{"id":296,"date":"2006-06-26T20:52:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T03:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/26\/the-dork-report-for-june-26-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:27:30","slug":"the-dork-report-for-june-26-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-26-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for June 26, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Look, robots<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1,000 2,000-year-old skeletons<\/span> (no longer online: news.scotsman.com\/international.cfm?id=916922006). (spotted on Fortean Times<\/span>) (no longer online: forteantimes.com\/breaking_news\/breaking_news.shtml)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beatles are taking it to Vegas<\/a>. But what really interests me is the NY Times reporter’s preview of the new Beatles remixes\/remasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After audio quality, the next detraction to digital music is the lack of packaging, artwork, liner notes, etc. Some “albums” on iTunes include PDF documents as “digital booklets”, but now The Residents<\/a> have a new scheme<\/span> (no longer online: cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/26\/music.residents.reut) on how the music industry might transition the long tradition of album packaging to the digital realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mac-obsessed Goobers who can’t wait for Mac OS 10.5 (“Leopard”) are already mocking up their own fantasy versions in Photoshop: Dream 1<\/a> , Dream 2<\/a> (spotted on AppleInsider<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look, robots! 1,000 2,000-year-old skeletons (no longer online: news.scotsman.com\/international.cfm?id=916922006). (spotted on Fortean Times) (no longer online: forteantimes.com\/breaking_news\/breaking_news.shtml) The Beatles are taking it to Vegas. But what really interests me is the NY Times reporter’s preview of the new Beatles remixes\/remasters. After audio quality, the next detraction to digital music is the lack of packaging, artwork, […]<\/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-296","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-4M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":410,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-9-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for September 9, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"September 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"An Ultimately negative (but insightfully so) piece on Watchmen, gleaned from its Wikipedia entry: \"Fighting Evil, Quoting Nietzsche: Did the comic book really need to grow up?\" by Tom Shone. 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