The Undead Thread

People like things to make sense. As a species we tend to find comfort and security in order and the routine. Ironically, (or not) we also have a tendency to be fascinated, if not preoccupied, by the strange and the unknown. We delight in the bizarre and if nothing else, the Internet is chock full of the bizarre. Who cares, you ask? The magic 8 ball says to finish reading this article and ask again later. Swing by WebProWorld forum. Given the fact that WebProWorld is an IT/SEO/Business forum of considerable substance, you might imagine the subject of such a thread to fall into one of those categories. Oddly enough, the Zombocom; I can't decide if its some tacit jab at dotcoms in general or what. I'm ready to sign up though. I want to belong. ClicksToday newsletter a year or two ago. They made the web to TV transition and ended up featured in a Quizno's commercial. Other web to TV transitions have seemed equally unsettling to me. That guy in MSN's butterfly suit I dunno. TV has gone to the net too of course. Bud Light's Wassupp commercial gimmick was dubbed into countless pop culture satires. Widely available editors made it pretty easy to do and before long it was being dubbed into all manners of alternative scenarios'. This is one of a very few commercially driven manifestations that spring to mind. I almost didn't count it since it wasn't really all that disturbing or particularly scary. Then it occurred to me that the commercially spawned variation was plenty frightening enough precisely because it carried a commercial association. These things get everywhere. They span cultures like sidewalk cracks. They're emailed, instant messaged, blogged, posted, written up and phoned. And they are powerful. So what is the secret? Is it luck? Coincidence? Blind chance that these things explode like they do? Where is that fine line between the inane and the sublime? If you would like, swing by