I wouldn't mind taking that up. Might get me more into SL. As it is I'm mostly a consumer and just dabble in it as I find the building and scripting to be a bit unintuitive (and this coming from a programmer).

Definitely a Villian. Probably a technology based one with summoned minions on top of various techie powers (lightning jolts, enhanced strength, etc etc)

Actually Don, you can play for free, from anywhere (except Korea, Malaysia, and the Phillipines I believe) on the North American servers. They have a pay-to-play addon that uses the same servers, but gives you access to special buffs like greater xp gain and special skills and costumes. I actually have played it, and it isn't bad, but I couldn't afford another time sink in addition to my other 3 MMOs, my FPSs and other gaming addictions.

Some of the costumes were pretty risque and skin-tight to begin with, so I imagine that basically switching the costume files with alpha-invised versions and making sure the base skin textures were up to snuff wouldn't be too hard to local-side hack or to do as a mischievious stunt if you were an admin/gm.

I wouldn't mind another one of these to give to my wife.

I'm still wearing my TripRunner Dungarees
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=2281
around level 35 and have worn them all the way into Level 53. Lack of good upgrades for AGI and lack of funds to pay 150+ gold for upcoming devilsaur leggings and such will not do much to change that soon.

There are many classes that can be used as effective runners. Speed is often the main choice in a flag runner though. This limits things down to a few choices. Rogues (with sprint, speed pots, their high dodge, and hopefully some free action pots), druids (cat/travel form with dash, plus self-healing and bear-tank in sticky situations like flag guarding), shaman (self-healing, totems, ghost-wolf form), and Mages (Blink is an utter hell for those who would snare them and a good instant distance boost).

Other classes can do well also, priests and pallies can bubble and heal themselves till the shammies come by and purge the living snot out of them. Warriors have their inborn hardiness and warshout. Gnome racial abilities are a complete bane to people who would hinder their movement. If sneaky, a hunter can use their cheetah aspect as well.

While I have no doubt Warlocks could do well if planned and supported, they have less built in abilities to help with flag running. I personally have an especial hatred of twinked gnome mages who run flags. PvP trinket, gnome racial, movement speed enchants, speed, invisibility and free action pots, engineering gadgets and bombs, along with blink make it _VERY_ difficult to pin these little buggers down to rip their legs off. I would rather deal with a druid runner any day. At least then I know they have a smaller bag of tricks to get out of dodge.

To save the a bit of time from reading the trash-talking that is the WoW forums: The new scaling don't scale very well. They do stand as an improvement over the existing skills, especially for garrote and rupture. However, rather than scaling with standard damage output (as say a mage's spells do, or backstab) they now scale purely based on Attack Power.
Many people are very thankful for this change, as it will come into being more help once we get the expansion out and can move beyond level 60. However the improvements mean that you must have high AP. If you have under 600 ap, your skills will suffer versus the damage they do now. Also the increased scale on skills from 600 ap to 1500ap is very minimal. For 2.5x the AP you get a measly 120-ish dmg increase on a (without talent improvement) 5-point eviscerate. They forumlated that it is roughly .15*(AP above 600) damage that is added. If below 600, start subtracting by that formula (but this isn't fully confirmed)

Short in simple, this is a definite improvement for most end-gamers. However many in the community consider it to be such a weak improvement that it amounts to little more than a slap in the face. Those who are not end-gaming can be prepared to recieve a bit less damage than they are used to.

Cullen: So do Daewoo, Mitsubishi, Matsushita, Hyundai and a hundred other manufacturer conglomerates over in Asia. Then again, Daewoo also makes construction equipment and tanks (same with Hyundai). So really, get over it. From the sounding of the report it looks like some of these knockoffs are actually better than the originals they stole their look and design off of. I don't like to see the stolen look and feel, but I'm all for better tech at cheaper prices.

Honestly, not all of us live in a major metropolitan area. I live less than 20 miles outside of a major city area, and the mountains, redwoods trees, and tons of other things prevent us from getting good cell coverage. We have our own towers in the area, but even then, we will go from 2 to 3 bars to nothing, and then back again while driving. Wireless antenna boosters help beat those dead spots. Also for people who live in more rural areas, where the relay towers are very far apart, can also benefit from such a thing.
Products like this are not new. However it has become a new thing to do this wirelessly, so you phone _just works_ and you don't need to plug in and unplug an external antenna jack.

I am curious also if they have done any contracts with any major manufacturers.

It's nice to see a spinoff from the main site. I will say that there was getting to be a lot of Mobile stuff cluttering it up on the main page. I still love to read about it all, but it is very nice to have it seperated for me. Congrats and good luck.