After a concerned citizen (read: nutjob) presented Leicester City with a Freedom of Information request concerning its emergency plan for a zombie attack , city council officials were forced to admit there wasn’t one. *mind explodes* Ms Wyeth [head of information governance] said she was unaware of any specific reference to a zombie attack in the council’s emergency plan, however some elements of it could be applied if the situation arose. “To you it might seem frivolous and a waste of time… but to different people it actually means something,” said Ms Wyeth. Admittedly, the U.S. Center for Disease Control does have a nationwide plan in place in the event we get hit with an outbreak, the only problem is: it’s a terrible one . No, you know what we really need? A floating city. “Ha, been watching the ‘ Bioshock: Infinite ‘ trailers again?” MAYBE. Leicester City Council ‘not ready’ for zombie attack [bbcnews] Thanks to Ferris, Global, MrChivers, Jack P, Darren and Spikey DaPikey, who actually do have plans in place, all of which involve beheading the shit out of some zombies.

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That’s right folks, I’m calling it. Sometime on or before May 30th. The world may end in 2012, but it all starts in 2011 . BOOM, movie concept. Get that made by fall — I want Shia Laboof attached. If you get up any morning for the next few weeks, you’ll be treated to the sight of all the planets except Saturn arrayed along the ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky. For the last two months, almost all the planets have been hiding behind the sun, but this week they all emerge and are arrayed in a grand line above the rising sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are visible, and you can add Uranus and Neptune to your count if you have binoculars or a small telescope. Now I don’t want to ruin how the world ends, but I will give you a hint: something about gravity fields and planets hitting each other. You ever seen a planet hit another one? They all punch like babies. Except Uranus — it really packs a punch. Get it? I’M ASKING HOW IS YOUR OFFICE CHAIR NOT ON FIRE. Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky [yahoo] and Picture [abovetopsecret] Thanks to matt, who’s already building a bunker. Bunker or pillow fort?

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Rare Six Planet Alignment Heralds Doomsday

I’m pretty sure half the people that sent this in thought it’s an actual robot , but being the astute robot slaya that I am, it wasn’t hard for me to tell this is just a jackass in a robot costume. Don’t get me wrong, I’d still burn that bitch like a witch (or doobie), he just doesn’t pose the threat an actual robot would. Or DOES he? *pew pew!* He doesn’t. Youtube and Youtube (longer, 9:00 video) Thanks to Rich the destroyer, paul, KennethJ, Ted, Mungo9000, chris, Albert, Tuggis, karrameg, Steven, hatcher, Big Bug, parking block and Wendy, who actually knew it was a person the whole time and just wanted to scare me.

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Fake, But Still Burn It With Lasers (You Never Can Be Too Safe): A Scary Dancing Robot

How would you like to wake up to this guy staring at you? You wouldn’t, would you? Okay, how about the guy with the phone? I give him a maybe. Anyway, some scientists (the smart ones) fear that robot intelligence is going too far and we must do something to stop them before they stop (read: kill ) us. Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone. [They] generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon . That’s right, AUTONOMOUS KILLER ROBOTS. You remember Twiki from Buck Rogers? He was one. Bidi-bidi-bidi! Thanks to joe, Red, Daniel, Carmen, jabberw0ck, Rogue Cheddar, Retroprofile, Sarah, Princess Padme’s Masturbation Fantasy and Patrick, who all help me fight the good fight. Fight first, pizza party second.

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