{"id":423,"date":"2006-09-22T19:03:40","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T02:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/22\/the-dork-report-for-september-22-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:58","slug":"the-dork-report-for-september-22-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-22-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for September 22, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aww, look! The cutest li’l spaceships<\/a> you ever did see, from IconFactory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting is open for the MyDreamApp first elimination round [no longer online: mydreamapp.com\/vote]. You can vote for up to 18 projects, so the task is really better described as choosing which 6 will have to leave the island. The three I find most interesting and\/or useful to me are Blossom<\/a> (a virtual plant that feeds on productivity), Ground Control<\/a> (an at-a-glance view of well, everything going on in your Mac), and Whistler [no longer online: mydreamapp.com\/contestants\/view\/richardwhitelock] (bringing music making to the masses in an amazing new way, which if is technically possible, could be huge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of my favorite Doctor Who<\/em> stories are coming to DVD as parts of the Return of the Master [no longer online: bbc.co.uk\/doctorwho\/news\/cult\/news\/drwho\/2006\/09\/19\/36478.shtml] DVD box set: “The Keeper of Traken” and “Logopolis,” plus “Castrovalva.” The exhaustive repair work done by the Restoration Team [no longer online: purpleville.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk\/rtwebsite\/ReturnOfTheMaster.htm] should put George Lucas to shame for dumping sub-par copies of the original Star Wars<\/em> trilogy<\/a> out on DVD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO’s a good dog? Park Entertainment posts details and a poster<\/a> (WHERE’s the hyphen?) on their site about K-9 Adventures<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download Peter Gabriel’s Passion Outtakes<\/a><\/em>, a bootleg of unreleased recordings from the Passion<\/em> sessions and location recordings for Martin Scorcese’s The Last Temptation of Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gorillaz’ Phase Two – Slow Boat to Hades<\/a><\/em>, a DVD of videos and live performances from over the past two years, is coming out in Europe on October 30. Comes with a CD-ROM and an absurd amount of extras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aww, look! The cutest li’l spaceships you ever did see, from IconFactory. Voting is open for the MyDreamApp first elimination round [no longer online: mydreamapp.com\/vote]. You can vote for up to 18 projects, so the task is really better described as choosing which 6 will have to leave the island. 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