{"id":357,"date":"2006-08-01T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T06:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/the-dork-report-for-august-1-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:33","slug":"the-dork-report-for-august-1-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-1-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for August 1, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hi Iconfactory<\/a>, welcome back! You look so pretty and so Web 2.0-y! Loads of new stuff, including possibly the first useful desktop widget ever<\/a> (I’m not a fan of widgets) and a huge new suite of free awesome robot icons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out Peter Jackson had a few feet of leftover film he actually didn’t use, so now we have the King Kong Extended Edition<\/a>, with 13 additional minutes, due in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another must-buy DVD: Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier<\/a>, featuring both the 1979 and 2001 cuts, on August 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fake Leopard Screenshots were nothing, check out the fake iPhone commercials<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new contender for Dorkiest Link Ever (must do a Dork Report Greatest Hits entry some day): $198.99 buys you a Lego recreation<\/a> of the famous “1984” Apple TV ad directed by Ridley Scott. It’s got everything: iPods, Legos, movies… (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Got a song stuck in your head, like “My Humps<\/a>,” “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp<\/a>,” or “Feel Good Inc.<\/a>“? Exchange it for another with Maim That Tune<\/a>. (guest submission from Queen Apologist Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heath “Mumbles” Ledger is the Joker [no longer online: cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/08\/01\/film.ledger.reut]. Oh wow, whose idea was it to call it The Dark Knight<\/em>? They obviously didn’t run that one by a comic book dork focus group. One of the most famous (and commercially successful) graphic novels ever is called The Dark Knight<\/em>, and fans won’t accept anything less than a straight adaptation. Not to mention the fact that chunks of it were pillaged for the previous bat-movies anyway. (guest submission from Poison Ivy Andrea)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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