Shaun of the Dead: Best Zombie Movie Ever

After a week of tsunamis, earthquakes, mudslides, Jon Gosselin, and David Letterman, its good to know that there is at least one school that thoroughly prepares for every possible disaster. There is still one school out there that takes the safety of it’s students very seriously. They believe in protecting them from hurricanes, and global disease, and zombies.Yes, zombies.

The emergency plan for the invasion of the Undead ( “flesh-eating, apparently life impaired individuals.”) Is not quite clear, what is clear is that in the event of an outbreak, there will be “documentation of lots of strange moaning.”

The not quite complete article is here

Wouldn’t you know it? This university is in Florida, the state which simultaneously has an incredible amount of elderly people and is being invaded by Burmese pythons. So I guess they know something about effective disaster prevention.

When I was little, kids used to think my hair was funny. It stuck out in a halo around my head. It wasn’t quite like rudy’s or quite like punky’s. It strangely resembled that of those cabbage patch kids with the moldable corkscrew hairdoes (OH, I’m going way back). I was neither here nor there. In short, I was a Zorse, and sometimes I just felt better mosey-ing around the pasture by myself:

Anyone?

Jon Stewart (via Fox News) informs us all of the good news: 30,000 Burmese pythons are on the prowl in Florida, heading for a plane near you – so according to Stewart, its great news for anyone that had “termination by snake” for the “how is the world going to end?” question.

Just in time for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which I think involves a bunch of penguins who attempt to pilot an airplane, hundreds of penguins have been airlifted back to the South Atlantic by the Brazilian Air Force.

Over a 1000 penguins have washed up on Brazil’s beaches in the past couple of months , probably due to strong currents. By the time most of the penguins landed on the beach they were close to death, so before being sent back to safety they were given shots of glucose, vitamins and antibiotics.

Check out the pictures of the penguins on the move

I don’t know the how, or the when – but a village in eastern India banded together and rescued two elephants from drowning – using some sticks and some rope.

That is amazingly good news!

Watch the video:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7496694.stm

Yup, maybe they do exist. Or did, or possibly still could.

Last week a deer with a single horn in the center of its head was spotted in a nature reserve in Italy. The weird thing – the first thing I thought when I read about it was not “oh wow”, but “they are nature reserves in Italy?”

There are, and apparently they are the kind of nature reserves that house special animals with mythical genetic anomalies.

Long live Unicorn, the one-year old deer! That’s good news for myths and people with imaginations everywhere!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn;_ylt=AomgzZE_hJYDxYA1urUa_76s0NUE

What caused the death of my favorite horse has always been a little bit of a question mark.

Was he poisoned? Was his feed moldy? Since Phar Lap’s death in 1932 there have been many theories. The Australian horse had won 37 out of his 51 starts and had captured the hearts of the nation. Unfortunately that also meant that he was a threat to the members of the racing association – he was eating away at their earnings. With the numbers of enemies mounting, his owners decided that it would be best for him to leave Australia; they entered him in the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico. He won that race, destined to be his last, and mysteriously died days later.

Last week, researchers used six of hairs to prove that within 40 hours of the Phar Lap’s death he had consumed a massive quantity of arsenic.

However, while we now know the cause, half of the question mark remains – was it accidental or was it murder?

http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news?slug=ap-australia-pharlap&prov=ap&type=lgns

2008 is another year without a Triple Crown winner.

This is only good news if you had an office pool and decided to go against the odds and bet against Big Brown. Or if you actually went to the track, or an Off Track Betting location and bet on another horse, cause you would have won a lot of money.

On the good news front – maybe 2009 will be the year for a winner.

Not sure if a cracker got Mr. Yosuke Nakamura to pony up, but pony up he did – to the vet.

The parrot, who had been missing from his house for two weeks had kept mum with the police, but after a few days with a vet he revealed his name and his address.

The Nakamura family had been trying to teach their parrot those details for two years; apparently they knew about his propensity for escaping his cage. Wonder if they had trained him not to speak to the police.

Good news for Yosuke and proof that teaching parrots to speak can actually useful!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24753683/