The Dork Report for June 23, 2006

Whoda thunk, Clowns boost fertility (no longer online: sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13529244,00.html). Are they sure the clown wasn’t, you know, taking advantage of the situation? (spotted on Fortean Times)

Rest assured: the government is totally on top of this whole terrorism thing, snooping on your phone calls and “Swifting” through your bank records.

Matt Damon is Kirk.

Nobody does it betta, in a cardigan sweata (no longer online: youtube.com/watch?v=RbuNDrj6LM0).

Snakes on a Plane auditions.

Not to nitpick, but I believe this is actually a triple-dip.

Lost Girls, one of Alan Moore’s famously unfinished projects, is finally about to be published. Moore grants a massive interview (no longer online: comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7411) (more of an extended monologue, actually – honestly, the man thinks and speaks in paragraphs) on the subject of pornography.

Related to the above, the owners of the Peter Pan copyright are, perhaps unsurprisingly, not pleased (no longer online: canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/lifestyle/story.html) with the portrayal of Wendy as sexually active in her adult years.

The Motley Fool gives the music industry the slide-rule beat-down.

Two 2006 bootleg perspectives on the Pink Floyd legacy: Roger Waters live in Verona (no longer online: bigozine3.com/rarities/?p=18) and Dave Gilmour live in Manchester (no longer online: bigozine3.com/rarities/?p=13).


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