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Death by Caffeine

death by caffeineThink coffee helps you stay productive through the day while you bang away at your keyboard? Ok, so it does. But how would you feel if you knew the exact amounts of coffee or caffeine it would take in order to stop your heart?

The online "death by caffeine" tool calculates your weight with your beverage of choice and serves up some stats on how many cups it will take in order for you to drop dead.

They have also put together a caffeine database chart that compares how many MG's of caffeine are in a drink. Ok, enough writing, its time for my 4th cup of Starbucks. 30.86 more to go.

Filed under: Internet, News

Downloaders Anonymous: We're addicted, it's official

internet addictAn article on NewScientistTech via Slashdot alerts us that many people these days are addicted to the Internet, and may be as clinically ill as alcoholics. Apparently Internet addicts try to hide their online activities and go online to get rid of a bad attitude (most likely trolling blogs), a habit that researchers say is dangerous and isn't healthy. First off, I thought most of us who are "addicted to the Internet" already knew we were, and I don't know if it is such a bad thing in many cases. Sure, there are times when it goes way too far, and mental help is required to fix the problem. Severe cases do exist where there is no end in sight. On the other hand, for all of us only mildly addicted, I think we are addicted because work requires it or because of our individual interests, and it can be a good thing. The lead author of the study, Elias Aboujaoude says "In a sense, they're using the Internet to self-medicate..." I don't consider this a bad thing, at least we are being medicated. It can be awfully helpful after a stressful work day to come home and surf, browse, read Download Squad and check on the latest news. I find writing code is therapeutic as well. I personally think that the reason we want to hide our Internet habits is because it is the very last place we can control a degree of privacy. With the whirlwind that is our busy life, it is comforting to know that you can have somewhere to go to drop everything and just be who you are, even it is on the inside of your head and stored behind a password. This article was an interesting read, so if you have some time to be Internet addicted today, check it out.

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With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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