{"id":409,"date":"2006-09-06T05:45:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T12:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/06\/the-dork-report-for-september-6-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:33","slug":"the-dork-report-for-september-6-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-6-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for September 6, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">side-by-side comparison<\/span> (no longer online: starwars.com\/episode-v\/release\/video\/f20060901\/20060901_picview\/pictureviewer.html) of changes made to the original 1980 <em>Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> for the 2004 special edition. Honestly, it&#8217;s more fascinating than it sounds, even to non-dorks. Spotted on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C|Net News.com<\/span> (no longer online: news.com.com\/2061-11200_3-6112085.html)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And because it just isn&#8217;t The Dork Report without a flood of Apple obsession:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The latest <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150130203955\/http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2006\/09\/04\/apple-to-introduce-itunes-movie-store-new-imac-ipod-nano-and\/\">iPipeDream<\/a> list of goodies predicted for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061018014413\/http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\/article.php?id=2018\">Apple&#8217;s Sept. 12 media event<\/a>: faster &amp; bigger iMacs, overhauled iPod Nano, iTunes Movie Store, Airport Express with video, and that damn <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070409052032\/http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com:80\/article.php?id=2017\">iPhone<\/a> again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update! Apple sneaks out new-model <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/imac\/\">iMacs<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macmini\/\">Mac Minis<\/a> with little fanfare well before the Sept. 12 media event. Obviously, Steve Jobs et al. don&#8217;t consider these to be big-ticket items, only amping up the anticipation for surprises even more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100606090351\/http:\/\/theappleblog.com:80\/2006\/09\/03\/why-i-will-probably-not-renew-my-mac-account\/\">.Mac catches more flak<\/a>, this time from The Apple Blog. I totally agree on at least three points: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080514095315\/http:\/\/www.apple.com:80\/dotmac\/idisk.html\">iDisk<\/a> is useful but painfully slow, iWeb URLs are ridiculously long and impossible to remember, and the Berlin Wall between iWeb and Homepage sucks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A side-by-side comparison (no longer online: starwars.com\/episode-v\/release\/video\/f20060901\/20060901_picview\/pictureviewer.html) of changes made to the original 1980 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back for the 2004 special edition. Honestly, it&#8217;s more fascinating than it sounds, even to non-dorks. Spotted on C|Net News.com (no longer online: news.com.com\/2061-11200_3-6112085.html) And because it just isn&#8217;t The Dork Report without a flood of [&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-409","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-6B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":580,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-10-2007\/","url_meta":{"origin":409,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for January 10, 2007","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"January 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"How much do Lost fans not know? 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Keeping it brief: U2 3D (no longer online: news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20061031\/film_nm\/u2_dc_2). (guest submission from Andrea) A lost Stanley Kubrick treatment may see realization. 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Paul Cornell goes boozing with his fellow Doctor Who writers on his blog, the House of Awkwardness (no longer online: paulcornell.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/night-out-with-writers-of-doctor-who.html). 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