{"id":499,"date":"2006-11-05T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/05\/the-dork-report-for-november-5-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:20","slug":"the-dork-report-for-november-5-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-5-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for November 5, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>The Telegraph<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080419154418\/http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk:80\/ukcorrespondents\/davidderbyshire\/oct06\/petergabrielinterview.htm\">interviews Peter Gabriel<\/a> on freedom from choice, Lithuanian rap music, and passing on the Genesis reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul Cornell goes boozing with his fellow <em>Doctor Who<\/em> writers on his blog, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">House of Awkwardness<\/span> (no longer online: paulcornell.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/night-out-with-writers-of-doctor-who.html).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2006\/nov\/02\/bbc.broadcasting\">interviews The Restoration Team<\/a>, miracle-workers regenerating vintage Doctor Who footage for DVD. Spotted on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kasterborous<\/span> (no longer online: kasterborous.com\/news.asp?id=818).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Brickwiki<\/span> (no longer online: brickiwiki.wetpaint.com), including narratives like <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;The Gruesome Tale of Dr Schlieffer&#8221;<\/span> (no longer online: brickiwiki.wetpaint.com\/page\/10_katmax&#8217;s+OCT-06) and massive projects like the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">LEGO aircraft carrier<\/span> (no longer online: ezprezzo.com\/crazypics\/lego_aircraft_carrier.html).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph interviews Peter Gabriel on freedom from choice, Lithuanian rap music, and passing on the Genesis reunion. 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). The Guardian interviews The Restoration Team, miracle-workers regenerating vintage Doctor Who footage for DVD. Spotted on [&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-499","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-83","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":424,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-26-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":499,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for September 26, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Greenpeace asks for a greener Apple [no longer online: greenpeace.org\/apple]. Although Greenpeace is most concerned with the noxious chemicals in devices Apple markets as disposable (aka planned obsolescence), Apple's product packaging has also long been an issue. 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[no longer online: have-you-seen-this-man.co.uk] As Doctor Who Season Two draws to a close, a pair of Who News (both spotted on Outpost Gallifrey): Who's the new Who Girl? Freema Agyeman is Martha Jones.The Radio Times pits the Cybermen vs. the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Dork Report&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Dork Report","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/category\/dork-report\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Dork Report","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":280,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-june-17-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":499,"position":4},"title":"The Dork Report for June 17, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"June 17, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Just as Apple is rumored to be launching yet another iPod generation (no longer online: appleinsider.com\/article.php?id=1818), Microsoft readies its iTunes Killer [no longer online: wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,71178-0.html]. 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