{"id":362,"date":"2006-08-09T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/09\/the-dork-report-for-august-9-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:33","slug":"the-dork-report-for-august-9-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-9-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for August 9, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An utterly engrossing Manhattan Star Map<\/a>. How come I’ve never seen Dan Akroyd? (guest submission from Wishes-she-lived-on-the-Upper-West-Side Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mystery continues: how can the only Mac font manager worth using actually be free? Linotype FontExplorerX<\/a> is updated to 1.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Danes wants these so-called snakes out of her so-called life<\/a>, and this girl took down Arnold<\/a>, so you’d better listen, you punk-breath snakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fallout from AOL’s release of users’ search data continues. The New York Times<\/em> reports on the suprisingly poignant<\/a> personal issues that people look into when they think they’re alone: “mature living”, “depression and medical leave”, “how to kill oneself by natural gas.” (guest submission by Andrea)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An utterly engrossing Manhattan Star Map. How come I’ve never seen Dan Akroyd? (guest submission from Wishes-she-lived-on-the-Upper-West-Side Andrea) The mystery continues: how can the only Mac font manager worth using actually be free? Linotype FontExplorerX is updated to 1.1. Claire Danes wants these so-called snakes out of her so-called life, and this girl took down […]<\/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-362","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-5Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-march-23-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":362,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for March 23, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"March 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, I don't trust me, either (no longer online: ur.umn.edu\/FMPro?-db=releases&-lay=web&-format=umnnewsreleases\/releasesdetail.html&ID=2816&-Find). 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