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Actually, what everyone thinks is the mayan calendar was actually a graphical warning of what would cause the end of the world. Here, take a look at the "calendar": #2012
11/11/09
@Skunky: Now, let's look at what they had seen when they looked into the future. #2012
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@Skunky: #2012
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@mr_dude: #2012
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...for a thousand summers... #2012
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Saddest. Cartoon. Episode. Ever. #2012
11/10/09
[www.shibumi.org] #2012
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[www.ted.com]
A TED talk by editor-in-chief of Discover magazine, Stephen Petranek. #2012
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I mean, how many centuries does our calendar have? When does it "run out"? Well, it doesn't. Neither does theirs. #2012
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IIRC, Mrs. Overclock (a.k.a. Dr. Overclock, Medicine Woman) and I got dressed up and went out dancing in Downtown Denver on December 31, 1999. After quite a bit of champagne, after midnight we peeked outside, saw the traffic lights were still working, and went back to the party.
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Hey Chip, good to see a fellow Denver resident here! #2012
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Jerk. Funny, in hindsight, but not at the time. #2012
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We should try to round up some other Denver/Boulder/Longmont IO9oids in meatspace sometime. #2012
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Out of town for a long weekend - just saw this message.
I live, with my fiancee, in northwest City of Denver in the west highlands neighborhood, and I work out in western Lakewood near the Denver West area, so we are not so far away from you.
yeah, if there are a few other Io9 people in the area that would be cool.
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We are a little closer to the old Elitch Gardens location near 38th & Tennyson than we are to 32nd & Lowell, But Common Grounds is a great coffee shop, and I have been to that Heidi's a few times! #2012
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11/04/09
"Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.
However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death."
[www.guardian.co.uk]
i don't believe that zombies are in any way the American Godzilla; what country other than Japan has Godzilla -- a giant monster that alternately destroys and helps humans? zombies appear in America's film, yes, but also Japan, the UK, Italy, and so on. death is a universal fear, but zombies are also a malleable (and cheaply-produced) image, as many have pointed out.
if anything, i'd suppose that the American fear of technology, as represented onscreen, is borne by actual machines -- Terminators, AI gone haywire (HAL9K, "Stealth"'s fighter plane), uncanny valley cyborgs, replicants and androids. we worry about being replaced or destroyed by our creations. sometimes they rescue us (actual or metaphorical) and thereby redeem their existence, and by extension, we forgive ourselves for creating them. #zombies
11/04/09
(ducks and covers) #zombies
11/04/09
[en.wikipedia.org]
Jiang Shi (traditional Chinese: or; pinyin: jiāngshī; literally "stiff corpse"), sometimes called Chinese vampires by Westerners (despite the fact that they might bear a closer resemblance to zombies), are reanimated corpses that hop around, killing living creatures to absorb life essence (气/氣qì) from their victims. #zombies
11/04/09
And I must point out the fact that western zombie are translated as "Jiang Shi" in Chinese language, while vamires are translated as literally "blood sucking monster". #zombies
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Personally I will suggest "驅魔探長" (Magic Cop, or "驅魔警察" in Mainland China) if you want to see a little more modernized Jiang Shi movies. It's a 1990 movies so don't expect too much but it does incorporate already awesome Hong Kong style Kung-Fu fighting and well-developed Hong Kong style cop/detective movie with more stylish Chinese zombies (and zombie lords) nicely.
[www.youtube.com]
Here is part of the final scene of the movie, in which the detectives found the shrine of the zombie lord (who killed people, turn them into zombies and use them for drug trafficking) and defeated her. The zombie lord here is not fully your traditional Jiang Shi but you can still find some Jiang Shi characters. For example (at least in its true form) the Jiang Shi can't see living people, but can follow living thing's breath. So one of the ways to escape Jiang Shi is holding your breath.
[www.youtube.com]
And this is one of my favorite. There is no Kung-Fu fighting in this scene and little special effect, but when you figure out what's going on you really can feel the intense of the spiritual fight between the detective and the zombie lord. #zombies
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