Neatorama » World of Warcraft http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:43:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The World Outside of World of Warcraft is Now Superfluous http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-world-outside-of-world-of-warcraft-is-now-superfluous/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-world-outside-of-world-of-warcraft-is-now-superfluous/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 23:40:06 +0000 John Farrier http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/11/the-world-outside-of-world-of-warcraft-is-now-superfluous/

Gamers at MIT have built a self-contained life pod in which to play World of Warcraft. It features a built-in toilet, three days worth of food rations, fresh water, and a small cookstove. Thanks to these Prometheuses among us, it is no longer necessary to go outside or interact with people face-to-face. Truly, we live in an age of marvels.

Link via Geekologie

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This 1996 2006 WoW project by Aram Bartholl let people "play" as their World of Warcraft avatars in real life.

If your name is Leeroy Jenkins, you’d have to use big fonts ;)

The WoW project takes this mode of publicizing players’ names that’s typical of online 3D worlds and transfers it into the physical domain of everyday life. Participants of the WoW-workshop will be able to construct their own name out of cardboard and then parade around in public with it hovering above their head. What happens when a person’s customary anonymity in the public sphere is obliterated by the principles operative in virtual worlds online?

Link

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Geophysical Survey of the World of Warcraft
James Wallis gave an interesting talk at Interesting Vancouver 2008 (see what I did there?) about doing a geophysical survey of ... Azeroth, the virtual world in the insanely popular World of Warcraft.

It turns out that WoW is really, really small: Link

Human Slip & Slide
This is probably this middle-aged, balding Japanese man's lifelong dream: to ... um, slide over a row of oiled-up women in bikinis!

(It doesn't end there, folks, there's also an underwear stuffing contest!)

Where do I sign up? Link

Double Fail at the Motorcycle Race Track
What happens when you hold a motorcycle race after it rains? Here's a "double" fail at the track - I don't know which one hurts more!

Link

Shark Does a Spinning Jump Behind a Surfer
Check out this video clip of a spinner shark doing a spinning jump (shoryuken?) behind a surfer.

Link (about time mark 0:10)

History of the Internet
Here's a really neat animated infographic clip by Melih Bilgil about how the Interweb came to be.

Link

(If you like this, check out Neatorama's 10 Things You Should Know About the Internet and Wonderful World of Early Computing, Take a Stroll Down Computing Memory Lane)

For more the web's most interesting videos, check out: VideoSift.

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