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America's Next Top Zombie Idol

Not Even Zombies Are Safe From Reality TV

VH1's new zombie reality TV show, America's Next Top Zombie Idol, could introduce the world to steamy hot tub zombie make outs, backstabbing undead confessionals about racist zombie roommate, zombies getting in fights at bars, and competitive brain eating. The show's premise is simple: "Eight zombies live together and compete for the winning spot in a reality TV competition." More »

10:25 AM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Meredith Woerner
1,719 views, 21 comments

mad social science

Your Future Will Be Filled with Promiscuous Friends

Reality television, consumed with liberal doses of MySpace and Facebook, will make friendships of the future far more promiscuous. So says a newly-released study about people who invest a lot of time in creating profiles of themselves online (which is increasingly all of us). The authors of the study have discovered an intriguing trend in the way people are re-define "friendship" after hanging out a lot online. The good news is that current trends all point to more casual sex for people who "friend" each other online. More »

3:35 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,146 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: @The Blow Leprechaun: You're more like the old generation of Internet netizens, while myspace/facebook/et al is the "new" generation. I didn't think that there would be a well-defined Generation 1/ Generation 2 gap in online life, but I think more »

the long walk

Murder As Entertainment In Darabont's Future Reality Project

Frank Darabont recently let it slip that he owns the rights to The Long Walk, which was a short story included in Stephen King's The Bachman Books back in 1979. It's an extremely dark tale set in the near future about a new form of entertainment that has the whole country held in rapt attention, and serves as a strangely fitting commentary on the current state of reality television. A pool of 100 "walkers" are selected to participate in a forced walk where they have to maintain at least a four mile-per-hour pace, or else they "buy their ticket," which isn't exactly a prize. The story follows 16-year-old Ray Garraty, and we see the horrific reality of the walk through his eyes. Garabont has been something of a filmmaking dynamo recently. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Kevin Kelly
46 views, Comment