September, 2011

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Or at least the places that are prepared for them, created by The Oxford Internet Institute:

Using a keyword search for “zombies”, the following map visualizes the absolute concentrations of references within the Google Maps database. The map reveals two important spatial patterns. First, much of the world lacks any content mentioning “zombies” whatsoever. Second, and related, the highest concentrations of zombies in the Geoweb are located in the Anglophone world, especially in large cities. The results either provide a rough proxy for the amount of English-language content indexed over our planet, or offer an early warning into the geographies of the impending zombie apocalypse.

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The 6 Most Insane True Tales of Survival – [Cracked]

9 Famous People Who Started as Disney Park Characters – [Mental Floss]

Scientists May Have Made A Particle Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light – [The AP]

Hundreds of scientists packed an auditorium at one of the world’s foremost laboratories on the Swiss-French border to hear how a subatomic particle, the neutrino, was found to have outrun light and confounded the theories of Albert Einstein.

Going faster than light is something that is just not supposed to happen, according to Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity. The speed of light – 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) – has long been considered a cosmic speed limit.

The team – a collaboration between France’s National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research and Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory – fired a neutrino beam 454 miles (730 kilometers) underground from Geneva to Italy.

They found it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. That’s sixty billionth of a second, a time no human brain could register.

Thousands Of Strange “Nazca Lines” Discovered In The Middle East – [The Daily Mail]

Peru’s Nazca Lines, the mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert centuries ago by indigenous groups, are world famous – and now thousands of similar patterns have been found in the Middle East.

Satellite and aerial photography has revealed mysterious stone ‘wheels’ that are more numerous and older than the Nazca Lines in countries such as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

The structures are thought to date back 2,000 years, but why they were built is baffling archaeologists and historians.

Best. Simpsons Clips. Ever. – [Wired]

Sunday marks the Season 23 debut of The Simpsons — a season that will include the 500th episode of America’s longest-running animated program. To mark this milestone, we asked Wired.com staffers to name their all-time favorite episodes, lines, nerdy send-ups and moments from the show. The picks kept rolling in, but we narrowed them down to 10.

A Trip Around New Zealand (Photos) – [In Focus]

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Probably what mine would look like too.

Doghouse Diaries

RIP Fred.

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Happy Place

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Emory & Henry punts to UVa-Wise with a few seconds left on the clock and a 3-point margin, because what’s the worst that can happen?

(If you have headphones, turn the volume down)

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A new subreddit in the same vein as “Explain Like I’m Five” in which participants explain things the way Calvin’s dad would. For example:

How come pizza is delivered, but we have to drive to the burger place?

Pizzas have to stay in motion to taste good. That’s why you toss pizza dough in the air when you’re making it. If they’re stationary for too long, they stop tasting good, which is why the third slice is never as good as the first. You can trick pizza into being tasty again by putting it in the fridge–the coldness dulls its senses and makes it thinks it’s moving.

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Graphic designer Anthony Herrera’s daughter loves Star Wars, so when he took his daughter to Sequoia National Park (which resembles the redwood forest used in Return of the Jedi), he told her that it was the place where Ewoks live and she should keep an eye out for them. Unfortunately, she didn’t see any. After applying some Photoshop to the album photos, he showed her that although they didn’t spot any, the Ewoks had definitely spotted them.

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