aol
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.
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government transparency
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.
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complaints
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...
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zombies
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:
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death
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:
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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.
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complaints
Can we say... zombies? We promise we're not going to turn this into the
AOL horror story blog, but we gotta post this.
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zombies
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.
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zombies
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.
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zombies
• 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.
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zombies
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.
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zombies
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.
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csr
Always quick to turn a global apocalypse into a profit margin, many call centers outsourced to Bombay are increasingly returning to the States and being staffed with zombie CSRs.
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Consumerist
TigerDirect bought CompUSA, and just announced a grand re-opening of 15 stores and the regular opening of one store.
debt collectors
