{"id":503,"date":"2006-11-13T20:42:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T03:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/the-dork-report-for-november-13-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:20","slug":"the-dork-report-for-november-13-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-13-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for November 13, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Download the new <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">avant-garde ringtones<\/span> (no longer online: www.techmundo.org\/?p=106) for the N8800 Sirocco Edition phone by Brian Eno and Ryuichi Sakamoto. (spotted on NerveNet.info)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110813012920\/http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pro\/profiles\/eno\/\">Brian Eno profiled on Apple.com<\/a> on the event of the release of the DVD-ROM <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.77millionpaintings.com\">77 Million Paintings<\/a><\/em>. Oddly, the &#8220;team used Macs almost exclusively,&#8221; but the vaunted &#8220;generative&#8221; aspect of the piece <em>does not work<\/em> on a Mac. (spotted on NerveNet.info)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the new avant-garde ringtones (no longer online: www.techmundo.org\/?p=106) for the N8800 Sirocco Edition phone by Brian Eno and Ryuichi Sakamoto. (spotted on NerveNet.info) Brian Eno profiled on Apple.com on the event of the release of the DVD-ROM 77 Million Paintings. Oddly, the &#8220;team used Macs almost exclusively,&#8221; but the vaunted &#8220;generative&#8221; aspect of the [&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-503","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-87","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-july-13-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":503,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for July 13, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"July 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A Geographical Study of Lost (warning: very large image download). 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