LS: Cleaning up your Mac After Diablo III Beta

For those people who are looking to install Diablo III today to play tomorrow, if you were in the Beta it's suggested you do the following, particularly with regard to step 2:

1. Navigate Mac HD/Applications directory and move your Diablo III Beta to the Trash
2. If You are NOT in the Mists of Pandaria Beta:
Navigate Mac HD/Users/Shared directory and move the Battle.net folder to the Trash
    If you are in the Mists of Pandaria Beta
open "Mac HD/Users/Shared/battle.net/Setup/" and delete d3 beta setup folder there
3. Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Blizzard directory and remove the Diablo III folder (if it's there)
4. Navigate to ~/Library/Preferences directory and delete any files that begin with com.blizzard (if they're there)

That will clean the Beta files off your Mac and let you get on with a clean install.

LS: Should've Been Better At Math.

If you understand statistical analysis, you can likely identify winning scratch tickets just by looking at them and paying attention to the patterns.

LS: For Future Reference.

When I get a new computer later this year, I shall have to try this.

LS: Some Light Bedtime Reading...

SCP-Wiki. Enjoy ;)

LS: Someone's Monday Productivity = 0%

Transmog Fashion

LS: Steampunk

Clothing Store.

Link Storage: Bad Reasons to go to Law School

(3) My parents will be disappointed in me if I don’t do something respectable instead of pursue my dream of being a ____

Semi-employed permanent bankruptcy is in no way respectable, and there’s a very real risk that that’s where going to law school will leave you. Your parents don’t understand this because their knowledge of what being a lawyer entails is based on TV (see (5), supra). If you want to write the Great American Novel you’ll probably fail, but it won’t be the kind of failure that produces $200,000 in non-dischargeable debt while filling you with self-loathing.

This one is true for many professions. The rest are over here at Lawyers, Guns, and Money. I also like #2.

LS: Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin

NSFW: earphone time.

Tags: GameTrailers.com, Red Faction: Guerrilla, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

More over here.

LS: How to Prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse...

... from our handy friends at the CDC.

This is what you call smart marketing because, conveniently, a lot of things you'd do to prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse are the same things you'd do to prepare for most other natural disasters and Zombies are trending again lately.

TyL: Just a Reminder...

Common Sense very rarely survives contact with Good Health Policy once "Morality" intervenes

Link Storage: TED

Someday I'll explain the relevance of this. But, yes... TED.com: full of interesting conversations with interesting people, presenting a new one each week if I understand correctly, across a wide variety of subjects and fields. Agree with them or not, you're still going to come away having learned something...

LS: Charting for Fun and Profit

From The System, circa sub-blog I Love Charts.

LS: This made me giggle

2. While we appreciate Firefly as much as everyone else, Malcolm Reynolds has never been the leader of the Alliance.

While it can be hit or miss, The Daily Blink is frequently a pretty effective piece of satire.

Link Storage: Silly Records Edition

Apparently you can duct tape someone to a wall, unable to reach the ground, in ~57 seconds and expect them to stay there for at least one minute

Link Storage: RftP Footnote

It's articles like Johanna Schneller's "Hollywood Actresses and the art of Strategic Nudity" over at The Globe and Mail that help form the basis for the shots I take about how young actresses frequently break their "kit" out to score "adult" or "hot" points in Hollywood.

Link Storage: More indie music...

TheSixtyOne.com

That ought to keep you busy until I get around to updating my playlist....

LS: Because it Made me Laugh

"Listen: I’m not saying pandas aren’t cute. They’re very cute. They’re so cute that Newfoundlanders instinctively want to club them to death."

LS WoW: Oh, yeah...

4.0.1 is expected to hit tomorrow. This will bring about the "class and system's changes" part of Cataclysm. In simpler terms: all your toons and how you play them just got FUBAR'd but the new content won't show up until later.

It's Elitist Jerks reading time folks. Although, everyone's still sorting what works there by and large too. Soooo, um... good luck...

Update: Someone else has been kind enough to do a class/spec info roundup. Enjoy.

Death Knight
Elitist Jerks: Blood Tanking in 4.0.1
PwnWear: Blood Tanking Compendium
Elitist Jerks: Frost DPS | Cataclysm, You Found Me
Elitist Jerks: Unholy DPS | Cataclysm, All At Once
Consider It: Blog by the EJ main theorycrafter/poster
DK Sim: Gear, Spec, Glyphs, and Rotation simulations

Druid
Gray Matter: Moonkin Guide to Patch 4.0.1
Quieth's Quips: Moonkin Guide to 4.0
Relevart's Druid Reliquary: Moonkin Class Guide
Sunfyre's Nest: 4.0 Rotation and Glyphs
Syrco-Owl: Moonkin in 4.0.1

The Fluid Druid: Kitty Dps in 4.0.1
Feral Aggression: 4.0.1 Kitty Primer
Mew: Feral Druid DPS Analyzer
Think Tank: The 4.0.1 Feral Specs, Glyphs, Gear post
Allison Robert, WoW Insider: Bear Druids in Patch 4.0.1

