The Dork Report for October 3, 2006

U2 will release a definitive single-disc Best Of album in November, in addition to the two already released Best of 1980-1990 and Best of 1990-2000.
In preparation for the Lost season three premiere on Wednesday, I thought I would check out the end result of The Lost Experience, a summer-long alternate reality game I didn’t have time to follow. It seems the verdict is… meh.
Love any typeface enough to permanently fuse it to your skin? Body Type: Typographic Tattoos Etched in Flesh, a new exibition opening in New York. This fellow is fond of Univers Gothic.
Stylus Magazine’s Top 100 Music Videos of All Time. (spotted on Kottke.org) See also Pitchfork’s 100 Awesome Music Videos.
Know your terms: ‘font’ vs. ‘typeface’. (spotted on Kottke.org)
‘Boards highlights the latest in music videos, including Thom Yorke’s Harrowdown Hill, Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, and Chris Cunningham’s horrorshow for The Horror’s Sheena is a Parasite.
Bringing new meaning to the phrase "death by chocolate (milk)", Energy Field helps you find out exactly how much of your favorite poison it would take to kill you.
Hel-Fucking-Vetica! Wear it with pride!
Wow, the MyDreamApp contestant Hijack has really let rip with a stunning mock-up of the BBS-reading app’s full-screen mode. It certainly looks amazing, now if I could only see the point in the first place.

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