Monthly Archives: November 2004
Fallujah Update
As we write brave American boys and girls are sweeping through the deadly, darkened streets of Fallujah, looking for nests of vipers, trying to avoid booby traps and ambushes. So far, they are executing their carefully conceived battle plans flawlessly, … Continue reading
Time for Something Completely Different
Appearantly a sun-bleached-blond write-in candidate is on the verge of winning the mayoralty of San Diego, the nation’s seventh largest city. Thisis the kind of candidate we need to start thinking about – completely outside of the parameters we have been … Continue reading
What Exactly is a Blog Posting?
Last week at the Thursday Night Berkman Blogger’s group, we were privileged to witness a series of three presentations, betas of soon-to-be-delivered papers from a conference on Personal Knowledge Management, which seems to be one step up from Personal Information … Continue reading
The Battle for Fallujah
"About 10,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers are massed on the outskirts of Fallujah awaiting the go-ahead from Allawi for a ground assault aimed at ridding the city 35 miles west of Baghdad of Iraqi and foreign insurgents, who are estimated … Continue reading
Rats or Refugees?
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada’s main immigration Web site has shot up six-fold as Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after President Bush’s election win this week. "When we looked at the … Continue reading
Read a Book, Get Better Head
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York officials were red-faced on Friday after they discovered that clothing ads on city buses that appeared to promote reading suggested a love of books could be rewarded with oral sex. The advertisements that ran … Continue reading
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
One year ago, the Dowbrigade proposed a virtual Miss Universe contest. Well, somebody was listening… Kaya (below) is ravishing. She has full lips, long lashes, and a slightly upturned nose. Her expression radiates confidence and power, and her smooth skin … Continue reading
$275 Million Overweight Charge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. airlines spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually in extra fuel costs to transport a heavier traveling public, researchers estimate. The 10-pound increase in the average weight of American adults in the 1990s means additional expenses … Continue reading
QOTD – A Network with an Attitude
Rumors of Hunter Thompson’s decline as a political commentator were obviously premature…. “Their army is how much bigger than mine? Three percent? Well shucks, Bubba. Now is the time to establish a network and an attitude. You make friends in … Continue reading
New Stamps Bring Lighter Look
from the Boston Globe WASHINGTON — It isn’t easy being green. It isn’t easy getting on a US postage stamp either, but Kermit the Frog will manage it next year, along with his Muppet friends. New … Continue reading
Live By the Juice, Die By the Juice
FORT WORTH – A man suspected of trying to illegally hook up electrical service died after police shocked him with a stun gun when he was found hiding at an apartment complex, authorities said. Robert Guerrero, 21, was pronounced dead … Continue reading
NJ Votes Kerry – Jet Sent from DC Attacks NJ School
Is this a sign of things to come? Sectarian violence between the Red and Blue states? Was this really an accident? What kind of demented fanatics attack an elementary school? A D.C. Air National Guard fighter jet based at Andrews … Continue reading