Here’s a little number from The Washington Post.  Gonna be lots of fighting for those Walmart greeter jobs…

Thousands of workers over the age of 100 applied to verify their employment eligibility through the U.S. government in recent years.

It’s not a trend toward an older workforce, but a sign of identity fraud, according to federal auditors.

A recent watchdog review found that at least 6.5 million active Social Security numbers belong to people who are at least 112 years old and likely deceased.  Read more here.

Thanks to Cornell University researchers, we can now simulate the spread of a zombie disease outbreak.  Click here for the entire article from HuffPost Weird News.

And thanks to their new zombie apocalypse simulator, we can confirm what we already knew: Stay out of cities if you don’t want to get infected.

The researchers will present their study, “The Statistical Mechanics of Zombies,” later this week, and reportedly prove that the best place to escape should zombies take over is the northern Rockies.

Their simulation is awesome, and you can try it by clicking here.

Here’s a lovely little column in Huff listing 14 ways in which having a dog trumps having a male...I love number 2, That Dogs Find Things All By Themselves (oh, like you haven’t thought of this already?)

1. Despite the occasional bathroom accidents, dogs are way neater than men.

Dogs do not leave empty salsa containers, beer bottles, or boxer shorts lying around the house, nor do they leave dirty coffee mugs or food containers in the car. In fact, if you give your dog food in a to-go container, he will not only eat all the food, he will actually eat the container too.

From a Crain’s Chicago Business article.

Coming to a Whole Foods near you: in-store bars and restaurants

As Chicago’s upscale grocery scene gets more crowded and more consumers turn to grocery delivery services, it’s no longer enough to stock the shelves and hope customers show up.

Amid a six-store expansion in the Chicago market, Whole Foods is adding in-store dining options and bars to each, hoping to give adult customers more reasons to visit.

“Simply put, we’re looking for ways to make the places more appealing,” says Michael Bashaw, president of Whole Foods’ Midwest region. “If bricks-and-mortar (grocers) are going to survive, they must offer a compelling experience to customers.”

Read the entire article here.

Betcha you can’t not shed a tear…

Heard this on the news on Tuesday, after the instructor died from a gunshot wound to the head.  I’d had some oddball vacations before, but they never included videotaping FirstBorn or PITA learning how to use Uzi submachine guns.  Here’s the entire article.

The death of a shooting instructor at an Arizona gun range when a 9-year-old girl lost control of a powerful automatic weapon has raised the issue of age limits at such operations.

The girl, on vacation with her parents at the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills, Ariz., accidentally shot and killed the instructor, 39-year-old Charles Vacca, while firing an Uzi submachine gun Monday, officials said. The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office said the gun’s recoil sent the weapon over the girl’s head, its bullets striking Mr. Vacca, who stood next to her.