Culture Buzz Warning: This image will give you feelings. Unless you are some jaded monster. You aren't a monster, are you?
Celebrity Buzz In this viral advertising effort for Online Schools, the orig' Hulk informs us all that World of Warcraft is really a World of Makeouts. Do you buy his advice? (via geeksaresexy.net)
Culture Buzz From the absurdly titled BBC show “World Series of Dating,” an awkward moment is salvaged by the discovery of a common interest in being great big nerds. I see a bright future for these two. (via kotaku.com)
http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2012/01/30/lana-del-rey-world-o...
Boys having interests outside herself is a big no, no. Or at least that’s what I took away from this interview.
http://www.good.is/post/people-are-awesome-meet-the-world...
People are awesome. Ben Shaw lost both his eyes to a roadside bomb while on duty in Iraq, but with a little help from a friend it won’t stop him from his hobby.
And here I thought she couldn't get more adorable than she already was.
And suddenly there was a noise. As if all of Barrens Chat cried out in ecstasy in unison.
Tech Buzz Well, it was nice to have my life back for little while. Once more into the breach, my friends!
Music Buzz Need more DoTs! Stop attacking the spawns, guys. Seriously.
Culture Buzz World of Warcraft fan art depicting various stories and legends within the the World of Warcraft setting, in the form of stained glass art. Created by artist Jian Guo. (via ca.kotaku.com)
Dick Figures' Red and Blue get their quest on. “A tweedle COCK and tweedle BALLS, holy sparkles, bubble gum.”
There's more than one way to play the game. A student-run choir puts together a live performance of music from the video game, “World of Warcraft” for full orchestra and choir.
http://sororitygirlplayswow.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/love...
Advice on how to get a non-gamer girl to play World of Warcraft without freaking her out.
How did it take cats all the way up until now to get around to playing World Of Warcraft? Maybe they were just perfecting their technique. This guy's clearly got it down.
And he'll happily kill to get it. No one gets between a man and his Cataclysm expansion.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18907_the-5-hardest-most-p...
Isn't the entire game hard and pointless?
Tech Buzz Azeroth has two new denizens: Falsted Wildhammer and his red-garbed friend, the Wildhammer Fact Checker. Blizzard added them into the new World of Warcraft expansion after a certain red shirted guy noted Falsted's absence.
Needs to be autotuned. [Ed. note: The guy who became famous after asking this awesome question at a World of Warcraft conference fills us in on some of the details. Yes, he does have (mild) Asperger's syndrome, and yes, he is kind of an awesome dude. Well played, Red Shirt Guy. The Internet loves you.]
Blizzard's senior vice president of creative development, Chris Metzen, delivers a rousing dissertation to a packed audience at BlizzCon about what it means to be a geek. Beta is the new alpha.
Culture Buzz Nerds are the best. Looking through these galleries just confirms what I've always known - these are my people.
You nerds probably all know the answer to this question. Like, you probably have been wondering the same thing yourself, but you were too afraid to ask a panel of World of Warcraft game designers. Red Shirt Guy just showed you all up.
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/30/the-maelstrom-is-probably-e...
A week or so ago, someone on the Cataclysm beta forums complained that the Maelstrom's appearance in the upcoming expansion just wasn't epic enough. It's a pretty silly thing to say. Re: The M
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=259...
Trolls can breath easy…for now.
Real ID reveals what had previously been a refuge for some A-listers. Even in a virtual world, celebrities are just like us.
In this situation, I fail to find any problems with Blizzard's Real ID plans.