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(spotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/pogue.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Pogue&#8217;s Posts<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\">Onion<\/a>, say <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090317090035\/http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com:80\/popwatch\/2006\/07\/onion_take_2.html\">it ain&#8217;t so<\/a>! (guest submission from Free Agent Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/c83.html\">Our love is like a katamari<\/a>. Except for the days when your distant &amp; disapproving father\/king rains hellfire down on you for failing him. (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of, hey, there&#8217;s a new one for PSP, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190514162846\/http:\/\/katamari.namco.com:80\/\">Me &amp; My Katamari<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you use that font again, I swear I will fucking snap.&#8221; (spotted on Design Observer) Why I&#8217;m a Mac User, reason no. 3,727. (spotted on Pogue&#8217;s Posts) Hey Onion, say it ain&#8217;t so! (guest submission from Free Agent Andrea) Our love is like a katamari. Except for the days when your distant &amp; disapproving [&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-331","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-5l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":451,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-october-12-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":331,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for October 12, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"October 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The Village Voice's rave review of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's (porno)graphic novel Lost Girls. 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