Monthly Archives: December 2003

‘Now you can see my body. I hope you’ll find me tasty.’ – What Armin claims Siemens microchip engineer Bernd-Juergen Brandes (above) told him after undressing in front of him at their initial meeting. from the Straights Times   BERLIN … Continue reading →

A 425-million-year-old fossil found in Herefordshire, England, may be the oldest record of an animal that is unarguably male. Scientists report Friday in the journal Science that the tiny crustacean, only two-tenths of an inch long, had an unmistakable penis. … Continue reading →

Plans to build an 80ft statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character in his Austrian home town have been resurrected. The steel abstract design was shelved earlier this year after Schwarzenegger said he would rather see the money going to charity. … Continue reading →

What is it lately with animal acts? First Roy in Las Vegas, and now Umar in Russia. It seems trained animals are not as well-behaved as they once were…. MOSCOW (Dec. 4) A performing bear mauled two Moscow theatre workers … Continue reading →

China is Hong Kong’s top source of snakes, shipping about 67,000 every year, and traders are having to defrost last year’s leftovers and import snakes from Southeast Asia at prices up to 20 percent higher from the Boston Globe HONG … Continue reading →

Victim of cannibal agreed to be eaten To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect neighbour. He mowed their lawn, repaired their car and even invited them round for dinner. Other residents in the small German town of … Continue reading →

Having trouble deciding who to vote for? Don’t fret, just answer these 17 simple questions and SelectSmart’s 2004 American Presidential Candidate Selector will dial you in to the correct choice! How scientific! If its on the internet, it must be … Continue reading →

Mike Walsh points to this article on Netscape News about the benefits of regular sex. Or irregular sex, for that matter. Although psuedo-scientific rumination on reasons sex is good is perhaps the epitomy of rationalization, some of the reasons are … Continue reading →

We all know that big-time college football has long ago lost any credibility as amateur sport or academic adjunct, or in fact as anything but a wholly owned subsidiary and source of human raw material for Football, Inc. Befitting its … Continue reading →

A Nativity sculpture made out of 42 tons of ice has gone on show in the European Culture Capital 2003. The sculpture was created on Friday under the direction of Austrian artist Gert Hodl in what has become an Advent … Continue reading →

The Harvard Uber-Blogger, Philip Greenspan, has really out-done himself. Of course, he is always the Numero Uno on the Berkman Hit List, and deservedly so, but today he is in the process of ringing up a record – 17,783 so … Continue reading →

Regular readers may have noticed a decline in the frequency and profundity of the posts to the Dowbrigade. This is due to the didactic and administrative demands of the end of the Fall Semester. The exams, evaluations, essay rewrites, project … Continue reading →