{"id":213,"date":"2006-05-01T06:35:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/14\/the-dork-report-for-may-1-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:00","slug":"the-dork-report-for-may-1-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-may-1-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for May 1, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Events have conspired to make today’s Dork Report the biggest ever, now with 47% more dork! A total computer failure plugged up the works, backing up dork all the way to our eyeballs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quotable Neil<\/span> (no longer online: quotableneil.blogspot.com). Must he be so bloody clever?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorkbot NYC<\/span> (no longer online: dorkbot.org): people doing strange things with electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew it was coming, but I’m going to have a hard time getting used to saying Adobe Flash Player<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those times when you really need to throw a cd hard enough to shatter it (and find a use for that big box of Legos in your parents’ basement): Lego cd thrower<\/a> (spotted on Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ack! Ex-Fox News pundit Tony Snow, now White House Press Secretary, went to my college<\/a>! According to Time Magazine (May 8, 2006), “Snow says he was a liberal until he read Marx in college, and realized it was all indecipherable hokum.” OK, let’s parse this statement: First, if he couldn’t decipher Marx, how can he dismiss it as hokum? Second, what does comprehending (or not) Marx have to do with being a liberal? He’ll fit in nicely at the White House; celebrate ignorance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graphic Classics<\/a>, new Penguin editions with covers by graphic artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graphic designer that created<\/span> (no longer online: syncmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1887818,00.asp) the Apple logo did it pro bono?! Hey, at least slip the guy a Nano or something. (spotted on Kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like Wes Anderson’s new AmEx ad<\/a> better than M. Night’s. (spotted on Kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ads on iTunes<\/a>?! I feared the worst, but it seems it’s for ESPN podcast listeners only. Eh, they get what they deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know how I know you’re a prog-rock fan? Rumors of Asia<\/a> touring. Hey, it could have been worse; it could have been GTR<\/span> (no longer online: dprp.net\/forgotten\/gtr). (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cower before the Legion of Shitty Villains<\/a>. (guest submission from The Evil Baroness of Doom, Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geeks and their toys<\/span> (no longer online: geekologie.com). (guest submission from Friend-to-Dorks-Everywhere Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could have so<\/em> used these<\/a> on my last project (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adidas’ new campaign Adicolor<\/span> (no longer online: adidas.com\/us\/adicolor) features work by Dork Report favorites Charlie White<\/a> (a bizarre photographer whom I saw speak at Semi-Permanent05 NYC<\/a>; also the director of the strangely moving video for Interpol’s Evil<\/span> (no longer online: colonelblimp.com\/directors\/charliewhite)) and Shynola<\/a> (among other things, creators of Junior Senior’s Move Your Feet<\/a> and Blur’s Good Song<\/a> videos). Watch the films in the Podcast<\/span> (iTunes link no longer online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pimp your e-mail like it’s 1996 with the ASCII Text Generator<\/a> (guest submission from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Events have conspired to make today’s Dork Report the biggest ever, now with 47% more dork! A total computer failure plugged up the works, backing up dork all the way to our eyeballs. Quotable Neil (no longer online: quotableneil.blogspot.com). Must he be so bloody clever? Dorkbot NYC (no longer online: dorkbot.org): people doing strange things […]<\/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-213","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-3r","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-22-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":213,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for June 22, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Why Hollywood never gets any work done. 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