{"id":504,"date":"2006-11-16T20:43:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/the-dork-report-for-november-16-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:20","slug":"the-dork-report-for-november-16-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-16-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for November 16, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic, not only a brilliant satirist, is also a shrewd collaborator: check out his new video with Jib Jab: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Do I Creep You Out<\/span> (no longer online: JibJab.com\/weird_al\/do_i_creep_you_out).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tasks a Star Wars virgin<\/span> (no longer online: ew.com\/ew\/report\/0,6115,1558880_1_0_,00.html) to watch all six <em>Star Wars<\/em> films in chronological order (as opposed to order of release), and is shocked to learn it doesn&#8217;t work. Well, duh. I assumed it was obvious to all that the correct order to watch them would be IV \u00bb V \u00bb VI \u00bb I \u00bb II \u00bb III. A prequel is not necesssarily intended to be viewed first. Or to put it another way, prequel is like one big-ass flashback, meant to illuminate what you&#8217;ve already seen, but whose significance isn&#8217;t palpable if seen first. (guest submission from Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blender<\/em>&#8216;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">most disatrous albums<\/span> (link no longer online). Proud to say I only own one of them, Moby&#8217;s <em>Animal Rights<\/em>. (guest submission from Andrea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abandoned-places.com\">Abandoned Places<\/a>. (guest submission from Dave)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piece together <a href=\"https:\/\/brickshelf.com\/cgi-bin\/gallery.cgi?f=93340\">LEGO minifig bands<\/a>. Hilariously accurate, especially the incarnations of U2 from <a href=\"https:\/\/brickshelf.com\/cgi-bin\/gallery.cgi?i=1284335\">1987<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brickshelf.com\/cgi-bin\/gallery.cgi?i=1284336\">2000<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brickshelf.com\/cgi-bin\/gallery.cgi?i=1284337\">2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Weird Al&#8221; Yankovic, not only a brilliant satirist, is also a shrewd collaborator: check out his new video with Jib Jab: Do I Creep You Out (no longer online: JibJab.com\/weird_al\/do_i_creep_you_out). Entertainment Weekly tasks a Star Wars virgin (no longer online: ew.com\/ew\/report\/0,6115,1558880_1_0_,00.html) to watch all six Star Wars films in chronological order (as opposed to order [&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-504","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-88","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":375,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-august-14-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":504,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for August 14, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"August 14, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A playable Lego guitar (no longer online: geekasaurus.com\/clint\/gallery\/legoguitar). Yay, fun! Lego Star Wars II! (no longer online: lucasarts.com\/games\/legostarwarsii) Sleepy Kitties II and III. (guest submission from Meowzzzzz... 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