{"id":380,"date":"2006-08-23T20:44:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/23\/the-dork-report-for-august-23-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:33","slug":"the-dork-report-for-august-23-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-23-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for August 23, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whoda thunk, cows have accents [no longer online: cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/science\/08\/23\/cows.accent.reut] too. Do Canadian cows say &#8220;moooeh&#8221;, and do Bristol cows saw &#8220;mo'&#8221;? (guest submission from &#8220;Cows come you moo like you&#8217;re from the norf?&#8221; Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Up From the Catacombs: The Best of Jane&#8217;s Addiction<\/em> [no longer online: rhino.com\/rzine\/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=421], unfortunately including tracks from the 2003 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Ezrin\">Bob Ezrin<\/a>-produced travesty <em>Strays<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every Mac Dork is blogging about the alleged MacBook serious security flaw [no longer online: blog.washingtonpost.com\/securityfix\/2006\/08\/hijacking_a_macbook_in_60_seco.html], so I might as well chip in. <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2006\/08\/curious_case\">Daring Fireball<\/a> gives an impassioned, detailed overview of the controversy. Two observations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The passion with which self-appointed Windows evangelists attack Apple is amazing.<\/li><li>The passion with which self-appointed Apple evangelists defend Apple is amazing.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Apple controversy is brewing: Vivek Sambhara and others leaked a copy of Mac OS X Leopard onto the internet, and Apple&#8217;s legal department <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090210084053\/http:\/\/www.drunkenblog.com:80\/drunkenblog-archives\/000473.html\">came down on them like a ton of bricks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hoff Image Database [no longer online: hoffgallery.com] greatest hits: Dr. Hoff [no longer online: hoffgallery.com\/displayimage.php?album=8&amp;pos=13], <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060323091143\/http:\/\/www.hoffgallery.com\/displayimage.php?album=10&amp;pos=8\">MC Hoffer<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060323050227\/http:\/\/www.hoffgallery.com\/displayimage.php?album=8&amp;pos=5\">Being John Malkohoff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoda thunk, cows have accents [no longer online: cnn.com\/2006\/TECH\/science\/08\/23\/cows.accent.reut] too. Do Canadian cows say &#8220;moooeh&#8221;, and do Bristol cows saw &#8220;mo&#8217;&#8221;? (guest submission from &#8220;Cows come you moo like you&#8217;re from the norf?&#8221; Andrea) Up From the Catacombs: The Best of Jane&#8217;s Addiction [no longer online: rhino.com\/rzine\/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=421], unfortunately including tracks from the 2003 Bob Ezrin-produced [&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-380","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-68","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":376,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-16-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for August 16, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black (no longer online: veer.com\/ideas\/btt). (spotted on Typographica) Macitt (no longer online: macitt.com), a Digg for Apple news. 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The bizarre story of New Line's resolutely non-ironic Snakes on a Plane continues: Snakes on a Blog (no longer online: snakesonablog.com) and a slew of amateur marketing (no longer online: forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=1949081&thread_type=voteresults), most of which will probably be better\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":319,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-14-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":380,"position":3},"title":"The Dork Report for July 14, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"After years of getting picked up and put down by various labels, Joseph Arthur is launching his own independent label (no longer online: billboard.com\/bbcom\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002839192), Lonely Astronaut. 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