Daily Dork Report for March 2, 2006

Wow, dude from Dominos is straight-up hard-core Catholic (no longer online: news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=315402006), baby. Watch your tail, Chick-fil-a.

Steampunk Transformers (no longer online: idwpublishing.com/titles/transformers/hos.shtml), with art by… Ted McKeever (no longer online: luna7.com/tmckeever/tmckeever.html)?! Isn’t that sort of like hiring David Lynch (no longer online: davidlynch.com) to direct G.I. Joe?

Mickey is now a one-button mouse.

My difficult-to-pronounce boy from Philly is certainly a big-spender.

This is simultaneously fascinating and enraging (no longer online: familymediaguide.com/specials/Oscars_2006.html). I sympathize with parents who don’t have time to keep up with popular culture and need an unbiased information source to judge for themselves whether or not a movie is appropriate for their kids, but I don’t think this is it. Who are these people? Who appointed them? I’m worried they are indirectly censoring films, under the guise of informing parents. It’s about the children, you understand.

Let’s see, what did we get out of Apple’s latest extravaganza:

  • iPod Hi-Fi (no longer online: apple.com/ipodhifi): No doubt a fun toy for flush audiofiles, but kinda useless for a New York City apartment-dweller like myself.
  • Mac Mini: Take out the video card, add a remote control, and it costs $100 more? Although to be totally honest, I must admit I don’t really understand what a video card does. While the whole concept of a Mac media center thingie on my TV sounds really neat, the price hike completely soured it for me.
  • Leather iPod Case: insanely overpriced cow-flesh sleeve with no access to the face. In other words, it’s designed specifically to scratch your iPod. I just have to join in the chorus here: What were they thinking?

Thank goodness that during the phenomenal catastrophe that was Katrina, Bush was watching a lot of television and asking a lot of good questions.

Absolute Sandman. Darn. Guess I wasted my time and money tracking down those first-edition hardcovers on eBay…

Portions of today’s blockbuster Dork Report were brought to you by Andrea & Dave.


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