Tree Bark Jacket: Tree Patch 4.0 Guide
Restokin: Resto Druid Healing Guide
Rank 4 Healing Touch: 4.0.1 Primer Resto Druid Basics and ICC 25 HM
RestoDude: Resto Druid Guide New

Hunter
MMO Champ Forums: 4.0.1 Hunters
The Brew Hall: Hunters Patch 4.0 Some Thing to Expect
Warcraft Hunters Union/WoW Insider: Scattered Shots: Prepare Your Hunter for Patch 4.0.1
Warcraft Hunter's Union: Beastmastery Hunter Patch 4.0.1 Talents Rotation and Glyphs
Warcraft Hunter's Union: Marksman Hunter Patch 4.0.1 Talents Rotation and Glyphs
Marks-365: Marksman Talents in 4.0
Warcraft Hunter's Union: Beastmastery Hunter Patch 4.0.1 Talents Rotation and Glyphs
Pets: Warcraft Hunters' Union

Mage
Mana Obscura: The Mage 4.0 Compendium
TotalBiscuit: Arcane Video Guide
TotalBiscuit: Fire Video Guide
Great Balls of Fire: Fire Raiding Builds Video
TotalBiscuit: Frost Video Guide
Great Balls of Fire: Frost Raiding Builds Video

Paladin
Kurn's Corner: What Holy Paladins Need to Know for 4.0.1
Blessing of KingsHoly Paladin Spec and Glyphs in 4.0.1
Righteous Defense: Everything You Need to Know about Prot and 4.0.1
Ret Pally: Ret Pally 4.0: Holy Shift

Priest
Dawn Moore, WoW Insider: Sp[iritual Guidance: Reforging, Gemming, and GCD Tactocs for 4.0.1
Dawn Moore, WoW Insider: Spiritual Guidance: Finishing Wrath Raids as a 4.0.1 Healing Priest
Tales of a Priest: 4.0 Survival Guide – Holy & Disc Specs, Glyphs, and More
Press H for Heals: Discipline 4.0.1 Guide
World of Matticus: Raiding Discipline for Priests in 4.0.1
World of Matticus: Smite Healing with Atonement Spec (balls of granite required)
Shadowpriest.com Forums: The 4.0.1 Checklist

Rogue
Elitist Jerks: 4.0.1 Rogue FAQ
PVE Rogues: 4.0.1 Mutilate Talents
PVE Rogues: 4.0.1 Combat Talents
Elitist Jerks: Combat Spreadsheet 4.0.1

Shaman
Myrddin: The Enhancement Shaman 4.0.1
Windfury, Enhancement: Are you ready for 4.0.1?
Totemspot: 4.0.1 The Elemental Guide
Sarah Nichol, WoW Insider: Totem Talk: Elemental Shaman Changes for Patch 4.0.1
Life in Group 5: The Resto Shaman's Guide to 4.0.1
Flow: Patch 4.0 Resto Shaman Build Speculation

Warlock
Optec: Cataclysm Warlock Changes Guide part 1
Optec: Cataclysm Warlock Changes Guide part 2
The Warlock's Den: 4.0.1 Cata Destro Rotation Spec
Undercity: 4.0.1 Destro Warlock Rotation
Forsaken Few Guild: Demonology in Cata

Warrior
Got Warcraft? The Cataclysm Warrior Guide
Naithin: Fun in Games: Prot Warrioring at 80 in 4.0

LS: An Accurate Summary...

Q. For a second there, I thought you were about to say Facebook was a good thing, the great democratic equalizer.

A. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world. If you’re asking me what I think about it personally—which doesn’t affect the movie—I think it’s an insincere form of socializing. Socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Q. So people rebrand themselves. It’s like digital cosmetic surgery.

From this Macleans interview with Aaron Sorkin about "The Social Network". His answer in the paragraph before this one is good too, showing how people do this kind of rebranding by tapping into well known cultural reference points, but also huge and I don't like taking quite that much of a quote. Go read it instead.

Link Storage: Random Curiosity

"Oh, and don’t forget, if you want to win a girl’s heart, the LEFT breast is the key! Just form a death grip on that thing and don’t let go. Squeeze harder for maximum damage!"

...

Yeah.

Things like this from todays Highschool of the Dead (mildly NSFW) recap are why I enjoy using RC (also, mildly NSFW depending on what you find on the homepage. Anime does have an entire "fanservice" sub-theme dedicated to panty, underwear shots, and general T&A that filters amongst the 1500 genres it's used to attack; especially those based on "harem" or "dating" manga that come before it and much of which would likely never get past BS&P in a million years over here 'cause they're set in High School.), to keep up on what's airing for Anime in Japan at the moment and try and find something worth watching. Unafraid to skewer the more ridiculous bits, you're always good for a laugh or two there even if you're not interested in watching the show in question.