Daily Archives: December 17, 2003
Heavy Reading
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – A 133-pound tome about the Asian country of Bhutan that uses enough paper to cover a football field and a gallon of ink has been declared the world’s largest published book. Author Michael Hawley, a scientist … Continue reading
Will Blog For Food
This week the Dowbrigade received two highly unusual and much anticipated letters from the Personnel Office of the major metropolitan university where he has his "cover" job. The first brought the welcome news that after three years without any faculty … Continue reading
MIT Wright Up in Cambridge
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology paid tribute to the 100th anniversary of man’s first powered flight Wednesday by perching a replica of the Wright brothers’ plane 150 feet high, atop the school’s Great Dome.The rough replica, which appeared … Continue reading
Come Again, Matey
from Ananova Male students at a Canadian university are being offered a free two-week holiday in Australia in return for their sperm. An advert has been placed in the University of Calgary’s student newspaper by the Reproductive Medicine Clinic in … Continue reading
RIAA and Cambridge Cops Raid Central Sq Videos
Central Square, Cambridge has always represented the sleazy underbelly of the city, a dark doppleganger to brilliant Harvard Square just down Massachusetts Avenue, and awash in unwashed street people, cut-rate liquor stores, cheap bars, adult video stores, check-cashing outlets and … Continue reading
Self-Defeating Strategy Defined
Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Johnson was fined $10,000 by the NFL on Tuesday for holding up a sign directed at the league while celebrating a touchdown catch. After his 10-yard touchdown reception on the Bengals’ first possession of Sunday’s 41-38 … Continue reading