World of Warcraft players were treated to an uncommon occurrence recently when hundreds of gnomes fell from the sky, perishing upon impact. Their corpses were arranged in sequence to advertise the web site of WowMine.com, a third-party service dealing in in-game gold sales. The corpse storm was triggered by a client-side hack, according to a post on blogger Raph Koster's site, and were arranged in text form just outside the server's bank and auction house.

Scummy? Maybe. Creative? Definitely. Blizzard doesn't look favorably upon the act of gold farming or reselling of virtual assets from its ultra popular MMO, so some vendors are forced to work around traditional methods of publicizing themselves. Given that we're now talking about their actions, it sounds like they were successful.

Gnomes Rain From Azeroth's Skies [Clickable Culture]