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An Ultimately negative (but insightfully so) piece on Watchmen<\/em>, gleaned from its Wikipedia<\/a> entry: “Fighting Evil, Quoting Nietzsche: Did the comic book really need to grow up?<\/a>” by Tom Shone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quinn [no longer online: simonhaertel.de]: a really fun and really free Tetris<\/span> falling blocks game for the Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serve with Chips has loads of scoops<\/a> on the upcoming Transformers<\/em> feature film: Bumblebee is no longer a VW Beetle! Bummer! Megatron’s face looks like the Sarlaac Pit<\/a>, and Optimus Prime is seriously blinged out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Beatles are suing their label EMI [no longer available: businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D8JRJ1J82.htm] for nonpayment of $57 million in royalties, and are seeking the return of their master recordings. Of course, The Beatles are already bazillionaires, but on the other hand, being in that position gives them the ability to do the right thing: taking on a megacorporation to protect the rights of artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new SpiralFrog [no longer online: spiralfrog.com] online music service (backed by Universal and EMI) is just… crazy [no longer online: forbes.com\/digitalentertainment\/2006\/08\/29\/universal-spiralfrog-cx_cn_0829spiralfrog.html]. Who in their right mind would listen to 90 seconds<\/em> of advertising before each<\/em> song, and visit the site monthly? That’s worse than commercial radio. Free is not cheap enough. (note: the “90-second” statistic comes from BigO<\/a>, but I can’t find confirmation elsewhere)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supergroup Asia<\/a> prog-rockin’ it like it’s 1981, with an official website design like it’s 1996!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fonts for Flash [no longer online: fontsforflash.com] relaunches with a much narrower design. One little detail I don’t recall ever seeing in a Flash site before: visited link colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is seriously one of the dorkiest things I have ever seen: Miniature, self-contained, working<\/em> Atari game keychains [no longer online: thinkgeek.com\/geektoys\/cubegoodies\/80fc\/?cpg=36H].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to move to Norway. The Oslo Contemporary Art Museum dumped three tons<\/em> of LEGOs [no longer online: kutv.com\/topstories\/local_story_249202328.html] outdoors for people to build whatever they wanted for a future exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Ultimately negative (but insightfully so) piece on Watchmen, gleaned from its Wikipedia entry: “Fighting Evil, Quoting Nietzsche: Did the comic book really need to grow up?” by Tom Shone. Quinn [no longer online: simonhaertel.de]: a really fun and really free Tetris falling blocks game for the Mac. Serve with Chips has loads of scoops […]<\/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-410","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-6C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":493,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-october-23-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":410,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for October 23, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"October 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"MyDreamApp finals! 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