{"id":188,"date":"2006-04-03T20:53:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T03:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/03\/the-dork-report-for-april-3-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:01","slug":"the-dork-report-for-april-3-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-april-3-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for April 3, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Careful, Doctor, you might <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070514054020\/http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk:80\/doctorwho\/news\/cult\/news\/drwho\/2006\/04\/01\/30852.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">sprain that eyebrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hot on the heels of <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/03\/26\/cnn.com.homepage\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN.com&#8217;s redesign<\/a> comes that of <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160526142228\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/02\/business\/02ednote.html\" target=\"_blank\">NYTimes.com<\/a>. The constant: catering to wiiiiiide monitors. The winner: the latter (if for no other reason than extending the redesign to the interior pages).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s a good music day: Gorillaz Live at the Apollo [no longer online: mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1525131\/20060301\/gorillaz.jhtml] and two new cds: The Flaming Lips&#8217; <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flaminglips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">At War With the Mystics<\/a> and Massive Attack <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120716193015\/http:\/\/www.massiveattack.co.uk\/collected\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collected<\/a>. Next week: Brian Eno &amp; David Byrne&#8217;s <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bush-of-ghosts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Life in the Bush of Ghosts<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taste the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180806020327\/http:\/\/tastetheexcitement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">meat<\/a>! Taste it! (guest submission by Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Dreaming of a stolen <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/26\/style\/tmagazine\/t_w_1037_1038_talk_freud_.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ei=5070&amp;en=d2839f500484e59b&amp;ex=1143781200\" target=\"_blank\">purse<\/a> has been interpreted as a metaphor for a missing penis&#8221; (guest submission by Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OMG, it&#8217;s <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backspace.com\/notes\/2006\/03\/05\/x.html\" target=\"_blank\">not just me<\/a>! (spotted on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/06\/03\/10675.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designers rise up! And, uh&#8230; <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samruby.com\/Villains\/Typeface\/typeface.htm\" target=\"_blank\">fight Spider-Man<\/a>. (spotted on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iconfactory.com\/news.asp\" target=\"_blank\">The IconFactory<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careful, Doctor, you might sprain that eyebrow. Hot on the heels of CNN.com&#8217;s redesign comes that of NYTimes.com. The constant: catering to wiiiiiide monitors. The winner: the latter (if for no other reason than extending the redesign to the interior pages). Tomorrow&#8217;s a good music day: Gorillaz Live at the Apollo [no longer online: mtv.com\/news\/articles\/1525131\/20060301\/gorillaz.jhtml] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-32","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":329,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-18-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":188,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for July 18, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"ThinkSecret spills more beans: August 7 may bring an iTunes movie rental service and a spit-polished iPod Nano 2.0. 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