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]

nojo
7:00 am • Friday • September 30, 2011
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ManchuCandidate

7:04 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

1st World Problems.

Benedick

9:23 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

I have no idea what this means.

Snorri Haraldsson

9:25 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

Á Íslandi höfum við ekki zombie. Við höfum codfish.

Benedick

9:26 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

Oh my God, he’s back.

Snorri Haraldsson

9:33 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

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.

Benedick

9:40 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

@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.

Snorri Haraldsson

9:47 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

@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.

Benedick

9:48 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

@Snorri Haraldsson: You just try it. I’d like to see you try.

Snorri Haraldsson

9:53 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

@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.

Benedick

9:55 am • Friday • September 30, 2011

@Snorri Haraldsson: IM me at limeybastard164@gmail. Do you have any recent pictures?

lynnlightfoot

12:04 pm • Friday • September 30, 2011

@Benedick: Has Snorri been eating lutefisk? I believe it’s a powerful neurotoxin.

Tommmcatt Be Fat, And That Be That

4:09 pm • Friday • September 30, 2011

Performance Art is neither performance nor art, in my humble opinion. Especially if it is really funny and I didn’t think of it first.

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