This would not work all that well in an urn but, in addition to its normal application, might be a hot seller in regions populated by vampires and might even work better then this for zombies:
A cemetery in Santiago, Chile is offering its clients coffins with a sensor that detects any movement inside them after they have been buried.
Via Circadian Shift who picked it up from Business Pundit.
I am so tempted to quote the closing paragraph from Michael Berube’s post: Put Him in the Cornfield. It is good on its own but it is much better in full context so go read.
Oh, and think happy thoughts.
Via Electrolite.
The gallery at Geoge Mason University’s Infrastructure Mapping Project has some great visualizations of various parts of North American critical infrastructures, e.g., long haul fiber, the electic power grid, and gaspipelines:
The Infrastructure Mapping Project’s goal is to provide meaningful analysis of critical infrastructure and its interdependencies with vital sectors of the US and global economy. In this pursuit we map a wide variety of networks and phenomena ranging from the Internet the power grid and spam.
Their related research papers are listed here.