Extinct Blog of the Day

Today's (un)dead blog is focused on WoW (World or Warcraft). For those of you unfamiliar, WoW is the most popular of a class of on-line games that has ultimately ruined more lives than crack. I was reading something on Ta-Nehisi's blog about how a lot of companies intentionally screen out WoW players because they have haphazard sleeping paterns, tend to be less socially motivated, etc. I had a (relatively) normal friend of mine who WoWed an average of 50 hours a week over the course of a year, and subsequently sold his character (yes, you can do that) for an amount that literally turned out to be like 2 cents/hour.

Anyway...in this blog, whose author remains anonymous, you can find out these useful tips for beginning players, of which my favorite by far is number five which states:

5. Have an escape plan in mind when you get jumped

Words to live by.