Monthly Archives: February 2004

  Since the talking heads have made the dissection of the Dean Debacle practically a national pastime, we have learned that Dr. Dean was betrayed and undone by a) Himself b) The Democratic Party, c) The Media Mafia, and/or d) … Continue reading →

  The Dowbrigade remembers attending a particularly ostentatious Bar Mitzvah in Brookline a few years back and seeing a life-size Torah molded entirely from Chopped Liver. Only Jews, we thought, would do something as gastronomically gauche as that.  Wrong again. … Continue reading →

  Macabre doesn’t begin to describe the work of German artist/anatomist Gunter von Hagens, who is turning human cadavers into artwork at the Von Hagens Plastination factory in Dalian, in northeast China. Although he does the actual body work in … Continue reading →

Every major Hollywood blockbuster has to have its attendant merchandising line.   People today can’t be content to just go to a movie one or twice or fifteen times. They have to buy the seatshirt, the juice glasses, the sheet … Continue reading →

Dave, over on Dave Winer’s Test Site, is looking for a good quality microphone to use with his PC. What a coincidence! The Dowbrigade has been looking for a microphone as well, but we had something a little different in … Continue reading →

There seems to be a certain unfounded optimism that something intrinsic in the nature of blogs or the internet guarantees that they will be a force for openness and reform in the political system. We wish we could share in … Continue reading →

Tomorrow’s New York Times has an interesting article about how the more ‘liberal’ sensibilities on the Web allow campaigns, including both Bush and Kerry, to get away with more vicious attack ads without facing damaging political backlast which has resulted … Continue reading →

This story has so many hooks the Dowbrigade doesn’t know which one to grab. The killer was a NATO officer named after our internet browser (a killer ap?). The murder took place in an ESL classroom, whose teacher obviously missed … Continue reading →

Robotics Institute student Mark Michalowski, right, looks over the kiosk where "Valerie", the new Roboceptionist at Carnegie Mellon University operates from before the indroduction of the school’s latest foray into interactive robots on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 in Pittsburgh. Students … Continue reading →

In what legal experts described as a novel strategy, Michele Scimeca is citing federal racketeering laws like the one that jailed mob boss John Gotti to countersue record labels that accused her in December of sharing some 1,400 copyrighted songs … Continue reading →

We dated her for awhile, put we couldn’t get past the tails…. from Worth 1000

Adam Curry is heading back to Holland today after a hectic but unforgettable week in Iraq. As a guest of the Dutch military, he spent most of his time on bases, but did have several opportunities to visit towns and … Continue reading →