Monthly Archives: December 2003

Check out my new specialized aggregator, just for the blogs of the regular atttendees of the Berkman Thusday Night Blog Writers Crew. The list is NOT complete, and will be added to, so bookmark it if you are interested. The … Continue reading →

Saudi Arabia has banned the importation of female dolls and teddy bears, giving merchants three months to dispose of such stock, a state-guided newspaper reported Wednesday. Interior Minister Prince Nayef ordered the ban which was relayed around the country by … Continue reading →

Women face a whopping bill if they want to have a remote controlled instant orgasm device implanted. Orgasmatron Inventor Dr Stuart Meloy says he is confident women will fork out $17,000 for the procedure and device as millions of people … Continue reading →

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — After kidnapping and robbing Venezuelan model Veruska Ramirez, thieves asked the former Miss Universe finalist to sign her latest calendar as a memento, the model’s manager said Thursday. Ramirez, a former Miss Venezuela, was robbed of … Continue reading →

As a rule, the Dowbrigade doesn’t believe in coincidence. Since all things are connected, understanding the significance of any particular "coincidence" merely involves delving the hidden connection between the coincidentally related events. In addition, as regular readers know, the Dowbrigade … Continue reading →

IDG World Expo, the Framingham company that is moving its flagship MacWorld Expo convention from New York to Boston, said yesterday that it is doing the same with another of its technology industry trade shows in 2005. The East Coast … Continue 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

from Jack Hoya

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 →