{"id":195,"date":"2006-04-21T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/the-dork-report-for-april-21-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:00","slug":"the-dork-report-for-april-21-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-april-21-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for April 21, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cssbeauty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CSS Beauty<\/a>, a great web design resource I hadn&#8217;t seen before. Watch the layout rearrange itself as you resize the window. Neat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary of State, check, unlikely teen hero, check, super-hot and super-smart codebreaker, <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/filmforce.ign.com\/articles\/702\/702518p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">OK, fine<\/a>. But who&#8217;s going to play the dog that survives as humans around him are crushed and\/or incinerated by killer robots from outer space? (guest submission by Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J.J. Abrams to reboot <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060502072946\/http:\/\/today.reuters.com:80\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=filmNews&amp;storyid=2006-04-21T071334Z_01_N20133512_RTRIDST_0_FILM-LEISURE-STARTREK-DC.XML\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, the US Goverment brazenly <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/21\/health\/21marijuana.html\" target=\"_blank\">denies science<\/a>. A review by \u201cthe Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences, the nation&#8217;s most prestigious scientific advisory agency\u201d? Who needs scientists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSS Beauty, a great web design resource I hadn&#8217;t seen before. Watch the layout rearrange itself as you resize the window. Neat! Secretary of State, check, unlikely teen hero, check, super-hot and super-smart codebreaker, OK, fine. But who&#8217;s going to play the dog that survives as humans around him are crushed and\/or incinerated by killer [&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-195","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-39","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":320,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-16-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for July 16, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Update to the previous Dork Report: check out Joseph Arthur's new independent label Lonely Astronaut's official site. 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I've always wanted to see this... never occurred to me to check out YouTube. Just to further illustrate that YouTube has everything, here's video of \"Rachel Blake's\" impassioned Hanso Foundation protest at the Comic-Con Lost panel. 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