The May 2006 winner of the World of Warcraft comic contest is Holymcsmite, aka Matt Collins, Tauren cheeseburger fan. (Contest runs all year, winners receive an iPod nano plus some Blizzard stuff) If you’re in a raiding guild, this one, an honorable mention for May, should appeal to you … in a painful, ya-don’t-I-know-it kind of way.
Hey, apparently not everyone in Second Life is a circus-type freak. Guess I was wrong about that. New World Notes, a Second Life events and player profile site, detailed the efforts of player Laukosargas Svarog in creating a self-sustaining virtual ecosystem, Svarga, an island populated with bees, birds and bats. I say, throw some apes into the mix and let’s settle this once and for all: creationism or evolution.
The analysis isn’t statistically sound, but interesting nonetheless … American universities with the most World of Warcraft players (based on visits to MapWoW). Number One … University of Washington. (That’s a feather in your cap, Huskies.) Also, I see that my alma mater is in the top ten — makes those annual alumni extortion checks so worth it.