Okay, so the post title may be a little over the top, but when you watch this video it may not seem so sensationalistic. These very dead, gutted & skinned dogfish fillets caught Youtube user TheSilvercarmel by surprise when they started flopping wildly while she was making dinner. I could go on discussing how weird and creepy this is, but really the video speaks for itself.

This apparently went on for approximately an hour, when TheSilvercarmel’s husband put the zombie fish down for good. (For those of you interested in more zombie dogfish action, there is a second clip available here for your viewing pleasure.)

On a semi-related note, apparently sprinkling salt on freshly skinned frog legs causes a similarly creepy reaction. I don’t know if the two phenomena are related, but just incase you still haven’t got your fill of twitching carrion, this is an excellent example of dancing frog legs.

Freaky Tea 1 [via Boing Boing]

Except in rare instances, when I make a trip to Walmart, I go in and grab what I need, pay and leave as quickly as possible (though my local Walmart’s refusal to open more than a small handful their registers usually thwarts that). There is just something about that store that I can’t stand. So for me, even the thought of spending anymore time than necessary in one makes my skin crawl. That said, I have always a morbid curiosity with what it would be like to stay in one since they changed over to being open 24-7. Thanks to Bayan Rabbani over at Zug.com, my curiosity has been satisfied. Bayan is not very clear on why he decided to spend 24 consecutive hours inside a Walmart Supercenter (though can there even be a rational explanation for wanting to do that), but he did and fortunately for the rest of the internet he chronicled his adventure on Twitter for posterity.

While his 24 hour experiment is full of interesting anecdotes ranging from fondling produce to waking up in the Mcdonalds with no memory of how he got there, the true high point (at least for me) is that it took the crack Walmart management team a full twenty two hours to realize that he was staying in the store. Though I guess they should at least be given credit for being good sports about the whole affair. After Bayan explained what he was doing they let him stay the last two hours to finish out the full 24.

The Walmart Experiment: 24 Hours Locked Inside a Super Walmart [via The Consumerist]

photo by r-z

While there is nothing abnormal about the IRS dispatching agents to collect delinquent taxes. (In fact, I would go as far to call it prudent considering the staggering national debt.) Last week in Sacramento, California the practice took a sharp turn into the absurd when two agents pulled into Harv’s Metro Car Wash to deliver a demand letter. The amount of back taxes owed to Uncle Sam by the business…. FOUR CENTS. Adding to the absurdity of the whole event, the demand letter also stated the business owes an additional $202.31 in additional fines and interest stemming from the original 4 cent debt.

As I said before, I can completely understand (and support) the collection of back taxes. However, you have to wonder what the fine folks at the IRS are smoking. Even considering the additional fines and interest (which seem a tad high for owing less than a nickel), $202.35 could have barely covered the cost of paying two agents to gas up a government vehicle and drive out to the business. Even the postage required to mail the notice could have paid the original debt many times over. I guess the moral of the story is to make sure your tax returns are absolutely perfect or else the IRS will spare no expense in getting what they are owed, no matter the amount.

IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents [via Boing Boing]