{"id":379,"date":"2006-08-22T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T03:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/the-dork-report-for-august-22-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T15:24:47","slug":"the-dork-report-for-august-22-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-22-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for August 22, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My head is spinning, counting all these <em>Doctor Who<\/em> spinoffs! Cancelled before it even began was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/5271054.stm\"><em>Rose Tyler: Earth Defence<\/em><\/a>, starring Billie Piper. The other three are still in motion: definitely <em>Torchwood<\/em> and maybe <em>K-9 Adventures<\/em> and <em>Sarah Jane Investigates<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time Magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110924072931\/http:\/\/www.time.com:80\/time\/2006\/50coolest\/\">50 Coolest Websites for 2006<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130823131530\/http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/business\/article\/0,8599,1222769,00.html\">Top 25<\/a> overall). Yay <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180603081024\/http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/\">Cute Overload<\/a>! Boo Shockwave.com! (who knew you still existed? but you still suck for using a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adobe_Shockwave\">cross-platform technology<\/a> and excluding Macs anyway)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\">RightWingWatch.org<\/a>, a new blog keeping track of our own homegrown radical religious nutjobs, such as those that that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/hitler-as-darwins-love-child\/\">equate Darwin with Hitler<\/a> and use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/post\/missouri-stem-cell-rally-predicts-dystopian-future-clone-slavery\/\">cheesy science-fiction nightmares<\/a> to argue against stem cell research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google expands their world-domination plans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/its-official-google-acquires-writely\/\">Writely<\/a>, a browser-based word processor useful to practically everybody (competing, obviously, with Microsoft Office)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a>, for web site, uh, analytics (competing with things like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mint<\/span> &#8211; no longer online: haveamint.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Edge Magazine profiles <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Katamari creator Keita Takahashi<\/span> (no longer online: edge-online.co.uk\/archives\/2006\/01\/everybody_loves_1.php). The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">original print design<\/span> is fantastic (no longer online: edge-online.co.uk\/archives\/katamari11.php).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life imitates art: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081208235200\/http:\/\/www.local6.com:80\/news\/9717727\/detail.html\">Snakes in a Movie Theater<\/a>! (passed around at work)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My head is spinning, counting all these Doctor Who spinoffs! Cancelled before it even began was Rose Tyler: Earth Defence, starring Billie Piper. The other three are still in motion: definitely Torchwood and maybe K-9 Adventures and Sarah Jane Investigates. Time Magazine&#8217;s 50 Coolest Websites for 2006 (and Top 25 overall). Yay Cute Overload! Boo [&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-379","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-67","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":505,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-27-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":379,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for November 27, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"November 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"MacHeist 2 ended last week, so catching up: I've landed a free trial copy of 1Passwd; at first blush it looks like it might actually help me bring some sense to the password chaos of my online life. 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