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Let's Play "What's Your Favorite Software"

Doing a clean Windows 8.1 build tomorrow. I like trying new stuff.

What software you consider indispensable? What are you favorite utilities and what nots?

GlaDOS explains nuclear fusion in a NASA video:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/02/glados-nasa-video/

It's a fine time to buy. What's your budget?

http://www.logicalincrements.com/

To make up for that shitty video I just posted please watch this very NWS Carpenter Brut tribute to Takashi Ishii. If you like dystopian music from the near future set to awesome Japanese film clips featuring naked chicks and guns and stuff this is for you.

http://vimeo.com/74333931

Amateur web developers, re: http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=31357767#item_31357767

So I started to blog about my experiences in pushing myself down the long road towards employable proficiency in web development. There might be some stuff here you can relate to or that you may find interesting/informative: http://iblog.everyotherweekorso.com/2014/02/10/web-development-reflex-game-jquery-javascript/

Street Fighter 2 - An Oral History

http://www.polygon.com/a/street-fighter-2-oral-history

When Capcom moved its studios to a new building, [Yasuda] went to every floor and laid down to see how it felt to sleep there. Every floor.
...
At one point, [Yasuda] wanted to live a healthy life, so he said, "OK I'm going to drink milk." So he'd always buy these little packs of milk. He'd be working, and then he'd reach down to his little milk packs and drink them. Around his desk, he had like 100 of these packs. So he'd grab one, shake it, and whenever he'd find one with milk in it, he'd drink it and put it back, without even looking at it. And he never knew what the expiration dates were. So he started drinking milk to be healthy, but he was always complaining he had diarrhea.

Fucking lol. I don't like fighting games much, but this is a great read.

REJOICE,
for I have found the full video
http://www.pornhub.com/view_video.php?viewkey=1466842919

Might totally be NWS

yeah, Margot and I have been on keto. Here are the studies that convinced me. Some of them were conducted at the hospital where I used to work. And I haven't even linked all of them.

On eggs/cholesterol:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19369056
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8539

Fat is not the cause of coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease or strokes:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2010/01/13/ajcn.2009.27725.abstract

The idea that these things is dangerous is a myth, the advisory committee findings is not based on nor consistent with the scientific literature on the subject:
http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(11)00314-5/fulltext

Saturated fat good for HDL (good cholesterol)
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/67/5/828.short
http://www.internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S0167-5273(99)00107-2/abstract

Why a high protein diet is good for you (Note: high protein is not part of keto)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21102327
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1359/jbmr.2000.15.12.2504/full
http://www.jissn.com/content/1/1/45
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/25
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=201882
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/4/734.short

Eating more meals does not increase your metabolism
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9155494
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943985

Low carb diets favorable for weight management:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633336/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC538279/
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=205916

Low carb reduces body fat
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17971178
http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/88/4/1617.long

Low carb lowers blood pressure
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16409560

Low carb improves cholesterol
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12761365
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19439458

Low carb lowers triglycerides
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/3/567.long
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892194/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19082851

High fat diets do not make you fat
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01021.x/abstract
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2008.00518.x/abstract
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/2/276.full

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY SHACK[LOL]

Just for fun, here's a table showing that this thing is *still* getting bigger every year:

YEAR       LOL         ALL   

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2007 |    87,272  |    n/a   

2008 |   173,173  |   182,104

2009 |   153,539  |   178,536

2010 |   162,412  |   216,850

2011 |   158,869  |   235,565

2012 |   236,047  |   365,840

2013 |   332,429  |   523,610 

=============================

       1,303,741  | 1,702,505

Crazy.

In celebration, I spent a little time this morning and added a feature that kind of fixes an annoyance pointed out by Broken Canoe -- http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=31380657#item_31380657 -- posts now display all of their tags on the lol page so you can get a better picture of what you're looking at when browsing posts on the lol page.

I was brand new to card games and found this worked out really well for a super noob. I am now starting to average 4-6 wins on Arena which makes the game even better because I am almost a quest of two away from the next arena.

#1) beat every tutorial game on normal and expert, get a bunch of gold
#2) get every class rank 10 playing unranked, even though it is a bit of a struggle, work on whatever quests you have that day.
#3) make these decks (all basic cards) http://i.imgur.com/OmfQKEG.png
#4) it is unreal how easy unranked is with these decks, just hop on and do your quests everyday and soon you will have 800 gold to spend however you please.
#5) go 0-3 and 1-3 in a bunch of Arenas until you get the hang and/or run out of gold, repeat step #4 until you start to win.