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You can now order zombies using your ride-sharing app. In New York and San Francisco, Lyft has arranged for actors dressed as zombies to appear at your desired location this Halloween. Meanwhile, CareerBuilder has analyzed data about America's 53 largest cities to determine which one is most likely to survive a zombie attack, weighting 8 factors including the percentage of engineers in the population and the number of small arms manufacturers.
Exploiting the popular fascination with zombies has apparently become a new Halloween tradition for everyone from job-finding sites to self-published authors. One blog even notes the number of zombie-themed ebooks in Amazon's Kindle Store has doubled every year since 2011, peaking this year at 15,659 different titles.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Monday November 02 2015, @11:09PM
We appear to be moving into the 80s already. I thought it was just the fashion and toys (though I noticed the new Pound Puppies are actually clones of the original), but every store I've gone in over the past week was almost exclusively playing songs from the 80s, including U Can't Touch This and Ice Ice Baby.
(All of which is fine by me, given I'm definitely not a fan of most post-y2k music. Or as I half-jokingly commented to somebody recently, "I prefer male singers that sound old enough to have had their balls drop, and female singers that don't sound like they recently had a quart of silicon injected into their lips & butt...")