Title: “Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy”

Author: Martin Lindstrom

Rank: 98

Blurb: “Marketing visionary Martin Lindstrom has been on the front lines of the branding wars for over twenty years. Here, he turns the spotlight on his own industry, drawing on all he has witnessed behind closed doors, exposing for the first time the full extent of the psychological tricks and traps that companies devise to win our hard-earned dollars.”

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Occupy Wall Street scores again: “A crowd of more than 2,000 people marched up Broadway, past a closed City Hall Park, under the arch of the Municipal Building and massed outside what some mistakenly thought was NYPD headquarters. But most of the chanting horde plopped down in front of One St. Andrew’s Plaza, which houses the U.S. Attorney’s Office, not the NYPD.” [Daily News]

Is Chris Christie too fat to be president? [Yahoo]

“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]

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]