{"id":411,"date":"2006-09-12T05:52:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T12:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/12\/the-dork-report-for-september-12-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:32","slug":"the-dork-report-for-september-12-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-12-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for September 12, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Three cheers for Wikipedia defying China’s censors<\/a>! Boo hiss Google and Yahoo! (spotted on Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s always fun to read DVD Time’s reviews of Doctor Who<\/em> DVDs, written from the perspective of longtime fans. The upcoming The Mark of the Rani<\/a><\/em> DVD just reminds me how unexcited I am for the character’s return<\/a> in season three of the new series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4Flix<\/a> offers DRM-free digital movies to own (viewable on iPods or almost any computer). Granted, most of their feature films<\/a> are probably in the public domain and thus free, but $1.99 is probably worth the hassle to squeeze one onto your iPod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three cheers for Wikipedia defying China’s censors! Boo hiss Google and Yahoo! (spotted on Boing Boing) It’s always fun to read DVD Time’s reviews of Doctor Who DVDs, written from the perspective of longtime fans. The upcoming The Mark of the Rani DVD just reminds me how unexcited I am for the character’s return in […]<\/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-411","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-6D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-20-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":411,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for June 20, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Most. 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