The Dork Report for May 24, 2006

EW asks, is Jon Stewart a symptom or the cure? (guest submission from Likes-a-Little-Salt-in-Her-Pepper Andrea)

Jamie Hewlett (of Tank Girl and Gorillaz fame) is the London Design Museum’s Designer of the Year. Via the official Gorillaz newsletter, 2D had this to say: “Yeah, he’s definitely a top drawer. I’ve seen some of his pictures and he’s coloured them in really well. He hasn’t even gone over the edges.”

Also from the Gorillaz newsletter: Murdoc is looking for his roots.

Finally a good reason to whack your computer upside the head. (guest submission from Dave)

Lost action figures [no longer online: variety.com/article/VR1117943832?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565] from McFarlane. Seeing as how there’s already one dead character included, I guess it’s not a hint as to who might die tonight. (guest submission from Batten-Down-the-Hatches Andrea)

It was so delayed I stopped checking, but sometime in the past two weeks or so, David Byrne and Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [no longer online: http://bushofghosts.wmg.com] Creative Commons remix project went live.

Speaking of Creative Commons, Pearl Jam have released Life Wasted, a music video for free download & distribution.

The dork equivalent of a strip tease. [no longer available: unboxing.com] (guest submission from Dave)

Neil Gaiman & Adam Rogers on Superman for Wired (spotted on Boing Boing). For a strikingly personal take on actually writing Superman, see Steven Seagle’s It’s a Bird…

Want to self-publish a cd or dvd, and have a chunk of change to do it right? Jewelboxing Studio.


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