Category: The Dork Report

How much do Lost fans not know? IGN’s Top 50 Lost Loose Ends (no longer online: tv.ign.com/articles/745/745595p1.html). (spotted on TV Squad) (no longer online: tvsquad.com/2006/11/27/ign-lists-the-top-50-lost-mysteries)

Python Terry Jones steps out of drag and crunches the numbers on the Iraq war (spotted on Neil Gaiman’s Journal):

This will bring the total spent on the White House’s current obsession with war to almost $500bn – enough to have given every US citizen $1,600 each. I wonder which the voters would have gone for if given the choice: shall we (a) give every American $1,600 or (b) spend the money on bombing a country in the Middle East that doesn’t use lavatory paper?

Of course, there’s another thing that George Bush could have done with the money: he could have given every Iraqi $18,700.

Terry Jones

A dream interview, no matter which way around: Read Yourself Raw runs the complete transcription of Alan Moore vs Brian Eno (no longer online: readyourselfraw.com/profiles/moore/moore_vs_eno/chainreaction_eno.htm) originally on BBC Radio 4.

The condensed Kottke.org, 2006 edition.

Holy frak! Battlestar Galactica hasn’t merely been granted a fourth season, there’s also to be a direct-to-dvd feature film. (spotted on BattlestarGalacticaSite.com) (no longer online: battlestargalacticasite.com/2007/01/battlestar_galactica_movie.php)

After a period of relative quiet after being hounded by Apple’s lawyers (during which they often focused on scooping other companies’ unreleased projects like Adobe CS3), ThinkSecret returns to form with a real piece of Apple news: actual screenshot from a forthcoming spreadsheet app [no longer online: thinksecret.com/news/0701iwork.html] likely to be a part of iWork ’07 almost sure to be announced at MacWorld next week.

That sound you just heard was this Dork Reporter having a geekgasm. Damon Albarn & Terry Gilliam have teamed to create a Gorillaz feature film. (no longer online: pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/39801/Damon_Albarns_Resume_Is_Better_Than_Yours)

If ever a band were known for hating each other, it’s The Police. Despite everything, they’re planning a reunion (no longer online: harpmagazine.com/news/detail.cfm?article=10783) (spotted on Popwatch).

I’m probably one of the last people in the world to see this, but it’s so awesome I must post it nonetheless: Lasse Gjertsen’s short film “Amateur”, on The Wall Street Journal.

33 new drawings by Dave McKean (no longer online: subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=gaiman&Category_Code=B&Product_Count=36) for the Mirrormask script book (spotted on Neil Gaiman’s Journal)

John Siracusa goes to town on .Mac (spotted on Daring Fireball). Yes, it’s expensive, painfully slow, and sometimes unreliable, but I am still totally and utterly wedded to it. I don’t want it dead, I want it fixed.

Lego Digital Designer (no longer online: ldd.lego.com) (spotted on The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Gorillaz iTunes exclusives: Feel Good Inc, Dare, Dirty Harry, and El Mañana.

That nice Pennsylvania boy Trent’s been busy: upcoming New Nine Inch Nails live DVD and studio album. (spotted on Paper Thin Walls [no longer online: paperthinwalls.com/bullhorn/item?id=1205])

Transformers trailer. (guest submission from Andrea)

50 Lost Movie Classics. Seen: Petulia, Top Secret, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Safe, The Parallax View, Save the Last Dance, Beautiful Girls, Millions. Heard of: The Swimmer, Bamboozled, 3 Women, Breathless. (guest submission from Andrea)

Ahh… a life in the day of Tom Baker. (spotted on Kasterborous [no longer online: kasterborous.com/news.asp?id=878])