A couple days ago Neils Clark over at Gamasutra asked the question: is there life after Warcraft? It wasn’t so much the question that was interesting, but the people he posed the question to. He asked five bone fide academics to give their qualified opinion on the phenomenon that is World of Warcraft. If you are into intelligent commentary on virtual social trends, or if you just have some time to burn, it’s worth a read.
Read: ‘The Academics Speak: Is There Life After World of Warcraft’
It’s the weekend, and you know what that means? Super short posts that have links to random meaningless content! Yay!
That’s right folks… The future is here! Remember Microsoft Surface? Well the fellows over at Sarcastic Gamer have put together a beautifully crafted parody of the Microsoft Surface promo video.
Check it out after the jump.
Being a young guy working as a plumbing and housewares salesman has it’s challenges. The biggest being that when I started working I had hardly any product knowledge whatsoever. I knew where I few things were in the store, but I couldn’t tell you much about them. After almost two years though, I have learned a thing or two about the stuff I sell, and now I’m passing it on to you. Since I do spend most of my time working with and selling plumbing products, that’s what I’ll be focusing on.
I’ll start with a scenario: You are remodeling your master bathroom, on a budget mind you. You walk into a home improvement store to buy a vanity (bathroom cabinet), counter top, and fixtures (faucet, tub/shower).
Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg and Pownce broke his iPhone *tear* That’s what you get for owning a $700 cell phone. Maybe he should try and sell it on eBay “Own a piece of internet history, bid on Kevin Rose’s broken iPhone”… oh wait, he’s not that famous.
Valleywag is running a caption contest, check it out.
My Macbook that is.
Yep, it finally came. After three days staring at the Fedex tracking page, hoping that it just might come a day early, I spent the day of it’s arrival staring hopefully down the lane waiting for that big van of Macbook goodness to drive up. I found out the hard way that Fedex drivers usually leave the rural neighborhoods last on their schedule. But arrive it did, in all it’s glossy white, shiny glory.
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