ALL YOU ZOMBIES: Taking a Look at the Latest Zombie Fiction

Zombies: they just won't stay dead...and neither will books about them. With more titles shambling from the shelves at your local bookstores each week, zombie fiction remains as popular as it ever, and that's great news for me. I have an insatiable hunger for zombie stories and novels - a hunger fierce enough to rival your average ghoul's lust for fresh, tasty brains. Happily, there's been plenty to choose from during the last few months. Let's take a look at a few of them. Apocalyptic fiction powerhouse Permuted Press has developed a reputation as one of the best sources around for quality zombie fiction, and Mark E. Rogers' The Dead is a great example of that. Known best as the writer-illustrator behind the Samurai Cat books, Rogers' first foray into the zombie genre brings a uniquely theological angle to the living dead. Earth's final days arrive, and with them hordes of corpses possessed by Satan's fallen angels. Gary Holland and his family arrive in New Jersey for his father's funeral, only to find themselves hunted by mobs of zombies. The Best of All Flesh from Elder Signs Press - no slouch themselves when it comes to fine zombie horror - gathers the best stories from the award-winning Books of Flesh anthologies (The Book of All Flesh, The Book of More Flesh, The Book of Final Flesh). Edited by original series editor James Lowder, The Best of All Flesh features works from Tobias Buckell, Scott Edelman, Ed Greenwood, Jim C. Hines, Tom Piccirilli and many more. Horror and even humor abounds within this satisfying anthology. If you like The Best of All Flesh, you might want to try Pallid Light: the Waking Dead, also from Elder Signs Press. Readers may already know author William Jones from the many supplements he's written for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu horror role-playing game. Pallid Light's tough-guy protagonist Rand Clay - an ex-con that knows his way around a gun - isn't exactly the hero type, but when the city of Temperance, Illinois becomes overwhelmed by the living dead, Clay may be their best hope. Finally, just hitting shelves at your local bookstore is The New Dead, a zombie anthology edited by Christopher Golden, the author of The Myth Hunters and co-author of Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. This collection features all-new fiction from big names like Max Brooks, Joe Hill, Kelly Armstrong, David Wellington, Brian Keene and Aimee Bender.

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Know Your Ingredients: Rosemary Extract

What it is Rosemary Extract is derived from the perennial herb rosemary (Rosmarinus Officinalis). What it does Rosemary Extract is used in a wide variety of beauty products for its antioxidant properties. In addition, it is also has antimicrobial properties and can therefore be used as a preservative. In this case, it works by preventing the [...]

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Valentino Brings the Most Luxurious Couture to Your Feet

US$4,700 is the tag for this couture shoes from Valentino, and if you check out the details closely, you’ll know why. This gorgeous and very fashionable pair is divinely made of lace floral applique with leather underlay. Beautifully crafted in gothic style, they are dedicated to every couture freak out there!

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SXSW live: John and Jonah, goofballs

