Monthly Archives: February 2004

Ryan Overbey has a great review of the “Passion” movie. We are trying to read a variety of reviews, because this is one movie the Dowbrigade will never see.  Not for religious reasons – but we get faint at the … Continue reading →

RSS is increasingly going mainstream. Any day we expect to see WalMart start a steam with its latest markdowns and sales prices. Today a long, informative article appeared on the Yahoo – Technology site.  Some exerpts: The technology behind them … Continue reading →

The graphic below was forwarded to the Dowbrigade by the estimable Norma Yvonne. What is she trying to tell us? Our obtuseness in regards to the fairer sex is legendary, but we know there’s a message in there somewhere…

Thailand’s entertainment industry is prepared for a blow as a new law comes into effect to enforce midnight closing on bars and clubs. The only exceptions will be a few zones in the capital, Bangkok, and some resorts, where bars … Continue reading →

An explosion in numbers of a species of giant crab is causing concern amongst environmentalists. Millions of Kamchatka or Red King Crabs have already spread around 400 miles south from northern Norway. The monster crustaceans, which were introduced to Europe … Continue reading →

Last week the fearless leader of the Berkman Blogger’s, Dave Winer, wanted to collect some starting point design criteria for the next generation of Blogging software. Since Dave believes (and we concur) that software should be designed from user needs … Continue reading →

Click on the Image when your Boss/Parent/Child/Partner isn’t looking….. both versions of the Birth of Venus from Worth1000.com

"Every citizen’s a reporter. Journalists aren’t some exotic species, they’re everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share them with others." … (Oh Yeon Ho) For the past several days the Dowbrigade has been researching … Continue reading →

Antonin Scalia, the Soprano’s favorite Supreme Court Justice, is in hot water again, and once again it is his choice of hunting buddies that got him there.  Just as the furor was starting to die down concerning his hunting trip … Continue reading →

Besides Catapults, another of the Dowbrigade’s adolescent fascinations was Ancient Egypt. Today we tend to see Egypt as an interface between European Enlightenment and Deepest, Darkest Africa and a sort of Political Sphinx sitting in the Middle of the Middle … Continue reading →

The story from Haiti gets stranger and stranger. We still haven’t located any authentic Haitian bloggers.  One interesting lead was John Engle, an American who WAS blogging from Haiti until Tuesday, when he and his family quite sensibly bailed. The … Continue reading →