Events have conspired to make today’s Dork Report the biggest ever, now with 47% more dork! A total computer failure plugged up the works, backing up dork all the way to our eyeballs.
Quotable Neil (no longer online: quotableneil.blogspot.com). Must he be so bloody clever?
Dorkbot NYC (no longer online: dorkbot.org): people doing strange things with electricity.
I knew it was coming, but I’m going to have a hard time getting used to saying Adobe Flash Player.
For those times when you really need to throw a cd hard enough to shatter it (and find a use for that big box of Legos in your parents’ basement): Lego cd thrower (spotted on Boing Boing)
Ack! Ex-Fox News pundit Tony Snow, now White House Press Secretary, went to my college! According to Time Magazine (May 8, 2006), “Snow says he was a liberal until he read Marx in college, and realized it was all indecipherable hokum.” OK, let’s parse this statement: First, if he couldn’t decipher Marx, how can he dismiss it as hokum? Second, what does comprehending (or not) Marx have to do with being a liberal? He’ll fit in nicely at the White House; celebrate ignorance!
Graphic Classics, new Penguin editions with covers by graphic artists.
The graphic designer that created (no longer online: syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1887818,00.asp) the Apple logo did it pro bono?! Hey, at least slip the guy a Nano or something. (spotted on Kottke.org)
I like Wes Anderson’s new AmEx ad better than M. Night’s. (spotted on Kottke.org)
Ads on iTunes?! I feared the worst, but it seems it’s for ESPN podcast listeners only. Eh, they get what they deserve.
You know how I know you’re a prog-rock fan? Rumors of Asia touring. Hey, it could have been worse; it could have been GTR (no longer online: dprp.net/forgotten/gtr). (guest submission from Dave)
Cower before the Legion of Shitty Villains. (guest submission from The Evil Baroness of Doom, Andrea)
Geeks and their toys (no longer online: geekologie.com). (guest submission from Friend-to-Dorks-Everywhere Andrea)
I could have so used these on my last project (forthcoming).
Adidas’ new campaign Adicolor (no longer online: adidas.com/us/adicolor) features work by Dork Report favorites Charlie White (a bizarre photographer whom I saw speak at Semi-Permanent05 NYC; also the director of the strangely moving video for Interpol’s Evil (no longer online: colonelblimp.com/directors/charliewhite)) and Shynola (among other things, creators of Junior Senior’s Move Your Feet and Blur’s Good Song videos). Watch the films in the Podcast (iTunes link no longer online).
Pimp your e-mail like it’s 1996 with the ASCII Text Generator (guest submission from
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