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!) [...]
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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.
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 [...]