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Unemployment Visualized As A Zombie Outbreak
At some point, we're going to have to stop referring to every red-hued outbreak map as being zombie-like, but this is not that point. It's nearly Halloween, the #2 movie in the nation is Zombieland, and yesterday the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis warned that unemployment may exceed 10% before the end of the year. This is the appropriate way to view unemployment today. More » -
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Christmas Creep Cartoon From Hallmark (Yes, Hallmark)
Hallmark's Shoebox Greetings has a blog. This week, the blog published a delightful cartoon on the subject of Christmas creep. More » -
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Zombie AOL Account Plague Spreads To Wall Street Journal Columnist
Our reader Jennifer isn't the only former Time Warner employee whose AOL account has risen from the dead, prompting collection notices and confusion. Wall Street Journal investing columnist Jason Zweig, a former Time Warner employee, found himself in precisely the same situation, and wrote about his epic customer service adventure. More » -
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Zombie AOL Account Crawls Out Of The Grave Nine Years Later
Jennifer, like many people, one subscribed to AOL. She paid for the service originally, then received a free account while employed with Time Warner. Then she joined the 21st century and didn't use AOL at all, but her free account remained in the system. Until AOL started billing her. Nine years later. More » -
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Boston Police Department: We Will Let You Know When The Zombies Come
The first surprising part of this story is that the Boston Police Department has a Twitter feed. They use it to post breaking police-type information that's useful to the public, such as roads closed due to car accidents, crime data, big arrests, etc. Sometimes they also reply to reader questions. And that is how TruTV learned that the Boston police will not hide the zombie invasion from the public. More » -
TigerDirect bought CompUSA, and just announced a grand re-opening of 15 stores and the regular opening of one store.
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Verizon Unleashes Zombie Debt Collector Scourge On Innocent Consumer
Reader Kevin has a problem with Verizon and the zombie debt collectors they've unleashed on the account Verizon said was paid off and closed... More » -
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Attack Of The Zombie Brands!
If you think you are having flashbacks every now and then, you are right. So are manufacturers, who grab onto every advantage—even a dubious one—to make their products stand out in a crowded marketplace. Thus, Ford pulls the 500 badge and revives Taurus. Coca-Cola revives Tab as Tab Energy, and Life magazine is demoted to a newspaper insert. From Slate's Daniel Gross: More » -
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Corpse On A Plane: Dead Woman Moved To First Class
Every wonder what happens to the 10 people a year who die mid-flight? Well, if you're flying British Airways you get the final upgrade. Corpses fly first class. From Times Online: More » -
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Another Corpse Billed by AOL
Now that AOL's dissolved their call centers and gone free, we certainly hope that all billing issues customers have been wrestling with have been resolved. In particular, their habit of continuing to bill the dead. More » -
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AOL Wants to Sell "Internet" to the Dead
Can we say... zombies? We promise we're not going to turn this into the AOL horror story blog, but we gotta post this. More » -
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UPDATE: Acquiesce to the Zombie Debt Collectors
Relevant to our earlier post about Chris getting call after call from his debt collectors and wanting to stop their zombie madness, and T-Mobile and Catherine Zeta Jones' inability to do anything about it, reader Erik found the Federal "Fair Debt Collection Practices Act" from Title 15 of the United States Code. More » -
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Glocker Z-Day Round-Up
On March 28th, 2006, a strange Venusian satellite streaked an eerie fluorescent parabola across the sky, irradiating the world's cemetaries, funeral parlors and abattoirs with an extraterrestrial radiation. Four days later, the dead walked, slavering for human flesh and tasty brains. And we were here covering it. More » -
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Announcement: The Flesh Consumerist
A lot of our habits have changed since the slavering undead crawled their way out of the loam three days ago. Our loved ones have transformed into insatiable ghouls insanely screaming for human flesh. The Zombie President of the United States presides in Washington, and Michael Moore is silent, his mouth full of chunks of cottage-cheese fat clawed out of his own sloppy abdomen. As Ben might have said before his girlfriend tore off his face, inserted her fingers through his eye sockets and cracked his skull in half like the top of a stuck ice cooler, it's positively gaytarded. More » -
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Morning Deals Round-Up
• Today's Woot!, the Mag KleerDrain Instant Drain Opener. At 20 bucks, this is an affordable tool to unclog your drains of the fetid slurry that congeals after feeding the disembodied limbs of your loved ones down the garbage disposal. More » -
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Wal-Mart Big Boxes Serve As Zombie-Invulnerable Forts
The same communities that once passed zoning regulations and fought tooth and nail against the threat of a Big Box being deposited in their neighborhood a now turning to Wal-Mart as their last refuge from the gruesome bloodbaths being unleashed in their own backyards. More » -
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McDonald's Can't Keep Up With Undead Demand
It appears that McDonald's still has a lot to learn about appeasing customers — in an ironic turn of events, McDonald's is now under heavy criticism for not including enough human viscera in their Happy Meals. More »
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