There's this website called boingboing.net out there that usually has some pretty interesting things on it to look at to waste your time while on the Internets. A lot of things are posted every day, so if you are lazy, you might miss some cool things. If I had been lazy, I would've missed one of our very own readers getting some Internet stardom of his own today. Almost makes me think that I've missed on other moments of his stardom.

Anyway, my older brother is at grad school at USC and a project he has been working on for a while now is called MobZombies. Basically the premise is you're a guy running around, trying to escape from a rapidly increasing crowd of zombies, out to bite you and transmit Solanum, the zombie virus that is 100% communicable and 100% fatal (Brooks, 2003). You get bombs to place down while you're running to make a bunch of zombies explode, but that's only going to help you for a few seconds because in no time, they will all be back and in larger numbers. So you try to stay alive as long as possible, which, as the seconds go by, seems more and more impossible.

But that's only like 10% of the game. You don't just play this game on any kind of computer. You play it on a hand-held computer while wearing a clip on your pants that has an accelerometer in it that tells the computer, wirelessly, your speed as you physically move around the room, trying to get away from the zombies that are approaching your character on the screen. It must be pretty hilarious watching people play this. Too bad I've never gotten to play it :(

I don't even have my own t-shirt, which apparently are available for $11 at mobzombies. com

Here's the boingboing link that has a picture of a guy playing the game: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/04/mobzombies.html


Also, one complainy little brat named David Meisner is responsible for the Garfield/Get Fuzzy joke and has requested that he get credit. Here's your credit: