Last year's Toyota "four wheels of fury" commercial was certainly one of the most memorable World of Warcraft videos we've certainly seen. However, don't be so quick to drop it into the cracks of obscurity because it's back for another claim to fame as it recently found itself nominated in the 12th Annual Webby Awards. More details regarding this in our full article.

How many of you remember the old children's story about tortoise and the hare? Remember how the tortoise won the race by sheer perseverance? Well, it seems that Blizzard may have tapped into that story (sort of) as a Trading Card Game loot reward for World of Warcraft, except that there's no hare this time around and the tortoise is carrying someone on its back. More turtling follow after the jump.

While surfing the net, we found this funny World of Warcraft Toyota Commercial. Since it drew more than a few chuckles from the QJ.NET WoW team, we thought to share it as well with you, our readers.

This clip shows, in a rather funny way, that Blizzard has very good reasons for limiting the Epic mounts in World of Warcraft. Thanks to espanol20 who made this machinima vid, it looks like we're not getting trucks in the game any time soon.

Be sure to pay close attention to the Paladin in the video who strangely sounds like the Legendary Leeroy Jenkins.  We can't help but wonder if the failed Onyxia raid Leeroy is known for would have turned out differently if he was armed with one of the trucks featured in the current clip.

Anyway, here is the video entitled World of Warcraft Toyota Commercial. Enjoy!

QJ.NET would like to thank Michelle G. for the tip!

  

Dan Miller is one cool dude. Read on, and find out why.

Business journalist H.S. Ayoub recently submitted to Internet Stock blog SeekingAlpha a write-up on his experiences in Linden Lab's Second Life. Obviously the fellow focused more on the business aspects of the metaverse. He covered the recent activities of Cisco Systems, IBM, American Apparel, and Toyota within the virtual world.

What's noteworthy though about his report is his input on government – to be specific, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress - plans to start taxing transactions taking place within Second Life.  Ayoub takes time to note Dan Miller's view on the subject. Ayoub writes:

While the flurry of activity and monetary spending can attract the attention of businesses, it can also attract the government. The Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress is taking a hard look at the possibility of taxing income derived from virtual online worlds. But the general consensus is against any taxation at this time. The blogging community immediately condemned the committee's announcement last year, and Dan Miller, senior economist on the committee, agrees.

He believes that a realistic attempt at taxing virtual transactions could prove very difficult. It would place too much pressure on virtual administrators, such as Linden Lab, to keep tabs on the millions of transactions and player activities that occur every day. This, Miller believes, could slow down the impressive innovation taking place. It is not surprising to learn that the 64 year-old Miller is an avid World of Warcraft fan, and player!

Great, the great online businesses on Second Life, indirectly defended from taxation by a World of Warcraft player. The amazing teh internetz is. Amazing.