Google celebrated the invention of everyone’s favourite method of automatic identification and data collection today, the Bar Code. The first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. Random fact: The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley’s Gum.
It turns out Robert Smith? (question mark intentional!) has done the math, quite literally. A chapter in a forthcoming book on modeling infectious diseases called, “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection”, tells the story.
If you try to quarantine the zombies you won’t catch them all, so “it’s basically humans fighting it out with slightly fewer zombies than there were before.” That’s not what you want, given that you’re dealing with flesh-eating, undead monsters that will either kill you or bite you and turn you into one of them.
If you go for a cure, “unless the cure was 100%, which it would never be in reality, you can’t turn all the zombies back.” You wind up with “this equilibrium where people are always switching back and forth” between human and zombie. Entirely unsatisfactory.
The only solution — and if we haven’t learned this from zombie movies, we haven’t learned a damn thing — is to mount wave after wave of military attacks.
Read more here.
I was at work today and a friend sent me the link to Drum Set. It provided hours of entertainment for my whole office. Turn the sound up on your computer, go here and play.
A friend sent me these pics of quirky street posters from Melbourne today. I’m not sure how current they are – but they seem to be the work of some guy called Craig. I like the idea – it’s definitely a quirky conversation starter.
Like seriously, WTF?! Latreasa Goodman, 27, was arrested and charged with misusing 911 after calling the emergency line three times to report that McDonalds was out of Chicken McNuggets. Fort Pierce Police Department state that rather than giving Goodman her money back, the Macca’s in question wanted to give her a McDouble. The nerve! Listen to the 911 call below.
[via CBS12.com]
Me likey.
The best Bale re-mix by far! You can see the original vid here – but after watching this, why would you want to?!
I know it’s wrong – but hearing this clip just made me like Christian Bale even more! High strung? Maybe. Good actor? Definitely.
Um, so, like, up until today, I was of the belief that only superheroes could be immortal – you know, like, Superman and shit. But apparently I was wrong. It turns out Jellyfish will potentially rule the world:
Jellyfish usually die after propagating but Turritopsis reverts to a sexually immature stage after reaching adulthood and is capable of rejuvenating itself…Theoretically, this cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.
Read more here.
This is so dicked up it’s good. The first single from The Lonely Island’s debut album “INCREDIBAD”. Look out for guest appearances by Molly Sims, Jamie Lynn Sigler, and Justin Timberlake.
If you don’t find this cute + funny you have no soul.
