{"id":189,"date":"2006-04-05T21:36:39","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T04:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/05\/the-dork-report-for-april-5-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:01","slug":"the-dork-report-for-april-5-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-april-5-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for April 5, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A question most appropriate to this blog: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How geeky are you?<\/span> (no longer online: msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11977271\/site\/newsweek) (guest submission from Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pair of Doctor Who treats to kick off today&#8217;s Report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The BBC are being surprisingly generous in broadcasting <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070310171303\/http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk:80\/doctorwho\/tardisodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tardisodes<\/a> free online.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who is Doctor Who?<\/a>, Mickey&#8217;s video blog (if you can parse the accent).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Extra-strength tryptophan was clearly not enough to defeat <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080329150135\/http:\/\/deseretnews.com:80\/dn\/view\/0,1249,635197086,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hagryphus giganteus&#8217;s<\/a> predators. (guest submission from Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;cork and work&#8221; and&#8230; dork? <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131209024115\/http:\/\/www.spellingsociety.org\/news\/media\/poems.php\" target=\"_blank\">Absurdities of English Spelling<\/a> (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bjorn Tipling&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Color Tool<\/span> (no longer online: color.sharewonders.com) (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Apple fan\/apologist&#8217;s ultimate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hell freezes over scenario<\/span> (no longer online: apple.com\/macosx\/bootcamp). But maybe it&#8217;s time to <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150130191854\/http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2006\/04\/05\/blue-screen-of-death-on-an-imac\/\" target=\"_blank\">share the pain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/04\/05\/news\/tax_cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">don&#8217;t say<\/a>! Gosh, this really shakes my faith in our president. Cough, cough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a latecomer to this already-famous treasure: <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.overheardinnewyork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Overheard in New York<\/a>. Incidentally, Harvey Pekar has written a graphic novel biography of its founding editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wired counts seven <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.04\/start.html?pg=5\" target=\"_blank\">sci-fi concept albums<\/a>. Only seven? I nominate <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081121114840\/http:\/\/www.rawbw.com\/%7Emarka\/music\/lamb.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway<\/a> (more surreal fantasy than sci-fi, perhaps?) and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/johncovach\/yestales.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tales from Topographic Oceans<\/a> (too sucky?). The latter clocks in at no. 4 in the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060223175715\/http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com:80\/issues\/1996-10-31\/music\/music3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Scariest Concept Albums of All Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question most appropriate to this blog: How geeky are you? (no longer online: msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11977271\/site\/newsweek) (guest submission from Andrea) A pair of Doctor Who treats to kick off today&#8217;s Report: Extra-strength tryptophan was clearly not enough to defeat Hagryphus giganteus&#8217;s predators. (guest submission from Andrea) &#8220;cork and work&#8221; and&#8230; dork? Absurdities of English Spelling (guest [&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-189","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-33","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":499,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-5-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":189,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for November 5, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"November 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Telegraph interviews Peter Gabriel on freedom from choice, Lithuanian rap music, and passing on the Genesis reunion. 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