{"id":227,"date":"2006-05-30T20:29:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T03:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/the-dork-report-for-may-30-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:31","slug":"the-dork-report-for-may-30-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-may-30-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for May 30, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stock photography cliches<\/a>. They missed the ubiquitous asian guy with glasses (usually holding a Zip disk) who was everywhere<\/em> during the dot-com boom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woooooo… creepy<\/a>. (spotted on Fortean Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More awesome weirdness<\/a>. (spotted on Fortean Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gary Trudeau does in the funny pages what should be<\/a> on the front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Lost<\/em> action figure<\/a> is Charlie pulling a Night of the Hunter<\/em>. And just as an aside, remember when action figures were poseable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decepticons got they ass kicked, Transformas still old-skool like Coke Classic<\/a>. (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A part useful, part nonsense Lost<\/em> flowchart<\/span> (no longer online: pop.wizbangblog.com\/images\/2006\/05\/lostx.php). (guest submission from Everything is Connected Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picturehouse President Bob Berney tells the Boston Globe<\/em><\/span>: “I don’t think the audience cares how the film is financed or distributed.” Well, duh! But at least somebody<\/em> from Hollywood apparently gets that. (no longer online: boston.com\/ae\/movies\/articles\/2006\/05\/28\/new_wave_of_indie_cinema_fights_power_of_hollywood)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official Snakes on a Plane<\/em> site<\/span> (no loner online: snakesonaplane.com) launches a new “Snake Kit” feature… but you have to cough up your name, email, and birthdate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AppleInsider reports on Adobe Apollo<\/a>. Good news: Adobe claims it won’t merge Flash Player and Adobe Reader, as originally threatened. Bad news: looks like the corporate concept of Flash as online application development platform prevails. In other words, it’s being positioned further away from interactive designers (that is to say, me) and even more towards software engineers and programmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forget Batman vs. Superman<\/span> (no longer online: batman-versus-superman.com) or Jesus vs. Elvis<\/span> (no longer online: infidels.org\/misc\/humor\/jesus_vs_elvis.html), here’s the real contest: Neo vs. Robocop, Clint & Yoda<\/span> (no longer online: ifilm.com\/ifilmdetail\/2729649).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Eno<\/a> is<\/em> on the upcoming Roxy Music<\/a> album after all<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The head of music at Virgin Megastores is going around telling people vinyl is outselling cds<\/a> on new releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stock photography cliches. They missed the ubiquitous asian guy with glasses (usually holding a Zip disk) who was everywhere during the dot-com boom. Woooooo… creepy. (spotted on Fortean Times) More awesome weirdness. (spotted on Fortean Times) Gary Trudeau does in the funny pages what should be on the front. 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