the latest patch of World of Warcraft introduced “RealID”: a feature that enables communication across servers (and potentially across games) within battle.net. it’s a nifty addition for sure since i do have a few real life friends that still play on different servers. WoW is at times a fancy chat (curse those raid down times!) [...]
Category Archive for 'internet'
rick rolling
Posted in internet on Apr 12th, 2008
the Donots proclaim in “Whatever happened to the 80s” that “Thank God, Rick Astley gave us up” – however, that is far from the truth. Rick Astley is never gonna give us up, it seems. in fact, he is the center of a new internet viral video phenomenon: “An estimated 13 million internet users have [...]
granted, the issue of “internet addiction” is not new but it is gaining significance. this article in the recent edition of “The American Journal of Psychiatry” calls for the inclusion of “internet addiction” as a disorder in the DSM-V. one subtype of “internet addiction according to this editorial is ”excessive gaming”. the author lists statictics and cases from the asian region where the issue seems [...]
if IKEA was a video game…
Posted in internet on Nov 12th, 2007
i found this hilarious piece on the boingboing rss feed today. apparently it’s from 2004 but considering my frequent trips to IKEA this year it is still valid. IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you will [...]
what it feels like…
Posted in internet on Aug 23rd, 2007
“what it feels like…” is a series by the esquire magazine that is occationally featured on the msn homepage. it is about people who experienced something extraordinary or extreme and they are describing for example what it feels like to get struck by lightning, to parachute from space or to perform a heart transplant.
moving webhosts
Posted in internet on Aug 9th, 2007
i am in the middle of moving webhosts. i have been hosting with the same company for over seven years now and although they have increased disk and trafic quotas over the time, the monthly fee stayed the same. however, that was not the main reason i decided to say goodbye to them, it was [...]
not surprisingly i have stumbled across an article that deals with the question “Why are people leaving WoW?” well, i can only speak for myself here and what i experienced in my “WoW life” in over two years; for me the expansion ruined the game. true, it added some content and new areas to explore, [...]
97 seconds of “fame”
Posted in internet on Jun 10th, 2007
while i was reading my feeds yesterday, i stumbled upon a link on metafilter named “Navy Numa Numa“. i vagely remembered from my World of Warcraft time that one of my fellow guildmates used to talk about “Numa Numa” all the time. i habe never bothered to actually check it out or even given any [...]
wired to the zeitgeist
Posted in internet on May 7th, 2007
social bookmark websites like digg or reddit are a great source to find out what makes the internet “buzz” at a given moment. its not really new and i have been reading other feeds like neowin for quite a few years now, but that sidebar widget for displaying feeds on your vista desktop took it [...]
google weirdness
Posted in internet on May 2nd, 2007
not sure when “Harald Schmidt” starts today and being lazy with setting booksmark, i headed over to google to check the tv schedule for today. vaguely remembering that the “ARD” actually goes by “das Erste (deutsche Fernsehen)” i entered “das erste” at google and got as expected “www.DasErste.de” as the very first hit. now here’s [...]