The Centers for Disease Control has posted information on how to be prepared for the zombiepocalypse.

There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.

Uh huh…preparations for a “real” emergency disguised for the zombiepocalypse? And so close to judgement day? They…know…something! I’ll be updating my kit when I get home!

[...] but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work).

I’m guessing they wear red shirts around the office?

A man tried to take a pony on a train in Wales.

After a conductor refused him entry, the man returned to the ticket booth where he tried to buy two tickets – for himself and the animal.

I love the CCTV pic of the man trying to buy tickets; the pony looks like it’s patiently waiting, like the process is part of a normal commute for it.

A book from 1790 has been returned to a library in the town where it was originally borrowed.

The story of the three books began in 1796, when the Federal Society Library of “Cambden,” then part of Lincoln County, was founded. Not much is known about the library, Bilodeau said, other than the fact that it had about 200 volumes. The Goldsmith history was stamped number 53, still clearly visible even after all this time.

No word on the late fees.

Want to own The Dude’s sweater from “The Big Lebowski”? Well, it’s up for auction and only $11,000 right now.

If you want a similar version from the company that made the original, they’re a little cheaper.

UPDATE: The auction has disappeared.

Hot on the heels of losing a cobra, the Bronx Zoo has lost a peacock, and it’s on the loose in NYC.

Earlier in the day, the feathered fugitive was spotted outside the E. 180th St. subway station. As excited commuters snapped cell phone pictures, she dined on a discarded hamburger bun before sauntering across several lanes of traffic.

Kind of reminds me of that line in “The Hunt for Red October” where Dr. Pelt is sitting with the Russian ambassador hearing about how the Russian’s have not heard from a second submarine in some time, and says (condescendingly),  “You’ve lost ANOTHER one?”

@Peanutweeter, a relatively new Tumblr, “matches kinda random Twitter posts with somewhat less than random Peanuts comic strips by Charles Schulz”.

Some of them are quite a fitting mashup between tweet and comic. The expression on Charlie Brown’s face on this one is perfect.

I admit it…when I woke up on Friday morning, I turned on the BBC and watched the royal wedding for about an hour (and when I say “watched” I mean that it was on the TV while I made breakfast, browsed the news, etc.). After seeing and listening to what was going on over there, I am not surprised at some of the facts that the BBC reported:

The National Grid said its figures showed a huge surge in demand for power after the service – equivalent to one million kettles being boiled – when the royal couple returned to Buckingham Palace.

I did notice that there was a lot of horse poop on the streets back to the palace. Don’t they tell the horses to go before the trip?