[via Bruce Schneier]

Rahner and Horton realized comic books were an ideal medium for portraying their story of a reluctant government agent sent to investigate strange happenings in remote and often backward Western towns — and its underlying criticism of today’s social and political ills. In their series, as in real life, “If you’re a rational, skeptical, independent [...]

A year ago I was researching the best place to be in the event of Zombie Uprising. I settled on an abandoned military installation somewhere off of the Florida Keys – I had forgotten exactly where the damned thing was (and thence jeopardized my zombie survival plan) until I came across the featured-abandoned-place-of-the-day at Michael [...]

In the brain and not the chest.Headshots are the very best. Zombies are used metaphorically in many ways, and the word “zombie” has a history predating the horror movies we know so well. If you don’t mind the drooling and lumbering, “zombie” is a useful, specific monkey wrench in the tool box of language. – [...]

The problem of the undead provides a humorous (and necessary) euphemism for pandemic disease. Whilst death is an inevitability, the post-mortem horror of a cannibalistic existence akin to “life” is an exercise in imagination and whimsy – aspects which obviously lack in the realities of real disease and epidemiology. Kudos to Bruce Schneier for yesterday’s [...]

In a departure from the usual questionably-related material, I would like to direct your attention to BoxHead Games, a place to practice zombie elimination in a virtual environment. You never know when you will need the skills developed by spending hours eliminating virtual zombies.