[NetBehaviour] A Brief History Of Zombies.

[dougald hine]

Further zombiology:

"When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?"

http://bit.ly/kead3

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:44 AM, james morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:
>
>>See also "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of
>>Zombie Infection"
>>
>>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/zombies/
>
> Sorry, neglected to notice a direct link to the paper itself:
>
> http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
>
> Which includes code (unsure which programming language it is) for the
> model too.
>
>
>
>>On 1/11/2009, "info" <info at furtherfield.org> wrote:
>>
>>>A Brief History Of Zombies.
>>>
>>>James Turner,
>>>
>>>The sci-fi undead are personifications of technology gone horribly wrong.
>>>
>>>The atomic bombs that dropped on Japan in 1945 inspired movie director
>>>Ishiro Honda to give the world the big, bad, grey monster, born of
>>>irresponsible nuclear weapons tests that we know to this day as
>>>Godzilla. Godzilla was, quite literally, the personification of
>>>humanity's science and technology gone bad. The message was simple: With
>>>atomic weapons, we had unleashed a monster that was beyond our ability
>>>to control.
>>>
>>>In the West, Godzilla's cautionary tale (and tail) never really took
>>>hold. To Americans, Godzilla was just a guy in a rubber suit stepping on
>>>model houses. But that's not to say that the West hasn't had its own
>>>cinematic symbol of science run amuck. Instead of giant irradiated
>>>monsters, our preferred poison has been flesh-eating zombies.
>>>Article Controls
>>>
>>>Until George Romero's landmark 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead,
>>>zombies in movies usually were created from voodoo or magic (or aliens,
>>>as featured in Ed Wood's groundbreakingly awful Plan 9 From Outer
>>>Space.) Romero gave us brain-munching corpses produced from a space
>>>probe blowing up in the atmosphere. Once again, the monsters were
>>>created by our out-of-control technology.
>>>
>>>more...
>>>http://tinyurl.com/yd8vvtj
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