{"id":350,"date":"2006-07-30T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T19:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/30\/the-dork-report-for-july-30-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:03","slug":"the-dork-report-for-july-30-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-30-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for July 30, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Breck Eisner&#8217;s 1994 student film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L1v5YAuooeo\">Recon<\/a>,&#8221; starring a cyberpunk Peter Gabriel. I&#8217;ve always wanted to see this&#8230; never occurred to me to check out YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to further illustrate that YouTube has everything, here&#8217;s video of &#8220;Rachel Blake&#8217;s&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VF2Ys9qORbM\">impassioned Hanso Foundation protest<\/a> at the Comic-Con <em>Lost<\/em> panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catching up on Neil Gaiman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A sample of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2006\/06\/sunday-morning-again.html\">newly remastered<\/a> <em>Absolute Sandman<\/em>, Volume One of which incidentally now has a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121003033559\/http:\/\/neilgaiman.net:80\/single-item-detail.php?id=G1753\">cover<\/a> and release date (November 1).<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121006055554\/http:\/\/neilgaiman.net:80\/single-item-detail.php?id=G1737\"><em>Fragile Things<\/em><\/a>, a new book and cd of short stories, coming on September 26.<\/li><li>The cover and some art from his new comics series, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequart.com\/news\/index.php?story=1001\"><em>Eternals<\/em><\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/uploaded_images\/ETRNLS001002s_color-734502.jpg\">more here<\/a>). For dorks in the know, there&#8217;s a stunning bit of news at the bottom of the page&#8230; Marvel has agreed to (re?)publish <em>Miracleman<\/em> when the rights clear?! (of course, Gaiman&#8217;s been in court over that matter for at least a decade, so I&#8217;m not holding my breath)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aol.com\/\">AOL.com<\/a> (now free to the public, with tons of video), <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220529043814\/https:\/\/aimfight.com\/\">AIM Fight<\/a>, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aimpages.com\/\">AIM Pages<\/a>, AOL is trying really hard to look cool in the face of massive impending layoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100214065633\/http:\/\/www.filmcritic.com\/misc\/emporium.nsf\/95a45e26914c25ff862562bb006a85f2\/394a496e465c4f38882571b900114dc5?OpenDocument\">Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time<\/a>. The usual suspects are present and accounted for (<em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, <em>Casablanca<\/em>, <em>Brazil<\/em>, etc.) but kudos for including less obvious choices (and Dork Report favorites) like <em>Before Sunset<\/em>, <em>Brazil<\/em>, <em>Rushmore<\/em>, and <em>Big Night<\/em>. (spotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/06\/07\/11542.html\">Kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breck Eisner&#8217;s 1994 student film &#8220;Recon,&#8221; starring a cyberpunk Peter Gabriel. I&#8217;ve always wanted to see this&#8230; never occurred to me to check out YouTube. Just to further illustrate that YouTube has everything, here&#8217;s video of &#8220;Rachel Blake&#8217;s&#8221; impassioned Hanso Foundation protest at the Comic-Con Lost panel. Catching up on Neil Gaiman: A sample 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-350","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-5E","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":375,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-14-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":350,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for August 14, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A playable Lego guitar (no longer online: geekasaurus.com\/clint\/gallery\/legoguitar). 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(spotted on Popwatch [no longer online: popwatch.ew.com\/popwatch\/2006\/10\/fast_food_natio.html] by Happy Meal Andrea) Help make Optimus Prime say \"I guess I'll transformer into a truck now.\" See also Top Ten Lines Optimus Prime\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":219,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-may-16-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":350,"position":2},"title":"The Dork Report for May 16, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"May 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Endor freezes over into Hoth. 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