Category: The Dork Report
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The Dork Report for September 30, 2006
Like Doctor Who‘s perpetually predicted feature film, the Genesis reunion rumors keep coming back. Now The Sunday Mirror cites a source claiming Phil Collins’ recent divorce has cleared the way for a 3-piece Banks/Collins/Rutherford Genesis reunion world tour (no longer online: sundaymirror.co.uk/showbiz/radar/) in 2007. I call bullshit, but we’ll see. The LEGO Fanlisting (no longer…
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The Dork Report for September 28, 2006
Claim a space for yourself on the official site for Neil Gaiman’s new short story collection Fragile Things (and see if you can find Neil while you’re at it). MyDreamApp round 2 voting [no longer online: mydreamapp.com] is open; vote for 12 out of 18 wannabe America’s Next Top Mac Programs. My favorite (the only…
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The Dork Report for September 27, 2006
Jasper Hauser on designing an icon. Steven Heller interviews Gary Hustwit, director of the documentary Helvetica. A new record in narrowly focused blogs: Hawk Wings (no longer online: hawkwings.net) focuses exclusively on Apple’s Mail.app. Who knew there were so many add-ons (no longer online: hawkwings.net/plugins.htm)? Disco (no longer online: discoapp.com/blog) is having Toast for breakfast.…
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The Dork Report for September 26, 2006
Greenpeace asks for a greener Apple [no longer online: greenpeace.org/apple]. Although Greenpeace is most concerned with the noxious chemicals in devices Apple markets as disposable (aka planned obsolescence), Apple’s product packaging has also long been an issue. Until recently, it seemed as if they had been making progress; iPod boxes, for example, went from large…
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The Dork Report for September 22, 2006
Aww, look! The cutest li’l spaceships you ever did see, from IconFactory. Voting is open for the MyDreamApp first elimination round [no longer online: mydreamapp.com/vote]. You can vote for up to 18 projects, so the task is really better described as choosing which 6 will have to leave the island. The three I find most…
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The Dork Report for September 20, 2006
Yo La Tengo, Hoboken institution, says I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (no longer online: iamnotafraidofyouandiwillbeatyourass.com) The endearing cat sites just keep coming; now we have My Fat Kat (no longer online: myfatkat.com). I take it myfatcat.com was taken. I take back everything I ever said to Buckminster about…
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The Dork Report for September 17, 2006
A new addition to the litter of kitty sites Stuff on My Cat (Stuff + Cats = Awesome), Cats That Look Like Hitler (Kitlers), and Kittenwar (may the cutest kitten win), comes Cats in Sinks (It’s about cats. In sinks.). Guest submission from Andrea. It’s your semi-daily Dork Report dose of Doctor Who: Currently enjoying…
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The Dork Report for September 14, 2006
Zune comes in (eww…) doo-doo brown (no longer online: news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6115689-6.html). I need to find a copy of Scott McCloud’s Destroy, the most violent comic book ever! Despite what their name implies, the Star Wars “Original Trilogy” DVDs are certainly not definitive releases of the original films. The official word from Lucasfilm is that the original…
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The Dork Report for September 12, 2006
Three cheers for Wikipedia defying China’s censors! Boo hiss Google and Yahoo! (spotted on Boing Boing) It’s always fun to read DVD Time’s reviews of Doctor Who DVDs, written from the perspective of longtime fans. The upcoming The Mark of the Rani DVD just reminds me how unexcited I am for the character’s return in…
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The Dork Report for September 9, 2006
An Ultimately negative (but insightfully so) piece on Watchmen, gleaned from its Wikipedia entry: “Fighting Evil, Quoting Nietzsche: Did the comic book really need to grow up?” by Tom Shone. Quinn [no longer online: simonhaertel.de]: a really fun and really free Tetris falling blocks game for the Mac. Serve with Chips has loads of scoops…