Portal Fan Film

Pretty amazing short film.
http://kotaku.com/5833700/watch-this-gorgeous-portal-fan-film-right-now

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Rift: Porticulum Locations

A good map of all the proticulum (i.e., portal) locations.  It is color coded as to whether each is neutral, Defiant or Guardian portal.
http://rift.incgamers.com/guides/Porticulum_map

A map of all the porticulum locations for Defiant players.
http://www.lotd.org/showthread.php?t=31203

A list of all porticulums.
http://telarapedia.com/wiki/Porticulum

Another
http://rift.zam.com/wiki/Transportation_%28Rift%29

I found a list of porticulum masters here.
http://rift.ign.com/wiki/Porticulum_Master

There is an interactive map with porticulums listed you can download here but I can't say how safe this is.
http://drakkashi.com/rift/map.html

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How to Navigate without Portals

Strategies to pass the time while traveling without portals
http://www.pinkpigtailinn.com/2010/11/strategies-of-fun-for-frequent-flyer.html

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Nameplates and Cooldown Monitors

No Stock UI has found two new addons to help raiders.  One is a nameplate addon for PvP called Docs Nameplates.
http://www.nostockui.com/2010/11/docs-nameplates/

The other is called Flump.  It keeps track of when any player activates a raid cooldown, a portal or drops a feast, and also when the activated ability wears off.
http://www.nostockui.com/2010/11/what-can-flump-do-for-you/

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Cataclysm Messes with Portals

Apparently Cataclysm is removing the portals in Dalaran and Shattrath and may be setting up new ones various places.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/09/26/cataclysm-beta-removes-portals-from-dalaran-and-shattrath/

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"Welcome to Android Hell"

Do you play WOW?  Have you played Portal?  Then you'll enjoy this monochromatic machinima. Many thanks to Big Bear Butt for pointing this out in his article about how Portal is free to download via Steam for a limited time if you have a Steam account.  This is part of the celebration as Valve launches a Mac client for their game download services.
http://www.baronsoosdon.com/content/view/28/32/

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Mischievious Mages and Portal Roulette

Cold Comfort mentioned portal roulette and how his guild mages stack portals.
http://blog.cold-comfort.org/portal-roulette-mischief/

He links to Spicy Tuna's explanation of how to play portal roulette as a single mage.  Note that this is bad behavior at worse and mischief at best and other examples of mage misbehavior are listed here.
http://spicytunas.com/2009/04/how-to-be-an-asshat-mage/

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