{"id":131,"date":"2006-01-25T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T20:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:25:22","slug":"daily-dork-report-for-january-25-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/daily-dork-report-for-january-25-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Dork Report for January 25, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In interactive design news, Microsoft announces a “Flash Killer<\/a>“? Please. Adobe tried<\/a> it, failed, and resorted to buying their only competetor Macromedia. Can somebody please explain to me how that’s legal<\/a>? So I suppose one way to look at things is that a resumption of competition is good news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yo, watch the way I navigate! The new Gorillaz<\/a> EP Feel Good Inc is new to the iTunes Music Store. Kudos to the iTMS for carrying more music otherwise only available on pricy imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memo to Costco: what with your fancy-pants biometrics technology<\/span> (no longer online: money.cnn.com\/2006\/01\/24\/magazines\/fortune\/pluggedin_fortune_biometrics\/ and all, keep an eye out for that crazy Wendy’s lady [link no longer online: english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/148A8A21-6BF1-4651-B2FD-99BC3BC6357F.htm]. It’s gotta be a big-time world-spanning meme<\/a> if it hits Aljazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better pundits than I have surely already opined at great length at this, but isn’t it odd Google will accommodate China<\/span> (no longer online: money.cnn.com\/2006\/01\/25\/news\/international\/google_china.reut\/) but fight for its right to party in the US<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snakes on a mutha#*$&ing Plane<\/span>! (no longer online: wigu.com\/overcompensating\/2005\/09\/snakes-on-plane.html) Another piece<\/a> de<\/a> resistance<\/a><\/em> from New Line Cinema. I gotta get me one a these mutha&$#@s<\/span>! (no longer online: topatoco.com\/snakes.htm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe I was wrong<\/a> to have such a pet peeve with sci-fi films with efficient<\/a> public<\/a> transportation<\/a> set only about 10 years in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In interactive design news, Microsoft announces a “Flash Killer“? Please. Adobe tried it, failed, and resorted to buying their only competetor Macromedia. Can somebody please explain to me how that’s legal? So I suppose one way to look at things is that a resumption of competition is good news. Yo, watch the way I navigate! 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