An Anonymous Coward writes:
You can now order zombies using your ride-sharing app. In New York and San Francisco, Lyft
has arranged for actors dressed as zombies [usatoday.com] to appear at your desired location this Halloween. Meanwhile, CareerBuilder has
analyzed data about America's 53 largest cities [careerbuilder.com] 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 [beyond-black-friday.com], peaking this year at 15,659 different titles.
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