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Ok, NOW I'm worried about Amazon:

Tue, 09 Feb 2016 23:54:09 GMT

The following paragraph is taken VERBATIM from Amazon Web Services legal terms of service:

"The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization."

Thanks to dianepatterson on Twitter for the alert.

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Zombies! At! Wimbledon!

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:42:16 GMT

dzuunmod quite correctly directs your attention to this liveblog of the endless Wimbledon tennis match.

Read through it. Trust me. Even if you, like me, possess absolutely no interest in tennis, and only limited interest in zombies, read it.

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Zombieland

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:29:07 GMT

I'm not exactly big on zombie movies. That may, actually, be one of the biggest understatements I've ever made on this blog. I just don't get the point of zombies, you know? Ghosts, I get. Vampires, I get. Zombies are just, well, mindless lumbering cannibals. I guess it would be kinda horrifying to be turned into one, but given that you're already dead and not thinking much, would it matter that much? I'm thinking not. And in general, I gotta say, I find them kinda boring.

So what was I doing at Zombieland?

Kinda having fun, actually.

Zombieland is mostly about mayhem and shooting things up and mayhem and killing zombies and more mayhem. It's not a great movie, and a major plot flaw in the middle doesn't really help, but it's saved by Woody Harrelson's glee in shooting up zombies and by Abigail Breslin's deadpan teenager, a couple of musical jokes, and a hilarious scene in L.A. that I won't spoil. Also, lots of zombies. Quite fulfilling my need to see any more zombies for years.

Didn't manage to make zombies my thing, though.

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Zombies. It's not just baseless speculation anymore.

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:37:44 GMT

Admit it. You've been sitting at home, wondering about the zombie uprising. You're prepared, kinda. I mean, you got your zombie movies, your access to AK-47s, lots of things to set on fire, canned goods, and the ability to shriek in horrid fear. But what you need - what you really need - is a sense of timing. A way to calculate just when those flesh eating creatures will get you.

Luckily, a group of mathematicians has done the work for you, carefully calculating zombie outbreaks. (Pdf article.) Warning: contains actual matrices and equations. Not for the mathematically fainthearted.

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