The Sun Never Rises on the Zombie Empire
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]
1st World Problems.
I have no idea what this means.
Á Íslandi höfum við ekki zombie. Við höfum codfish.
Oh my God, he’s back.
Þú ert dónalegur og óþægilegt Limey fruitcake. Þú ert supercilious og leiðinlegur. Hér í Grundarfirði við gerum þola ekki slíka bahavior. Ég höfða til allra sanngjarn-sinnaður Stinquers að ávíta unproked árásir þessa órótt manneskja.
@Snorri Haraldsson: Piss off, you boring little man. Get a proper avatar. It’s like being followed around by the school cretin. Go back to Gawker where you belong. We try to maintain a certain degree of intelligence around here. We don’t need Scandinavian riffraff ballsing it up.
@Benedick: You. No one like. You síld-innmatur.You no good no fun rassinn sjúga upp í nefið. I would punch in face. You cry like biskup þegar hann fékk typpið hans fastur í Breyta. Me I spýta on Gawker. You need good smack like a óþekkur sjómaður.
@Snorri Haraldsson: You just try it. I’d like to see you try.
@Benedick: The blood of Egill Skallagrímsson rennur í æðum mínum. Ég er mjög Viking. Ég er hávaxinn og ljóshærður með peircing blá augu. Burtséð frá glímu I endurskapa sjálf með margar íþróttir en ég njóta einnig rómantíska kvöld fyrir framan öskrandi eld.
@Snorri Haraldsson: IM me at limeybastard164@gmail. Do you have any recent pictures?
@Benedick: Has Snorri been eating lutefisk? I believe it’s a powerful neurotoxin.
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