{"id":381,"date":"2006-08-24T20:45:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T03:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/24\/the-dork-report-for-august-24-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:33","slug":"the-dork-report-for-august-24-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-24-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for August 24, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You too can gradient gel-ify your brand identity with The Web 2.0 Logo Generator<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Unofficial Apple Weblog airs its grievances about .Mac<\/a>, but makes nice by offering some constructive criticism<\/a>. I don’t disagree with any of this, but I’m utterly and totally married to my bookmark, calendar, and address book synchronization, so I’m not bailing any time soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn who’s probably not dead in the new Lost<\/em> poster [no longer online: p099.ezboard.com\/fjjboardfrm41.showMessage?topicID=14351.topic]. (guest submission from Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film reviews in four words or less: Snakes on a Plane<\/em><\/a>, 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em><\/a>, Citizen Kane<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet another stunning example of the catastrophic failure of the Iraq invasion: General Tommy Franks was issuing orders to his troops in Powerpoint presentations<\/a> (no, really). (spotted on Design Observer<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You too can gradient gel-ify your brand identity with The Web 2.0 Logo Generator: The Unofficial Apple Weblog airs its grievances about .Mac, but makes nice by offering some constructive criticism. I don’t disagree with any of this, but I’m utterly and totally married to my bookmark, calendar, and address book synchronization, so I’m not […]<\/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-381","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-69","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":229,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-1-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":381,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for June 1, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Fight Club's narrative web illustrated by Lego. 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