Category: The Dork Report
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The Dork Report for October 18, 2006
Finally found the source of the whizz-bang Lightbox 2 image viewer and Coloir.org slideshow scripts I’ve been seeing all over the place these days. All Doctor Who fans with a sense of humor ought to bookmark Behind the Sofa (no longer online: tachyontv.typepad.com), a great blog providing uncensored appraisals of nearly every episode and alternate…
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The Dork Report for October 17, 2006
Some time recently Michael Brook’s official website has expanded with a full discography, newsletter, and store. Joseph Arthur’s official site has video of him performing “Slide Away” on The Late Show With David Letterman on October 10th. Steve Jobs must be in a romantic mood; every metaphor he musters to dismiss Doo-Doo Brown Zune in…
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The Dork Report for October 13, 2006
Practically every site featured on csstux (no longer online: csstux.com) is so gorgeously slick it’s a wonder I have a job as a web designer. Terry Gilliam busks on the streets of New York for his controversial new film Tideland. (spotted on Neil Gaiman’s Journal) The Independent has a long interview with Alan Moore (no…
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The Dork Report for October 12, 2006
The Village Voice‘s rave review of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s (porno)graphic novel Lost Girls. (spotted on EnoWeb) The next step in the evolution of Spoetry: The Brothers McLeod’s Spamland, a new series of short spanimations. (guest submission from Dave) The Internet Archive is collecting a massive cache of free and legal live recordings. Spotted…
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The Dork Report for October 11, 2006
New York magazine says Stephen Colbert has America by the Ballots. (guest submission by Andrea) R. Lee Ermey apparently isn’t concerned with publicly dissing one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. According to him, friend Stanley Kubrick privately confided in him that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman ruined Eyes Wide Shut. (spotted on Daring…
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The Dork Report for October 10, 2006
Screw the iPhone; EnoWeb has the scoop on the EnoPhone (no longer online: europe.nokia.com/A4176224), AKA the Nokia 8800 Sirocco. (click on “Experience the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition”) Awwww… throw a pity party for the victims (no longer online: msnbc.msn.com/id/15175836/site/newsweek/) of “guerrilla comedian named Sacha Baron Cohen”, aka Borat (no longer online: borat.tv). Funny how every…
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The Dork Report for October 9, 2006
The official movie site for Fast Food Nation features Web 2.0-ish newsfeeds from YouTube, del.icio.us, and other fun stuff. (spotted on Popwatch [no longer online: popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/10/fast_food_natio.html] by Happy Meal Andrea) Help make Optimus Prime say “I guess I’ll transformer into a truck now.” See also Top Ten Lines Optimus Prime Should Use in the New…
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The Dork Report for October 8, 2006
Brian Eno has composed a “soundtrack” for the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition phone. Here’s the Nokia press release, but I haven’t found any sound samples yet. Peter Gabriel announces the winners of the Real World Remixed “Shock the Monkey” competition. They sound great, so good in fact that they ought to be released on CD,…
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The Dork Report for October 5, 2006
Google Gadgets. What it has over Apple’s Dashboard, Yahoo Widgets, or Windows things, is that you can add them to your Google homepage, your desktop (Windows, or on a Mac with the help of Amnesty Generator), or to your own site. Making them only slightly less useless. The New York Times on how deep ABC…
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The Dork Report for October 3, 2006
U2 will release a definitive single-disc Best Of album in November, in addition to the two already-released Best of 1980-1990 and Best of 1990-2000. In preparation for the Lost season three premiere on Wednesday, I thought I would check out the end result of The Lost Experience, a summer-long alternate reality game I didn’t have…