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, actors John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill were plumping their comedy of discomfort “Cyrus” in an Austin hotel suite. The movie, written and directed by one-time Austin boys Mark and Jay Duplass and co-starring Marisa Tomei, had its local premiere Saturday night at the Paramount. Chris Garcia: Jonah, a while ago you’d seen the Duplass brothers’ “The Puffy Chair” and immediately wanted to work with them. Jonah Hill: That’s exactly what happened. I saw their short film “Intervention” first and followed everything from then on. I picked up on a unique voice they had, and it was clear that no one was doing it the way they were doing it. When you see that, you want to collaborate with those people. What’s so unique about what they do? John C. Reilly: They don’t know how to make a movie the way most people make movies. They’re truly unique, because they just taught themselves how to do it with very little means, so their personal style just totally comes through. And they have a really strong b.s.-detector. They know when something seems fake and movie-ish and too manufactured. They’re really in tune with honesty. Hill: They stand by what they want to do and will never deviate from their intentions. I know they give the actors a lot of freedom on the set. They don’t block as much, shoot long takes and keep the camera rolling when scenes end, which a few other directors also do. Hill: Judd Apatow does a lot of that. Reilly: Robert Altman, Lars Von Trier. Hill: I heard that whoever directed “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” did that. I heard that the chipmunks had quite a bit of freedom on “The Squeakquel” to riff and a lot of that stuff wasn’t in the script. Reilly: Squeak! Hill: Yeah, to squeak. Honestly, I heard that it was a really open set. Reilly: (Laughing) Don’t do that. Hill: (Laughing): Well, Theodore, the mouse that’s Theodore, is a clasically trained actor. Reilly: No, Alvin is clearly the natural. Hill: Alvin is the teen heart-throb, but Theodore — he was in the Steppenwolf Theatre with you, I believe. Reilly: Oh, Jo-Jo. How much improv do Mark and Jay allow? Did you rehearse first? Reilly: We didn’t rehearse. We’d all read the script and just show up and have some discussions about the general tone of the movie before shooting. They didn’t even want us to do one blocking rehearsal. They’d set up the scene so we could move around wherever we wanted to and they warned the crew that was going to be happening. Most days they would tell us not to do what was written in the script but to say things the way we would say it. Even on days when I thought, “Wow, do we even have a movie here? Is this going to gel together?,” I always knew it was at least going to sound original and fresh, because this is how people talk. It was just Jonah, Marisa and I trying to work it out. Your love of Austin precedes you, Jonah. How many times have you been here? Hill: Probably 10. Reilly: Damn. Hill: I come out for fun. I’ve come three or four times for my movies and come back with my friends to drink beer and go to the Alamo Drafthouse. Waterloo Video closed, which I just found out and is very sad for me. John, I totally don’t care, but you kind of lied to me last time I interviewed you when you were in town. You said you weren’t playing Sasquatch in “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” but you did. Reilly: I didn’t lie to you. Sasquatch is real. During that same interview I think I offended you by describing a lot of your characters as “schlubby.” But now, in the “Cyrus” press notes, that’s exactly what they call you. Reilly: Well, no one wants to hear themselves described as schlubby. You hear that four times in a day and it’s like, enough with the (expletive) schlubby already. A schlub. It’s kind of a lovable word. It is a lovable word. Reilly: It’s better than schlemiel. Hill: Schlimazel. I would refer to you as a schlimazel. Reilly: What’s the difference? Hill: Schlemiel, schlimazel, hasen-something incorporated! Reilly: Hasenpfeffer incorporated! Can I just take your pictures and get out of here? Hill: What? (Laughing) You have a strange interview style … Reilly holds up a sketch he drew of himself. He’s on a skateboard.

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LOST Spoiler – Body Count (Read at Your Own Risk!)

How many die between now and the finale? We know.

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Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans

Say Goodbye to Unlimited Wireless Data Plans is an interesting editorial at the Gizmodo. "You know how you pay a fixed monthly fee for your phone, and can check email and Twitter, surf the web and the Yelp app anytime...

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DB Elephant SQLite Converter 1.4

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How To: Turn Your Web Apps Into Real Apps [How To]

