Monthly Archives: April 2004

An 81-year-old pensioner from Santiago has escaped serious injury after managing to park his car on two levels of a multi-storey car park at the same time. The man, who doesn’t want to be named, told Chile’s Las Ultimas Noticias … Continue reading →

A day in the life of the Dowbrigade doesn’t seem complete unless it starts with a perusal of the local newspaper, be it the Boston Globe, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or, at present, The Mercurio of Manta, Ecuador. … Continue reading →

During the final session at BloggerCon I, in October of last year, the Dowbrigade, still a blogging neophyte at that point and incredibly intimidated by the famous names and aggregated flow in attendance, made his hesitant first and only intervention … Continue reading →

One of the movies we are most pleased to have captured on our iBook for the Great Experiment is the Quentin Tarrentino blood fest, Kill Bill part 1.  We are amazed and impressed with the filmmaking art which has taken … Continue reading →

Once again, South Korea has provided a valuable lesson in the changing tides of time and the role of digital democracy in a wired society.  As reported in this space, two years ago South Korea elected a virtual unknown, Roh … Continue reading →

It was eerily appropriate that the very first question in President Bush’s press conference the other night was about the Iraq-Vietnam analogy. Bush stared straight into the camera and declared, of course, that there was no similarity at all between … Continue reading →

Erectile dysfunction advertising has changed considerably since a somber Bob Dole explained the medical condition in a 1999 ad paid for by Pfizer Inc. (PFE), maker of market leader Viagra. Levitra’s initial ads, which began last fall, were criticized by … Continue reading →

Don’t you just hate it when well-intentioned attempts to automate clever little features of your tools make it impossible to configure them the way you want? Once the Dowbrigade made the move to the Ecuadorian ISP he will be using … Continue reading →

MADISON, Wis. — There is more to beauty than meets the stranger’s eye, according to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical traits on people’s perception of physical attractiveness. The results, which show that people perceive physical appeal … Continue reading →

Police in Germany had a hard time returning a little boy to his family after he told them his name was "Mummy’s boy". The boy, aged two, was seen trying to cross a street on his own at a red … Continue reading →

Apparently the markets are all in an uproar over the prospect that inflation is about to rear its ugly head. All we can say is, it’s about time. It seems clear to the Dowbrigade, from an intuitive layman’s point of … Continue reading →

In the run-up to the Sure-to-be-Fabulous BloggerCon II, our thoughts and best wishes are with Dave Winer and his merry band of Berkman Bloggers. The Dowbrigade wishes we could be present in body as well as in spirit, and will … Continue reading →