{"id":359,"date":"2006-08-04T17:19:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T00:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/the-dork-report-for-august-4-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:33","slug":"the-dork-report-for-august-4-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-4-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for August 4, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Exxon\/Mobile reports record profits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulf-daily-news.com\/Story.asp?Article=150861&amp;Sn=BUSI&amp;IssueID=29130\">$10.36 billion<\/a> for the last quarter, the highest yet not just for themselves but possibly for any company <em>ever<\/em>. You almost have to laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wikipedia&#8217;s entry on <em>Doctor Who<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Jane_Smith\">Sarah Jane Smith<\/a> clears something up. The good news: there are now apparently <em>two<\/em> additional <em>Doctor Who<\/em> spinoff series in production (to accompany next year&#8217;s <em>Torchwood<\/em>). The bad: what I had thought was a Sarah Jane &amp; K-9 show is actually two: the independently-produced <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K-9_Adventures\">K-9 Adventures<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Jane_Investigates\">Sarah Jane Investigates<\/a><\/em> from the BBC and writer\/producer Russell T. Davies. Either show may not feature both characters, which is quite a disappointment, as it would have been more than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alleged Mac OS X Leopard <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090121015302\/http:\/\/www.powerpage.org:80\/archives\/2006\/08\/exclusive_leopard_feature_set_leaked.html\">screenshots &amp; feature set<\/a> (spotted on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220714003627\/https:\/\/macintouch.com\/\">Macintouch<\/a>). If these are anything other than phake Photoshop phantasies, here are the highlights for me: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dashboard widgets will finally be available actually outside of the &#8220;Negative Zone.&#8221; Now they might actually be useful!<\/li><li>Mail 3.0? Let&#8217;s hope they give it a complete and total interfacelift (so to speak). <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing about <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130819060044\/http:\/\/quicksilver.blacktree.com\/\">Quicksilver<\/a> for ages, but never tried it because I didn&#8217;t really understand what it <em>was<\/em>. But I&#8217;m playing with it now and understand why&#8230; it&#8217;s a kind of blank slate that does nothing and yet everything. For any Mac users who might stumble upon this blog, I say try it right now (hey, it&#8217;s free, and <a href=\"http:\/\/vjarmy.com\/archives\/2004\/03\/quicksilver_a_b.php\">skim this<\/a> for a few ideas on how to use it). I suppose one way to describe it is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/spotlight\/\">Spotlight<\/a> could have and should have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brillig.com\/lego\/starry_night\/\">Starry Night in Lego<\/a>. (spotted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/06\/08\/11585.html\">Kottke.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exxon\/Mobile reports record profits of $10.36 billion for the last quarter, the highest yet not just for themselves but possibly for any company ever. You almost have to laugh. Wikipedia&#8217;s entry on Doctor Who&#8216;s Sarah Jane Smith clears something up. The good news: there are now apparently two additional Doctor Who spinoff series in production [&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-359","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":358,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-2-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":359,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for August 2, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 2, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Darth Vader as Doctor Evil: Zip it! 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