{"id":228,"date":"2006-05-31T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/02\/the-dork-report-for-may-31-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:30","slug":"the-dork-report-for-may-31-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-may-31-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for May 31, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wow, both sides of the isle are getting the axe<\/a>. Adobe will nix Macromedia Freehand in favor of Illustrator and Adobe GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver. My belove-to-hate Macromedia Fireworks, however, lives for now. Also of note is this article about merging the two massive sites<\/a>, even though it uses made-up words like “architected.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Computers take the mystery out of Mona’s voice [no longer online: cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/science\/05\/31\/mona.lisa.voice.reut] and smile<\/a>. (guest submission from Priceless Work of Art Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m Level Five<\/a>, if I do say so myself, with occasional and hopefully rare incidences of Level Four. (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another group<\/a> lays claim to the Holy Land. (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robin has two mommies<\/a>. Hooray for diversity in popular media, but imagine having to explain this one to your 8-year-old reading his first comic book. (guest submission from Secret Identity Rainbow Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spider-Man comes to town<\/a>, and he’s brought his alien symbiote buddy with him. (guest submission from Fairweather Comic Dork Andrea)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, both sides of the isle are getting the axe. Adobe will nix Macromedia Freehand in favor of Illustrator and Adobe GoLive in favor of Dreamweaver. My belove-to-hate Macromedia Fireworks, however, lives for now. Also of note is this article about merging the two massive sites, even though it uses made-up words like “architected.” Computers […]<\/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-228","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-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":300,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-6-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":228,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for July 6, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The 10 most beautiful Mac OS X apps (no longer online: phillryu.com\/2006\/07\/03\/the-top-ten-most-beautiful-os-x-apps), only one of which I use (Transmit). 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Another ordinary person's life [no longer online: blog.wired.com\/sterling\/index.blog?entry_id=1536428] revealed by her AOL search history. 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