Cataclysm's Region-Wide Battlegrounds (Plus Wargames)

In other words, you'll get to meet every idiot in North America if that's the region you play in.
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/11/cataclysm-to-bring-region-wide-battlegrounds/

UPDATE:  Something called "war games mode" will be added to Battlegrounds.  It seems to be a way to invite groups to challenge other groups to battle in a specific Battleground.
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/12/war-games-mode-coming-to-cataclysm-battlegrounds/

UPDATE #2:  Gordon is starting to wonder why Blizzard and other game developers have a new emphasis on PvP recently.
http://blog.weflyspitfires.com/2010/06/11/pushing-pvp/

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Words Fail Me

Murloc Beer Stein

http://www.wow.com/2010/06/10/murloc-stein-available-for-pre-order/

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Tanking 101 (Instructor: ReversionLFM)

The Looking For More blog has written a nice Tanking 101 series.  I'll post all the links here with updates as more is written.  You can see them all if you to to the LFM site, then click on "Tanking 101" in the Series section in the right hand column.

Multi-pull
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/tanking-101the-multi-pull-part-1/

Pull by pull
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/tanking-101-nexus-of-insanity-pull-by-pull/

Raid tanking introduction
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/tanking-101-intro-to-raid-tanking/

Controlling the battlespace
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/tanking-101-controlling-the-battlespace/

Chain pulls
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/tanking-101-chain-pulls/

The decision loop
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/tanking-101-confidence-and-the-decision-loop/

Various pulling tricks
http://looking4more.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/tanking-101-pull-school-hit-and-run/

Many thanks to WOW Insider for pointing me towards this series

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