Welcome to “Zombie-free Wednesday”. In a change from the apocablog’s “all zombies, all the time”, this will be the only article today that will mention zombies. Promise.

Not to be confused with “Diary of the Dead”, George A. Romero’s new zombie flick, “The Zombie Diaries” is a British zombie film about people infected with a strain of bird flu that kills them and brings them back as the familiar living dead. More precisely, it’s about survivors who video-blog their efforts to hold out against the zombies. I used the word video-blog; the description of the film didn’t… I wonder who’ll be left to watch the videos. And will they have batteries?

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Max Brooks, son of Mel Brooks, and author of “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” and “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, is certainly getting around. In one day we see him in the news at both Salt Lake City Utah, and Hartford Connecticut. Brooks is touring in support of the book, which is a best-seller.

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It must be “zombie monday”.

Christopher Hutsul has a great recounting of last year’s Toronto Zombie Walk, up on The Toronto Star, including their encounter with “United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere”.

This year’s Toronto zombie walk took place on October 22nd, and so far I haven’t seen any reports of anything amiss. It even has its own web site, at http://www.torontozombiewalk.com/.

Poor Ving Rhames. He’s a decent actor. He really needs a new agent. After starring in 2004’s “Dawn of the Dead”, itself a remake of the original George A. Romero “Dawn of the Dead”, he somehow finds himself again in another zombie film remake - this time, the remake of “Day of the Dead”.

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While, not strictly speaking, apocalyptic in nature, you might consider this to be apocalyptically bad. Or silly. Or WTF.

One swamp monster wasn’t enough. Both DC and Marvel Comics had to have their own swamp monsters. And while Marvel’s Man-Thing often seemed a rip-off of DC’s Swamp Thing, Man-Thing actually debuted a month before Swamp Thing did.

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Sorry for missing Flu Pandemic Week. My bad… really, our DSL’s bad.

And we’re not just talking bird flu, here. The Flu Wiki has a discussion of how to prepare for a flu pandemic, what it means, what the impact may be, why it might hit us worse today than years ago.
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Sorry for the downtime last week. We had DSL (”Digital Subscriber Line” - more like “Damned Subscriber Line” - not “Damned Small Linux”) problems that took a while for our ISP to sort out, which then evolved into routing problems. Everything seems to be stable now.

Engadget reports on the most recent sign of the impending apocalypse: video advertising embedded in rest room hand dryers. This particular dryer was found in an airport in Melbourne, Australia. Photo credit to Flickr user avlxyz.

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ABC Online (Australian Broadcasting Network) has a brief roundup of zombie information, with an update on George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, a mention of a British film “The Zombie Diaries”, and the fact that Max Brooks’ World War Z is being adapted as a film for 2008.

Via: Articulate: Zombie Watch: ‘Diary of the Dead’. October 21, 2006. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corp)