{"id":278,"date":"2006-06-14T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/the-dork-report-for-june-14-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:30","slug":"the-dork-report-for-june-14-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-14-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for June 14, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Watch Yahoo.com evolve [no longer online: news.com.com\/2300-1032_3-6072801-1.html] from a list of blue links to lots of lists of blue links. Two of The Dork Report&#8217;s favorite topics, rolled up into one: evolution and web design!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;re today&#8217;s Mac-obsessed gooberlinks: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story.php?news_id=14867\" target=\"_blank\">sucks about Mac OS X<\/a>? A lot, actually. I agree wholeheartedly with the proliferation of inconsistent themes (<em>especially<\/em> Mail), but not about the built-in Google search box, which I use dozens of times every day. Besides, you <em>can<\/em> remove it if you want to. (spotted on Macintouch.com)<\/li><li>Who <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110720112601\/http:\/\/www.macworld.co.uk\/news\/index.cfm?RSS&amp;NewsID=14915\" target=\"_blank\">made your iPod<\/a>? (spotted on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220714003627\/https:\/\/macintouch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macintouch.com<\/a>)<\/li><li>Golly golly golly, Steve&#8217;s well-oiled perfection machine&#8230; sometimes isn&#8217;t [no longer online: video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-6529834901915639077&amp;q=genre%3Acomedy]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Marvel Comics nutjob Avi Arad goes indie [no longer online: ifmagazine.com\/new.asp?article=3045] and disses the most interesting movie [no longer online: thehulk.com] Marvel ever made. (guest submission from Roving Comics Reporter Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tune in to see who gets voted out of the litterbox in Kitty Survivor [no longer online: www.ew.com:80\/ew\/article\/reuters\/0,24012,1203382_10_0_,00.html]. (guest submission from Meow Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey Thirtysomething Perpetual Boys, <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hlj.com\/product\/TKT72302\" target=\"_blank\">upgrade a cherished toy<\/a> for a mere \u00a518,000! (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the naive Kitten of Doom [no longer online: youtube.com\/watch?v=p2wyhgP0FVo] taunt fate. (spotted on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090807063734\/http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/video_dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Yahoo.com evolve [no longer online: news.com.com\/2300-1032_3-6072801-1.html] from a list of blue links to lots of lists of blue links. Two of The Dork Report&#8217;s favorite topics, rolled up into one: evolution and web design! Here&#8217;re today&#8217;s Mac-obsessed gooberlinks: What sucks about Mac OS X? A lot, actually. I agree wholeheartedly with the proliferation of [&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-278","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-4u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":293,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-21-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":278,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for June 21, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Vintage 2001: A Space Odyssey goodness: Kubrick at the premiere and an interview with actors Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. 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