The artist who goes by the name freakingawesome created a typography poster entitled Zombies. It contains the names of 978 zombie movies, books, and video games. At the link, you can click the image to enlarge it (several times if needed) and read them to find your favorites. http://freakingaweso.me/zombies.php

It's the Fill in the Bubble Frenzy with boy genius Mal and his talking dog Chad! What is he saying in this empty speech bubble? Tell us and you might win any T-shirt available in the NeatoShop -take a look around, pick one out and tell us what shirt you’d like with your submission in the comments. If you don't specify a t-shirt with your entry, you forfeit the prize. Enter as many times as you like (text only, please), but leave only one entry per comment. For inspiration, check out Mal and Chad’s comic strip adventures by Stephen McCranie at malandchad.com. Good luck!

Update: We have a winner! Congratulations to Skully, who said, Let's do the ol' "There's someone on the wing!" gag. Skully did not select a t-shirt, however.

Garry and Joan Marsh of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England adopted a ten-week-old kitten from the local animal shelter and named her Polly. Three days later, they noticed the word "cat" on her left flank.

Mr Marsh, a teacher, said: ‘We were commenting on how symmetrical her tabby patterns seemed when Joan suddenly noticed the letters.

‘Once somebody points it out, it is obvious – the word stands out a mile.’

See more pictures at the Daily Mail. Link -via Arbroath

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A secret corps of photographers and filmmakers documented US nuclear testing in the 1940s through the '60s. The "atomic moviemakers", officially known as the Lookout Mountain Laboratory, established in 1947, made at least 6,500 films for the government.

Two new atomic documentaries, “Countdown to Zero” and “Nuclear Tipping Point,”  feature archival images of the blasts. Both argue that the threat of atomic terrorism is on the rise and call for the strengthening of nuclear safeguards and, ultimately, the elimination of global arsenals.

As for the atomic cameramen, there aren’t that many left. “Quite a few have died from cancer,” George Yoshitake, 82, one of the survivors, said of his peers in an interview. “No doubt it was related to the testing.”

Link -via the Presurfer

Double congratulations to our friends at mental_floss!

Fun Fact: 15% of all mental_floss employees are now on paternity leave.

Mental_floss co-founder Mangesh Hattikudur and his wife Lizzie welcomed in the next generation on Sunday. Their new son is named Henry Narayan Hattikudur. Link

Then today, mental_floss managing editor Jason English and his wife Ellen met their second daughter, a healthy baby named Katherine Therese English. Link

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The beginning of a four-part video series by filmmaker Kirby Ferguson. I'm looking forward to part two, which you'll see at the website when it debuts. http://www.everythingisaremix.info/ -via Laughing Squid

Archived TV and film footage is kept safe and sound underground in a salt mine in Kansas. The Hutchinson Salt Mine in Kansas covers 900 underground acres. When a section is finished as a mine, that space can be used for climate-controlled storage, through a company called Underground Vaults (which sounds like a name for a coffin company) and Storage. So far, around 50 acres are dedicated to storage facilities. In this interview, sales manager Jeff Ollenburger said,

It dates back to the Cold War era in the late fifties…a group of Kansas businessmen were seeing a need in the business community to store sensitive and vital records and information underground. It was the height of the Soviet Union and United States' tension in the Cold War. Nuclear warfare was top of mind for everybody, and to get everything that was important underground was a key driving element of the security of the day, and it was that need to find a location that led that group to Hutchinson, to the salt mine. Here we're in a salt mine that has been in operation since the twenties. And space was not a limiting factor--there was plenty of room, controlled access in and out, and a perfect storage environment, so it just kinda came to be that it was the ideal spot.

No water, no insects or animals, constant temperature and humidity, and that's why so many Hollywood films, videotapes, props, and other memorabilia are stored there -plus governmental archives the company won't tell us about. Link -Thanks, John!

Jeroen and Sandra Kippers of Brussels, Belgium were lifted on a platform by crane up 160 feet in the air for their wedding ceremony. They were joined by the officiant and about 20 guests. Another platform held the musicians. After the vows, they made it official by bungee-jumping over the side!

The company behind the nutty nuptials - Marriage In The Sky - have been inundated with requests from couples desperate to fling themselves off the end of the aisle.

But the ultimate thrill-seekers' wedding doesn't have to end there - once the wedding party have all been lowered back to earth, guests can head skywards again - for a floating reception.

Wedding guests are wowed with a three-course wedding breakfast - all while strapped in to the dining chairs.

The cost for such a spectacular? Around £25,000. Link -via Unique Daily

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Previously (from the same company): Dinner in the Sky

US prisons are used more and more for manufacturing. You know about license plates, but private companies also contract for prison labor to make some of the things you use every day.

The companies who employ prison labour for making dentures and other dental appliances are members of the National Association of Dental Laboratories, so they must have their workers properly trained to do the job. This may actually give a skill that could be used on the outside and keep prisoners from re-offending.

That's just one of the items on the list of Everyday Things You Didn't Know Are Made in Prisons. Link

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Suzanne Cleary and Peter Harding perform a mesmerizing hand dance. -via Everlasting Blort

You know LOLcats and RickRolls, and you are probably somewhat familiar with Pedo Bear, but do you know Preved Medved and Snel Hest? They are internet memes from non-English speaking countries. A couple of years ago, I wondered why there were so many photographs of half-naked men hanging outside apartment windows as their lover's husbands arrived -now I know: they was born from a Russian meme called PhotoExtreme. Snel Hest is a Swedish horse and Preved Medved is a Russian bear.

"Preved Medved," though slightly and deliberately misspelled, means "Hello Bear" in Russian. In practical terms, the rules of the meme are the same as for his equally retarded American cousin, Pedobear: take any regular picture, Photoshop Preved Medved into it and it's as good as a joke.

One image is NSFW. Link -via The Daily What

The geeks shall inherit the earth? Vanity Fair made a list of the 100 most influential people, and internet geeks dominate the top slots.

1. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
2. Steve Jobs (Apple)
3. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Erick Schmidt (Google)
4. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp)
5. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
6. Bernard Arnault (LVMH)
7. Michael Bloomberg (mayor of New York City)
8. Larry Ellison (Oracle)
9. Evan Williams and Biz Stone (Twitter)
10. John Malone (Liberty Media)

All 100 are profiled at Vanity Fair. Link -via Holy Kaw!

Of all the "California Gurls" parodies you've heard, this one is most likely to hit home. Team Unicorn got together to sing the praises of "Geek and Gamer Girls."

Yeah, this is another one of those Caligornia Girls parodies… but this one is really, really cool. Apart from starring the four sexy geekettes from Team Unicorn, the video also features a rapping Seth Green, Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff, and legendary comic book writer Stan Lee.

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The Hair Hall of Fame is a blog that pays tribute to bygone but unforgettable hairstyles -and some modern styles, too! Shown are actresses Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave in the big hair days of the '70s. Link -via Everlasting Blort

US college football conferences have reshuffled their membership this year. That's the subject of a tough Lunchtime Quiz today at mental_floss. If you know the history of the conferences, you just might do well. I didn't. Link