“Attention, Florida: Today is the last day to legally buck a bronco, hump a horse, grope a goat, or perform any other activities related to barnyard bangin’. Senate Bill 344, which bans ‘sexual contact’ and ‘sexual conduct’ with animals, goes into effect on Saturday.” [Broward/Palm Beach NewTimes, via jwmcsame]

“Mike Huckabee has been approached by Republican and conservative activists unhappy with the current crop of presidential hopefuls and he is considering entering the fray, two sources who have spoken with Huckabee told Reuters.” [via Political Wire]

Occupy Wall Street: “Radiohead will play a surprise show for #occupywallstreet today at four in the afternoon.”

Wall Street Journal: “#Radiohead spox on #OccupyWallStreet performance: ‘we can officially say its not happening'”

[via TPM]

“No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
— U.S. Constitution, Fifth Amendment

“The constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force.”
— Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444, 447 (1969)

[American Citizen and Al-Qaeda Supporter Killed by U.S. Drone Attack]

Our guest columnists are Mark Graham, Taylor Shelton, Matthew Zook and Monica Stephens, of the Oxford Internet Institute.

Using a keyword search for “zombies”, the following map visualizes the absolute concentrations of references within the Google Maps database. The map reveals two important spatial patterns. First, much of the world lacks any content mentioning “zombies” whatsoever. Second, and related, the highest concentrations of zombies in the Geoweb are located in the Anglophone world, especially in large. The results either provide a rough proxy for the amount of English-language content indexed over our planet, or offer an early warning into the geographies of the impending zombie apocalypse.

Mapping Zombies [Oxford Internet Institute, via Nerdist]

[Des Moines Register]

Our guest columnist is the increasingly desperate Rufus Gifford of the Obama campaign.

I’m the national finance director here at OFA.

I know we’ve been sending you a lot of email lately. That’s because we’re staring down a critical fundraising deadline tomorrow at midnight.

You know what that means for your inbox, but let me give you a sense of what that looks like around here.

The staff and I are working around the clock, powered by too much coffee. It’s been way too long since we called our moms. And we’ve all had more pizza and bad takeout in the past few weeks than anyone should have in a year…

If you’re able to, will you chip in $3 today?

[via email/Nabisco]