When you use a site like Gmail, you have to decide: Do I want to use the service's website, or do I want to use it through an app, like Outlook? Here's how to get the best of both worlds. What I'm talking about is something called site-specific browsers, which are essentially dedicated apps derived from the browsers already installed on your system, designed to load up a single web app. Nothing else. The thing is, limiting the app's functionality to a single website means it can do native-like things, like have its own icon, serve up notifications in the OS X dock, and be launched from Spotlight or the Start Menu like a regular, native program. It's also a great way to run multiple instances of the same service—like two Gmail accounts—without one forcing the other to log out. And hell, you use web apps like Facebook, Last.fm and Gmail just as much and just as hard as you do regular apps, so haven't they earned their own icons? Their own windows, so they don't get lost in a sea of tabs? Their own notifications? Their own places in your application menus? Their own system processes, so a browser crash won't knock them out, too? Their own lives? Yeah, sure they have. Here's how to make it happen. Mac OS X: Fluid The best tool for creating site-specific apps in OS X is called Fluid. It's a free framework for creating your own site-specific apps, based on WebKit, like Apple's Safari or Google's Chrome. So! 1. Download it Fluid here, and drag the app over to your Applications folder. 2. Since the site-specific browsers you'll be creating will have their own icons, you'll need to download those. If you don't, Fluid will pull the site's favorites icon to use as the system icon, which is fine, but can look a bit rough, especially if you run your OS X dock large, or use CoverFlow a lot. This Flickr group has hundreds of available icons, covering just about any site you can imagine. To use them, download the full-size .PNG from Flickr. 3. Create your app! When you open Fluid, You'll be prompted with a window asking you for a URL, a site name (Which will be the app's name, as far as your OS is concerned), a place to save the app (the Applications folder by default) and an option to either use the site's favicon or a custom icon. Fill the fields out, and hit create. 4. Launch your app. The first time you start the app, you'll be prompted to log into the service. After the initial login, though, Fluid will remember your details, so that when you start the app again, it'll be all ready to go. 5. Customize! Ok, so you've got your web app—now it's time to tweak. If you want to change the look of the site, or how certain parts of it function, Fluid supports client-side userscripts, which basically let you reformat the page, or add functionality to it, however you want. From within a Fluid app, click the Script icon in the Menu Bar, and click "Browse Userscripts.org" and see if you find anything you like. If you do, the script should be downloaded and copied to YourUserName/Library/Application Support/Fluid/SSB/YourApp'sName/Userscripts. There are also a small number of Fluid plugins, which give Fluid greater native app-like powers. These are scattered around the internet, and a good central resource is hard to come by. This Google string tends to work pretty well for finding them, though. In addition, Fluid itself has some application settings to play around with, most of which are self-explanatory. One that's not, and that comes in handy a lot, is the "Allow Browsing to any URL" option under Settings > Advanced: This prevents new windows opened in Fluid from opening in your default browser instead, and cures most of the issues I've come across with using Fluid with less popular sites that may not have automatic presets built into Fluid. Windows: Prism Prism takes a slightly different approach to the creation of site-specific browsers, in that it's an extension for Firefox, not its own app. The creation process, though, isn't terribly different. Here's the routine: 1. Download the Prism extension for Firefox here. (Note: some people have issues with Prism freezing during the setup process, or find core functions, like minimizing to the system tray, missing in this version. In that case, download the last version of Prism right here—it should fix everything, without sacrificing any major features.) 2. Navigate to the webpage you want to convert into an app, let it load, and select "Convert Website to Application" from the Tools menu in Firefox. You'll be prompted with these options. Fill them out as you please: If you'd like to use a custom icon, as opposed to the website's favorite's icon, you should download a full-res .PNG file from this Flickr group. These are icons created with Fluid (above) in mind, so some may have an OS X-like aesthetic, but they will work, and in the context of Windows 7, they usually look pretty great. And that's it! Prism isn't as immediately customizable as Fluid for OS X, but it gets the job done. Alternative: Prism supports something called "Bundles", which automatically apply settings and application icons for popular websites with a single click. Here are a few to try. Alternative II: Chrome for Windows offers similar functionality to Prism, albeit in a rather basic, stripped-down form. If your only goal is to isolate web apps in their own windows, though, this'll work fine, and takes just a few seconds: newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R0Mgf66GOr4&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[],"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} ); Hat tip to Lifehacker for introducing us to Prism. And that's it! If you've got any great icon, user script or Prism bundle resources to share, throw them in the comments—your feedback is hugely important to our Saturday How To guides. And if you have any topics you'd like to see covered here, please let me know. Happy web-app-Pinocchio-ing, folks!

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Your Taxi Driver Is Probably Stealing From You

Unless you are of the especially anal variety, you probably don't spend your cab rides closely scrutinizing the meter. Perhaps you're distracted by the repetitive offerings of Taxi TV, or maybe you're just concentrating all your efforts on not booting all over the place. Taxi drivers know this, apparently, which is why they've been conning the hell out of you for God knows how many years — probably forever. See, a few weeks ago, one cabbie was fingered by the taxi authorities for repeatedly charging higher out-of-city rates for intra-city trips, to the tune of $40,000 extra dollars. Someone at the Taxi and Limousine Commission probably realized that this couldn't be the only guy pulling this scam. So they undertook a fleetwide review, and the results should make you mildly irate: "35,558 hacks overcharged their passengers at least once," but "about 3,000 drivers were repeat offenders, switching their meters to the higher out-of-city rate on trips within city limits more than 100 times each." Mind you that this is only for a 26-month period analyzed by investigators. There's no reason to believe cabbies haven't been pulling this same ruse since the dawn of time. And it's only because of those mandatory GPS devices that their scheme was uncovered. No wonder they fought so hard against it. 36,000 city cabbies overcharged passengers by $8.3M in widespread meter scam [NYDN] Read more posts by Dan Amira Filed Under: jerks, schemes, taxis

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What Should You Know Before Buying Cheap Aion Kinah?

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