mina)
• Lico Lico - There's an entire section with kickass freebies and cheapies!
• artilleri - Halloween Hunt - Each skull is 1L and contains a variety of artilleri items in orange.

Did I miss anything? Leave it in a comment!

Crescendo Corporation, a strategic communications company that you've probably never heard of, and Catalyst a 'full service virtual marketing company' that you've probably also never heard of have sent in a press release announcing their joint partnership and merger in terms so superlative and heavily hyped, that - frankly - I nearly junked the release before I got halfway through.

It's that embarrassing. I don't have another Bad News Week piece ready for you yet (but if I did, this would wind up in it), so for your entertainment, I'll reproduce the press release in full. People with severe hype allergies should take precautions. I'd strongly advise not getting any of this on your hands.

If you're using an ATI graphics board in your Windows Vista system, you've not been able to use Second Life. This was due to a bug in the updated 7.2 drivers. Linden Lab have been working with ATI to get this issue sorted out, and the Catalyst 7.3 drivers have been released.

If you're a Vista/ATI user who has been out in the cold, either a would-be user who hasn't had a chance to get into Second Life, or an existing user who has been locked out because of the problem, now is your chance! Grab the drivers, get them installed, and go!