Did you see the latest CDC (yes, Center for Disease Control) post about being prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse?  Yes, it’s real.  And yes, it’s a stunt.  But it’s a good one.

The CDC feels that anyone who follows their preparedness plans for a zombie invasion will also be prepared for any other type of disaster.  See their recommendations at Preparedness 101:  Zombie Apocalypse.

And watch out for all types of disasters.  =)

Thanks to loyal reader Matt for this one!

BuzzFeed’s Amy Sly has designed the covers of seven books to fill the Social Media and Marketing sections of the Daily Prophet’s bestseller lists.  After all, if you can’t put your wizarding experience to profitable use, how are you ever going to get booked on the lecture circuit?

A fun way to spend a few minutes, and I found this through HolyKaw! , ‘natch.

Take a moment to really look at this photo.  The caption reads, “Surreal scene:  A boy who survived the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami plays in a toy car in front of an upended real car in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on April 6.”

One month has passed and the recovery efforts continue.  Many of the problems are so big, so ecologically and economically challenging, that a stranded car like this one just doesn’t make the action item list.

In case the msnbc slideshow The Week in Pictures: March 31-April 7 opens up at slide #1, this particular image is slide #9.  Photo credit to Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP – Getty Images.

I love Chick-fil-A, and I have for years. Not only is the food delicious, it’s not bad on the scale of fast food nutrition. Probably shouldn’t make a steady diet of it, but really it’s better than lots of other stuff out there.

And I love the Chick-fil-A cows. I have several small plush cows with signs that my family members have gotten over the years (probably in kids meals). But I guess I hadn’t realized that the cows have their own website and merchandise.

If you’re a fan, you have to go:

Cow Campaign History
Cow Merchandise
Cow’s Own Website

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you:

• are not from/have never been to the south
• only eat chicken from KFC
• don’t know what you’re missing
• all of the above

The Axis of Awesome, an Australian “Comedy Rock Band,” has put together a musical education for those of you that are aspiring music legends: all the greatest hits from the last 40 years can be played with the same 4 chords. To demonstrate, they play 38 songs in 5:31.

Axis of Awesome – 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)

This is soooo worth your 5 minutes! Thanks to loyal readers Faith and Matt for this one … always bringing me extraordinary stuff.

Family warning:  some minor use of the “F bomb” on the above linked video, YouTube.com

Since I recently put up a link to the WordPress theme Thesis, I’ve been fielding questions about whether I really use it. Yes, I do. But I didn’t have in on this site until recently.

Take a look at this gallery of sites running Thesis.

I have used Thesis 1.8 on several projects, and now am adding it to One Extraordinary Thing. Thesis, from DIYThemes.com, is an incredibly flexible, very SEO friendly, unimaginably easy to use theme that makes powerful programming control available to those of us that are not programmers.

They will even let you test drive it 30 days and receive a full refund. But you won’t want the refund because it’s absolutely extraordinary.

And YouTube, too.  Spending 2:08 laughing myself silly over Twin Boys Have In-Depth Discussion.  It’s funny right away, but gets even better as the conversation goes on because they become more animated while making their point / counterpoint.

While there, I also discovered Taekwondo Toddlers, which is a real competitive match in several rounds that lasts 4:37 before both a winner is declared.

I KNOW that those of you who know me get tired of just how much I enjoy a good grammar fail.  But I just can’t resist them … sort of like catnip for writers.  As if the play on movie title weren’t bad enough, the missing comma in the description makes this downright gross!

I found this through retweet by Elisa Camahort of Blogher.  She gives credit to Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish.

The past year has been that odd combination of time rushing by and time standing still.  Like most people, I can’t believe another year is gone … but at the same time I’m thinking, “Has it only been one year?”

To conclude One Extraordinary Thing neatly, I have published the details of my one year blogging experiment on this page, Did I Make It?

For the future, my plans are to continue to blog at about the current rate of 3-or-so new posts per week.

To all of you that stuck with me, thank you.  You have indeed been extraordinary, and I remain grateful.

Did you know you could rent designer dresses for special occasions?  The website that offers this, RentTheRunway.com, has an attractive program that offers many dresses for as little as $50, and it is free to join.

The process is simple: choose a dress AND a backup size (included in price), schedule a delivery date, attend your event in a gorgeous dress, and then return both sizes in a pre-paid package.  RentTheRunway even takes care of dry cleaning.

The website carries accessories such as purses and jewelry, and they make suggestions for matching your chosen dress. 

The large and varied dress collection is divided up into detailed search categories by designer, event, color, length, feature, or body type. 

Who wouldn’t love an opportunity to wear a dazzling designer dress that we could probably not afford otherwise?  Really, it is extraordinarily simple.