{"id":268,"date":"2006-06-07T20:05:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T03:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/the-dork-report-for-june-7-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:30","slug":"the-dork-report-for-june-7-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-7-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for June 7, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fake is the new real: Photoshop before-and-afters make two women whom anybody would say are pretty seem fugly when juxtaposed with their digitally airbrushed clones: extreme makeover 1<\/a>, extreme makeover 2<\/a>. (with reporting by Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darwin busts a move. [update: no longer online: outube.com\/watch?v=BIeIWkK0t4s]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally a NYC dive bar with real<\/em> ambience [no longer online: nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/04\/magazine\/04funny_humor.html]. Hey, I own that cd!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every Mac user knows Mail.app \u201cgot beaten with the ugly stick<\/a>,\u201d but now The People are rising up against the Apple GUI fascists: stretch it sideways [update: no longer online: harnly.net\/software\/letterbox.html] and give it a shot of digital botox<\/a>. (spotted on Kottke.org<\/a> & IconFactory<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft succeeded with standardizing screen fonts<\/a> before, including Verdana and Arial (although many people rue the latter<\/a>), and now they’re at it again<\/a>. (spotted on Kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fake is the new real: Photoshop before-and-afters make two women whom anybody would say are pretty seem fugly when juxtaposed with their digitally airbrushed clones: extreme makeover 1, extreme makeover 2. (with reporting by Dave) Darwin busts a move. [update: no longer online: outube.com\/watch?v=BIeIWkK0t4s] Finally a NYC dive bar with real ambience [no longer online: […]<\/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-268","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-4k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":180,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-march-28-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for March 28, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Whitley's posthumous album Reiter In comes out today. 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