In Other Non-Parrot News

Warcraft has their realm status page up and running. I’ll see how this works. All the MMOGs I’ve played, rarely did the status page truly indicate if the server was playable, as in … I can log in, retrieve my character and go whack some moles. Hey, it could happen, but I had the hope nerfed out of me long ago.

MSN Spaces: Naming Filter

As you might guess, I love devilish pranks with naming filters. BoingBoing completed an investigation of MSN Spaces’ naming filters, MSN’s new blogging service, with some hilarious results. One of my fondest EQ memories is when duel results would be broadcast in the public channels. Was it just zonewide or serverwide? My memory fogs on that point. My all-time favorites: “Thelag has defeated Yourconnection in a duel to the death!” and “Nerfs has defeated Yourfun in a duel to the death!”