{"id":333,"date":"2006-07-22T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/the-dork-report-for-july-22-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:03","slug":"the-dork-report-for-july-22-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-22-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for July 22, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More wild Apple speculation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2006\/07\/22\/apple-to-do-ebooks\/\">eBooks<\/a> alongside a full-screen iPod <em>and<\/em> movie downloads? (spotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/pages\/2006\/07\/20060722213042.shtml\">MacRumors<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4939144.stm\">K-9 and Sarah Jane Smith<\/a>&#8216;s return to TV, with pictures! (spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130527025302\/http:\/\/www.gallifreyone.com:80\/news.php\">Outpost Gallifrey<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kottke highlights an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/06\/07\/independent-infographic\"><em>Independent<\/em> cover graphic<\/a> that briliantly illustrates international reaction to the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"strike\">Nutjob<\/span> UN Ambassador John Bolton performs some pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070501150528\/http:\/\/www.alternet.org:80\/blogs\/peek\/39156\/\">brutal calculus<\/a> on the relative worth of Lebanese vs. Israeli citizens&#8217; lives. What a bastard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything about Rhino Records&#8217; new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhino.com\/store\/digital\/\">Digital Store<\/a> seems great: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhino.com\/store\/digital\/outofprints.lasso\">out-of-print albums<\/a> that would otherwise be unavailable, a huge catalog of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhino.com\/store\/digital\/video.lasso\">music videos<\/a>, and hand-picked discounted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhino.com\/store\/digital\/hifives.lasso\">mini-compilations<\/a>. But they commit some of the biggest music sins of digital music sales (some of which are admittedly just the pet peeves of a music snob):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>alphabetizing solo artists by their first names, and any band whose name begins with &#8220;The&#8221; under &#8220;T&#8221;<\/li><li>supports only the extremely unpopular Windows Media DRM, excluding Linux, Macs, iPods, etc.<\/li><li>no reviews, credits, liner notes, or even original release dates<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation provides new <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071010045435\/http:\/\/www.eff.org:80\/IP\/faq\/\">FAQs (Frequently Awkward Questions)<\/a> for the entertainment industry. (spotted on BigO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconfactory.com\/\">The IconFactory<\/a> posted a cryptic message on their homepage Friday&#8230; what could they be up to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More wild Apple speculation: eBooks alongside a full-screen iPod and movie downloads? (spotted on MacRumors) More details on K-9 and Sarah Jane Smith&#8216;s return to TV, with pictures! (spotted on Outpost Gallifrey) Kottke highlights an Independent cover graphic that briliantly illustrates international reaction to the war. Nutjob UN Ambassador John Bolton performs some pretty brutal [&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-333","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-5n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":566,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-1-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":333,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for January 1, 2007","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"John Siracusa goes to town on .Mac (spotted on Daring Fireball). 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Despite the massive wealth of information, it still can't explain the greatest mystery yet: why Mr. Friendly was nominated for an Emmy and not, say, Michael Emerson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, or Terry O'Quinn (not to mention the show itself). 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