{"id":525,"date":"2006-12-07T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T05:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/the-dork-report-for-december-7-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:20","slug":"the-dork-report-for-december-7-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-december-7-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for December 7, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At last, the IconFactory QuickPix 2006<\/a>! (spotted on Daring Fireball<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the bastiches wot done ripped off Panic<\/a>. Not just their graphics, but even a photo of their office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cleaning up my bookmarks… Here’s one I saved a while ago but can’t remember if I posted: a working Lego Harpsicord<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The indispensible guide to Bad Movies<\/a>. Everything from MST3K<\/a> classic Manos The Hands of Fate<\/em><\/a> (which translates as, of course, Hands The Hands of Fate<\/em>) to Peter Jackson’s early classic Meet the Feebles<\/em><\/a>. And remember, don’t Hassle the Hoff… in space<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh no! Movie Place has passed on!<\/a> I wouldn’t go as far as Hodg-man: “IT WAS ARGUABLY the reason I moved into my first apartment on 105th Street. OK: I WILL CEASE TO ARGUE–it was THE reason” but I would say that it was a strong motivation to stay in Morningside Heights for several years after finishing school. And it’s also partly true to say that one reason I was more willing to eventually move out was the advent of Netflix. Spotted on 43Folders<\/span> (no longer online: 43folders.com\/2006\/12\/06\/43f-links-for-wednesday-december-6th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last, the IconFactory QuickPix 2006! (spotted on Daring Fireball) All the bastiches wot done ripped off Panic. Not just their graphics, but even a photo of their office. Cleaning up my bookmarks… Here’s one I saved a while ago but can’t remember if I posted: a working Lego Harpsicord. The indispensible guide to Bad […]<\/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-525","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-8t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-november-9-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":525,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for November 9, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"November 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Jasper Hauser on designing Disco's icon. 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