(images from Columbia Pictures, Renaissance Pictures, Disney Pictures, and New Line Cinema)

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(photo: Associated Press)

Hacking electronic road signs – Yahoo! News link

(via Angie)

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Just leaked to Teh Interwebs: Weezer’s remix to their YouTube-inspired video, “Pork and Beans,” now including even more Internet memes, like the Techno Viking, the “I like Turtles” zombie kid, and even some of our old favorites mixed together (Tay Zonday doing the Numa Numa dance, for instance). Check it out:

Be sure to watch all the way until the end for a classic Internet joke. Even Nancy Pelosi is paying attention!

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I’m usually not into recycling content from posts we’ve previously done, but this was a great list my sister and I made last year around Halloween and it’s worthy of a replay:

REASONS WHY IT WOULD SUCK TO BE A ZOMBIE:
• People mistake you for Steve Buscemi.
• Dandruff shampoo doesn’t control your flaky scalp anymore.
• You smell a little like beef jerkey.
• Smartass friends keep calling you “Beetlejuice.”
• Dogs run off with your fingers and toes and bury them.
• Moaning: People always hang-up on you thinking it’s an obscene phonecall.
• You don’t have to worry about catching a cold, you have to worry about catching ants.
• Everyone asks you if you can dance like that “Thriller” video.
• All bad smells get blamed on you.
• EYE COLOR: RED on your driver’s license.
• Just because you’re undead doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt when kids throw lawn darts at you.
• Every Halloween, some half-naked ‘naughty nurse’ still manages to win the costume contest instead of you.
• BRAINS never shows up on the Dollar Value Menu at McDonald’s.
• Formaldehyde is expensive, but mouthwash doesn’t quite cut it anymore.
• Dicks with torches and chainsaws.
• Half the people you meet think your name is “Uuuuuuuhhhhh.”
• Your health insurance rates suck.
• You can only get dates with necrophiliacs and goth chicks.
• Mad Cow Disease: Fresh brains are harder to come by these days.
• Neighbor kids keep pestering you to be their entry in the Junior High Science Fair.
• Lysol doesn’t get rid of maggots.
• The I.R.S. doesn’t consider “cannibalistic undead” as “self employed.”
• Friends only invite you over when they’re throwing a Halloween party.
• Cruel pranks: When you pass out at a friend’s party and wake up in the morgue.

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Bert N’ Ernie N’ Kid N’ Play


Rubber Duckie Bonus Round:
Zombie Bert and Ernie by Killer Napkins.

(Thanks Angie N’ John!)

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Having recently finished Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, I’m thrilled about this:

Lost Zombies: A Community Generated Zombie Documentary

Become a member and submit evidence/proof of the zombie outbreak in your area (this project has evidence from around the globe).

Undead Bonus Round: The Lost Zombie sticker campaign.

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

[I just finished reading it (and yes, I know this book has been out a while)]:

By title alone, you are probably thinking one of two things:
a). “Cool! Zombie fiction!“
b). “Dear God . . . Zombie fiction?!?“

Here’s the catch: it’s not so much about zombies, it’s about how different societies would react to a global pandemic. However, the pandemic in this story happens to be the reanimated dead. And author Max Brooks didn’t get lazy about it either – he did his homework, he left no technical detail to chance. The only real fiction is the zombie part: no Deus ex machina, no laser guns invented to save humanity.

Topically, Brooks found a fascinating subject, flush with interesting questions:
“How would China or Canada react to a pandemic?”
“What is the best way to stop a pandemic from spreading across the globe?”
“What would happen to the average person when their town/city is overrun?”
“What would our government do?”
“How would we rebuild?”

Brooks also chose the perfect format for this type of story – the story is told through interviews (dozens and dozens of interviews) with different people around the world who were at significant events/moments during the spread of the disease and/or the subsequent war.

Bonus Round: It’s already on its way to being a feature film in 2010.

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