About the Argent Tournament

Banana Shoulders has written a Tourists' Guide to the Argent Tournament which you can enter once you have a Level 77 character.  The last link updates the earlier link information to be current as of Patch 3.2 post-Call of the Crusade.
http://www.bananashoulders.com/2009/03/13/the-argent-tournament-tourist-guide-part-i/

http://www.bananashoulders.com/2009/03/16/the-argent-tournament-tourist-guide-part-ii/

http://www.bananashoulders.com/2009/04/20/the-argent-tournament-tourist-guide-part-iii/

http://www.bananashoulders.com/2009/08/04/the-argent-tournament-in-patch-3-2/

By the way, WOW Head has updated their guide to the Argent Tournament to be compatible with Patch 3.2 (date August 2009).
http://www.wowhead.com/?blog=104591
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DPS Warrior Leveling Guide (Arms) Post-Call of the Crusade

Big Hit Box is leveling his arms warrior using Pixelated Executioner's multi-part guide and thinks it is great.  Here are the links posted so far:
Levels 1-9
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/06/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades-1.html

Levels 10-19
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/07/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades.html

Levels 20-29
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/07/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades_09.html

Levels 30-39
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/07/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades_16.html

Levels 40-49
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/07/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades_23.html

Levels 50-59
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/08/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades.html

Levels 60-69
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/08/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades_28.html

Levels 70-79
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/10/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grades.html

Level 80
http://pixelatedexecutioner.blogspot.com/2009/10/arms-warrior-elementary-school-grade-80.html

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Should Authenticators Be Mandatory for Battle.net Accounts?

WOW Insider thinks so.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/12/breakfast-topic-why-blizzard-should-make-authenticators-mandato/

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Player Created Mini-Documentary on BlizzCon

Video and commentary here along with a link to a LA Times news story also about BlizzCon.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/11/fan-created-documentary-about-blizzcon-an-event-for-fans/

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Addons Creator Interview at BlizzCon

WOW Insider has posted a long interview with Cameron Knight, an addon writer who is also Blizzard's addon community liaison done at a sci fi fan convention last weekend.  It is a very interesting article whether you want to know Knight's take on Blizzard's using ideas from the addon community, how to get started writing your own addons, what addons Knight recommends, or just interested in how hard it is to track bugs in Lua, the addon software language.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/11/wow-add-ons-panel-at-dragon-con-2009/

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WOW Insider Challenges Blizzard to Date Patches

If you've noticed the box on the right where I post the expected upcoming patch changes and when they are expected, you may cheer on WOW Insider who challenges Blizzard to give actual dates for when they expect things to come out.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/10/a-challenge-to-blizzards-secretive-philosophy/

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Seen on the Chat Line

"Anyone know how to block seeing an entire guild?"

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Dual Welding for Frost Death Knights (Solo)

Darth Solo finds his frost death knight spec of 0/53/18 works wonders on his solo runs.  He doesn't raid, but the Elitist Jerks' build he took his from works well for him.  He describes it in detail here.
http://wowalone.blogspot.com/2009/09/dual-wield-frost-death-knight.html

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Guildwatch (Illustrated)

Guildwatch has arrived.  Hurrah!  More drama, more angst, more fun!  And photos--Man, do we have photos today! [Not to mention a free exclamation point with each sentence.]  Click on this picture to get a good look.

Dark Haven of Baelgun launched a protest about the instance problem that is supposed to be fixed after they got booted out of Ulduar.  Photo above of the dancing cows from Mike Schramm, the genius who amuses us each Wedneday (or sometimes Thursdays) with the Guildwatch column.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/09/guildwatch-it-was-my-friend/

A guild mistress and her boyfriend disbanded their guild, saying their studies needed more attention.  Strangely, they took the guild bank with them when they vanished and set up a new guild called Reflera on the Terrokar realm.  Beware!  Education is bad for the health of your guildbank!

This link takes you to a troll posting by someone who applied to a guild and was rejected. The trash talking that resulted isn't even in their own words, they cut and pasted sentences from elsewhere.  Be original in your insults, folks.
http://www.outofcombatguild.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2177

Sadly, the above link is unavailable right now (someone is embarassed, huh?) so I have one of my own for you.  This links to three separate guild applications from the same person. Wonder if they ever got in a guild?  Somehow I think not, assuming that the guilds s/he applied to actually read the application.
http://www.the-core-guild.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6164

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Realms Up or Down? Your iPhone Knows

There's an iPhone app that will tell you which realms are up or down and which will also notify you when the realms you specify go up or down.  It's $1.99.  Details here.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/09/realm-status-iphone-app-sends-push-notifications-for-the-servers/

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