oh hay
A piece of information has been kicking around in my head for the past couple of years and my attempts at verifying if it's a weird bit of cryptomnesia or false memory.
There was an article at CNN's website about a fungus that infects crabs and turns them into zombies that continue to scuttle around and feed on things for the sake of the fungus. I'm pretty certain it was CNN not some crank website.

oh never mind, i look again and this time i DONT get links about half-life
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=53
lockdown plox

Thats crazy.

First thing I thought about was Half-Life

Funny, first thing I thought was it was about zombies who don't take certain precautions re toilets, etc.

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Mmmm, zombie crab...

Instead of "BRAIIINS", this crab says "EEEEGGS!"

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Note to self, don't tell the wife. She's got a phobia about zombies. Just me walking slow in the dark is enough to wig her out bad. It's fun to watch her play Zelda when she has to deal with the ... whatever the Zelda zombies are called.

She'll never go to the beach again if she reads about this.

Just imagine how different the Deadilest Catch would be.

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This phenomenon has been known to happen in humans, too. Just look at the little old lady with 36 cats that she calls her "babies"... (There's one in every neighborhood.)

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
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"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I thought this thread was about those Japanese "Ghost Crabs" with the samarai faces on their shells.
"Ewww! Creepy thing! Throw it back!"
Ah, evolution.

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Is now a good time to mention the parasite that eats a fish's tongue and replaces it with its own body so there is a tongue creature with eyes in the fish's mouth eating the fish's food as the fish eats?

On a "somewhat" related note, I do a "crab dance" to entertain the wife, but the less spoken about that the better.

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Too late, you spoke it.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I, for one, welcome our new Zombie masters.

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Toxoplasmosis isn't THAT bad. I find it very comforting that my cat loves me so much that she wants to ensure that we love each other for a very, very long time. Pardon me, I have to feed her.

Actually, its not a fungus, its a parasitic barnicle, Sacculina granifera.

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which are also crabs, oddly enough.

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In your rush to call everyone "entrenched" or closed-minded or "limited" you fail to note that the "limit" here has a very natural boundary: that point at which the evidence stops. - JayUtah

Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales

Oh, no! The zombies are back!

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

(singing) And you're gonna be in trouble...

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort