The finnish version of the TV show “The Bachelor” is about to air its first episode today. The concept is that single women compete over the course of several episodes for the affection of a likewise signle “dream” bachelor. Please see picture of the dream bachelor below:

We are looking into the details of the story to verify wether it is just

a bad joke, alltough it does make sense to learn that he is single.

Scientists and astrologists in southern Finland have predicted that the sun can be expected to rise tomorrow in lapland for the first time since last November.

The sighting of the sun, which is expected to last nearly a full hour around midday tomorrow, signifies the end of kaamos(*) and will bring much waited relief for those Lapland residents who have managed to hold on to their sanity through the period of darkness.

The first sun rise is also traditionally a big day for the biology and psychology departments at the university of Oulu, where teams of graduate students have been working through the past months preparing the lapland rooster population for their first dawn.

During this 6 year long study, the teams have been testing the use of computers and multimedia animations in their efforts to introduce and familiarize roosters with the sun rise in the absence of the real sun. The costly study has been mainly funded by private donations by a well known international software company.

Despite positive results the research teams are disappointed with the fact that not more than 10% of this psychologically handicapped rooster population are ever expected to crow at sunrise without additional simoultaneous audio stimulus.

(*) kaamos = a period during which the sun never shows itself in Lapland

“It’s close to midnight…And something evil’s lurking from the dark…” Zombies have come a long way since the King of Pop released his famous song and brought the Zombie community to everybody’s attention. The 3rd annual zombie walk or zombie mile was held in Helsinki yesterday in plain daylight.

Although their grounbreaking dance moves on the video to Michael Jackson’s hit song “Thriller” almost 25 years ago did earn them some recognition and allowed the community as a whole to enjoy some positive publicity, most of the press they have received through out history has been pretty bad. People were saying “sure danced hot but what have they done lately?”

It hasn’t been until recent years that humans have begun to understand that even they may be missing body parts, in most cases zombies still have feelings too. The annual Zombie Walk has been one of those events that have helped the living understand the emotional needs of the dead, undead or otherwise non living.

In just a few years the Z-walk has grown into a much awaited event and easily the biggest social event of they year for the undead Finn.

This year the walk was once again organized superbly and there were no incidents. It was clear to all spectators that every corpse out there was just there to enjoy the brisk Helsinki autumn.

The official count was 113 undead from all over Finland, with some corpses unlucky to be tied up in zombie business elsewhere sending the odd bodypart to lend a helping hand (or leg) to the organizers or just in a show of solidarity and support . With the number of the dead in a slow but sure rise organizers expect next years event to be even more popular.

It is the peaceful reputation of the Helsinki Zombie Walk that has earned it international reputation as the unofficial Zombie Love Parade.

“Zombies are slowly beginning to realize that being undead doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t have an active social life” says one of the organizers, “you just don’t have to feel obliged to rot away in some dark cellar by yourself anymore”. Loneliness is a big problem in the zombie community, and recently the internet has helped a lot, but its clear that loneliness still a massive issue.

The Zombie walk is a great event to meet the other undead, to make new fiends. Its also a great opportunity for the career minded corpses to do some serious networking.

3 single zombies making the most out of the afternoon over a cat and a bottle of wine