If the world was coming to an end, and you could save just one thing, what would it be?
EarthVitalList.com is a companion website for the new feature film remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still", with Keanu Reeves
and Jennifer Connelly
. Visitors to the site are encouraged to vote for the "vital items" they would most want to save if the world came to an end, as well as create their own list of up to 12 "vital items".
"Vital Items" listed so far have ranged from the Bible and the works of Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare (the latter fictitiously wiped out in an episode of "Red Dwarf"), to artifacts from war museums "to remind us of the horrors of war", all the way down to Diet Coke and computers equipped with Windows Vista (I can only guess at Danny's reaction if the latter comes out on top).
An account to one of several sites, including MySpace and facebook, appears to be required in order to create your list.
A countdown timer is currently active on the site; it runs out at midnight Thursday night (December 11th) in each time zone, after which the submission of, and voting on, "vital items" ends. On Friday, December 12th (the same day the movie opens in North America), the site will publish a list of the 1,212 "vital items" that got the most votes. It will be interesting to see what items land at the top of this list.
http://www.earthvitallist.com
Official Movie Website
http://thedaytheearthstoodstillmovie.com
Both websites are very intensive in the graphics department, and may take a while to load on slower computers.