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Real Life Zombie-Outbreak-Timeline in the News

So it starts, a real Life Zombie-Outbreak-Timeline:

5/16: McArthur High School HazMat Situation
Students, Teachers Decontaminated After Breaking Out In Rash

5/19: No confirmation on chemical at Fort Lauderdale International Airport

5/21: Police: Man bites woman in Westchester

5/23: I-285 reopens after hazmat incident

5/23: Man Bites Cousin’s Nose Off

5/24: Second Broward school reports mystery rash

5/25: Hazmat Called After Kids Exposed To Pesticide On Bus: Hazmat, EMS Respond To Lake County, FL School

5/25: ‘Disoriented’ passenger subdued on flight in Miami

5/26: Naked Man Allegedly Eating Victim’s Face Shot And Killed By Miami Police

5/26: Florida Doctor Spits Blood at Highway Patrolmen After DUI Arrest

All in same week and same state…. may God be with you Florida.

Zombie apocalypse coming soon

Kids remix the Washington Post

Die Kinder von Angestellten der Washington Post haben die Titelseite der Zeitung geremixt und der- oder diejenige, der oder die die rechte Version mit „Random Story hits paper“ gemacht hat, wird einmal einen Nobelpreis gewinnen, den Weltfrieden erreichen und als erster Mensch mit Außerirdischen reden. Jede Wette.

Children of Post employees visited the newsroom and decided they could draw a better front page than their parents could create. Here are their front page news stories.

Take your kids to work day at the Washington Post (via IZReloaded)

April 11, 1954: The most boring day in the 20th century


(Flickr Direktnothinghappened)

Deep Thought True Knowledge, ein Computer in Cambridge, hat die Antwort auf die Frage nach dem Leben, dem Universum und dem ganzen Rest errechnet, was der langweiligste Tag im 20. Jahrhundert gewesen war. Die Antwort ist der 11. April 1954, an dem Tag passierte so gut wie nichts.

Every day something of significance happens, a person is born who is destined for fame, there is an event in the arts or sports, history is created. With 300 million of these facts fed into the “brain” of True Knowledge, Tunstall-Pedoe’s Cambridge company, the computer was asked: “What was the most boring day in the 20th century?” […]

“For fun we wrote the program and set it going. When the results came back the winner (or perhaps loser) was April 11, 1954 – a Sunday in the 1950s. Nobody significant died that day, no major events apparently occurred and although a typical day in the 20th century has many notable people being born, for some reason that day had only one who might make that claim: Abdullah Atalar – a Turkish academic.

“The irony is though, that having done the calculation, the day is interesting for being exceptionally boring.”

April 11, 1954: The most boring day in the 20th century (via Neatorama)


(Youtube Direktnonews)

The Onions’ News From The Year 2137


(Youtube Direktonion, via io9)

Den Trailer zu The Onions’ News From The Year 2137 hatten neulich schon hinter den schwulen Fußballclip geklebt, die ganze Folge (ein Kurzfilm von 12 Minuten) gibt es jetzt im amerikanischen iTunes-Store. Hat jemand ‘nen amerikanischen Account, kann die Folge ziehen und mir zukommen lassen? Ich lade die dann thru magic irgendwo für alle hoch…

A catastrophe known as “the Burndown” has reduced the world to an anarchic hellscape — food and water are scarce, borders have been redrawn, many humans remain irradiated, and the United States is ruled by a screaming, tattooed thug. Amidst the decay, the Onion News Network remains unrivaled, disseminating 24-hour brutally graphic reports directly into the right eye of all future viewers through a technology that will be known as ‘eyestreaming.’

This is the Headline for a Blogpost featuring a Video that fits perfectly with a Link to a Text, which I had in my Linkdump this morning


(Youtube Direkthowtoreportthenews, via BoingBoing)

Dieser Satz erklärt, worum es im obigen Video geht und wer es gemacht hat. Dieser Satz erzählt kurz die Hintergründe, während dieser Nebensatz eine kleine persönliche Einschätzung dazugibt. Dieser Satz baut eine Brücke zu wahlweise Hip Hop oder Religion und disst entweder das eine oder das andere auf unglaublich polemische Weise. Garniert werden diese drei Sätze durch den obligatorischen Snip:

This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of those very few people. This sentence expresses the unwillingness of the writer to be silenced despite going against the popular wisdom. This sentence is a sort of drum roll, preparing the reader for the shocking truth to be contained in the next sentence.

This sentence contains the thesis of the blog post, a trite and obvious statement cast as a dazzling and controversial insight.

This sentence claims that there are many people who do not agree with the thesis of the blog post as expressed in the previous sentence. This sentence speculates as to the mental and ethical character of the people mentioned in the previous sentence.

Dieser Satz ist normalerweise kein Satz, sondern ein Link: This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post

10 Days: News Headline-Painting Timelapse-Video


(Vimeo Direktheadlines, via KFMW)

Ripo hat die Headlines von 10 Tagen auf BBC Online gemalt und jeden Tag übermalte er die Headline von gestern mit der aktuellen. Sweet!

Everyday the news is transmitted to us across the globe. We’re left saddened, scared, inspired, skeptical, hopeful, angry, or simply numb. But the next day brings a new set of stories painting over the memories of yesterday’s events.

Larry Roibals Kuliportraits

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Larry Roibal zeichnet Portraits von Personen der aktuellen Zeitgeschichte mit einem Kuli auf die Zeitungsseite mit dem Artikel. Nice!

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