- Tony 'Clickable Culture' Walsh has an interesting new post about World Of Warcraft, discussing 'the art of "corpse graffiti"', apparently a subject of discussion on WoW forums recently.

Walsh notes: "In my first few months of play, I regularly spotted a corpse named Jeff Buckley floating face-down in a pool of water in the dwarven city of Ironforge (Buckley was a real-life recording artist who drowned in 1997). Others have found lighter fare, such as "a pile of gnomes with names like 'Oompalumpa' outside Orgrimmar. At the top was a dead [Night Elf] named Willywonka.""

He also explains the gameplay mechanism that makes it possible: "Corpse graffiti, a form of emergence, is created by building a character with a clever name, i.e. "Mailbox" and dropping dead in a contextually-appropriate location, i.e. a mailbox in a high-traffic area. As long as the player refuses to resurrect the character (a feature in the game), the named corpse remains for all to see." An excellent/informative write-up!