Monthly Archives: February 2004

This jpg came to Norma Yvonne in email. Maybe we should hire a P.I.! If anyone knows who the original artist was we will give credit here…

This jpg came to Norma Yvonne in email. Maybe we should hire a P.I.! If anyone knows who the original artist was we will give credit here…

San Jose, Costa Rica – In one of the most ambitious marine conservation initiatives in the western hemisphere, four Latin American nations, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the United Nations Foundation (UN Foundation), Conservation International (CI) and others are consolidating … Continue reading →

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 Some class science projects get out of hand. That is certainly the case with Patrick Miller’s graduate course in do-it-yourself supercomputing at the University of San Francisco. On April 3, his students plan to assemble the … Continue reading →

  How to cheat at Apple Computer’s much-hyped Pepsi/iTunes music-giveaway promotion. For a chance at a free song from the music download service, buy a specially marked bottle of Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, or Sierra Mist. The underside of one out … Continue reading →

  Spotted leaving work this afternoon, crossing the BU Bridge on Memorial Drive along the Charles River in Cambridge, an extended family of geese. Bringing both drivers and joggers to a stunned halt, the gaggle of approximately 50 geese and … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation’s largest teachers union a "terrorist organization” during a private White House meeting with governors on Monday. Democratic and Republican governors confirmed Paige’s remarks about the National Education Association.`These were the … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade has never been afraid to admit he was wrong, which is a good thing as this happens so frequently that otherwise he would live in a constant state of fear. In our first posting on Blogging the Conventions … Continue reading →

from Worth1000.com

Time truly heals all wounds. For a looong time after that fateful October night, the Dowbrigade could not hear the word baseball or see the color red without suffering anew the deception and depression due to the disastrous denouement of … Continue reading →

It was back in 1975, and the 22-year-old Dowbrigade was in rough shape in a tight spot. Huddled on the floor of the glorified warehouse that served as the International Terminal of the airport in Cali, Columbia, stomach empty, nary … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade has written previously on the ongoing disappearance of indigenous cultures around the world. We realize it is not a question of somehow preserving these cultures like some kind of exotic insects frozen in amber.  Rather, we must search … Continue reading →