{"id":299,"date":"2006-07-05T20:56:48","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T03:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/05\/the-dork-report-for-july-5-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:04","slug":"the-dork-report-for-july-5-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-5-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for July 5, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paranoid Androids want to know: Have you seen this man? [no longer online: have-you-seen-this-man.co.uk]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Doctor Who Season Two draws to a close, a pair of Who News (both spotted on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130527025302\/http:\/\/www.gallifreyone.com:80\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Outpost Gallifrey<\/a>): <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who&#8217;s the new Who Girl? <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140803222039\/http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/gallery\/martha\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freema Agyeman<\/a> is Martha Jones.<\/li><li>The Radio Times pits the Cybermen vs. the Daleks in the World Cup. [no longer online: bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/news\/cult\/news\/drwho\/2006\/07\/03\/33411.shtml]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>New technojargon: <em>Blackberry-go-round<\/em>: an endless whirlpool of second-guessing, spontaneous opining, and one-syllable utterances by a minimum of four executives mashing thumbs on portable email devices. (I doubt I&#8217;m the first to coin this, but I wanted to get it on record just in case)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, girls, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070515004732\/http:\/\/perezhilton.com\/topics\/listen_to_this\/watch_listen_to_this_the_hoff_makes_us_hot_20060702.php\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t hassle The Hoff<\/a>. (guest submission from The Halk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Ted Steven&#8217;s staff sends him internets through a series of tubes [no longer online: blog.wired.com\/27BStroke6\/?entry_id=1512499]. These are the people legislating the internet, mind. (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctor Doom, Spider-Man, The Thing, Dr. Strange, and Silver Surfer meet their maker [no longer available: newsarama.com\/marvelnew\/StanLee\/StanMeets.html]. Excelsior!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Snakes on a Plane <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080725034708\/http:\/\/www.snakesonablog.com\/2006\/07\/01\/snakes-on-a-new-poster\/\" target=\"_blank\">mutha&amp;%$@in&#8217; onesheet<\/a>. It&#8217;s just not cheesy enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paranoid Androids want to know: Have you seen this man? [no longer online: have-you-seen-this-man.co.uk] As Doctor Who Season Two draws to a close, a pair of Who News (both spotted on Outpost Gallifrey): Who&#8217;s the new Who Girl? Freema Agyeman is Martha Jones. The Radio Times pits the Cybermen vs. the Daleks in the World [&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-299","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-4P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-march-23-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for March 23, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I don't trust me, either (no longer online: ur.umn.edu\/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases\/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find). So there! The bizarre story of New Line's resolutely non-ironic Snakes on a Plane continues: Snakes on a Blog (no longer online: snakesonablog.com) and a slew of amateur marketing (no longer online: forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=1949081&thread_type=voteresults), most of which will probably be better\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-20-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":1},"title":"The Dork Report for June 20, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Most. Pagan. Watch. Ever. (no longer online: thinkgeek.com\/gadgets\/watches\/7d2b\/) (spotted on Boing Boing) Nature upends the fairytale (no longer online: cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/americas\/06\/20\/oatmeal.bear.ap). (guest submission from Godless Killing Machine Andrea) Shopify is going to be huge. Set up a complete, functioning e-commerce site (that doesn\u2019t look like ass) for free? 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Hey, wasn't that called Urge (no longer online: urge.com)? (spotted on Macintouch and AppleInsider) Actual photos from inside a Chinese iPod factory make me feel\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":319,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-14-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":3},"title":"The Dork Report for July 14, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"After years of getting picked up and put down by various labels, Joseph Arthur is launching his own independent label (no longer online: billboard.com\/bbcom\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839192), Lonely Astronaut. His new album Nuclear Daydream drops on September 19, to be followed by a long-awaited-by-The-Dork-Report US tour running through November. 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(spotted on Typographica) Macitt (no longer online: macitt.com), a Digg for Apple news. (spotted on Dougscripts.com) Although it's hardly unbiased, MacWorld picks apart Apple's claim [no longer online: macworld.com\/2006\/08\/features\/macproprice] that the Mac Pro is almost a thousand dollars cheaper than a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":415,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-17-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":299,"position":5},"title":"The Dork Report for September 17, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"September 17, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A new addition to the litter of kitty sites Stuff on My Cat (Stuff + Cats = Awesome), Cats That Look Like Hitler (Kitlers), and Kittenwar (may the cutest kitten win), comes Cats in Sinks (It's about cats. 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