Monthly Archives: April 2005

Chili Con Carne

Posted on April 19, 2005 by glasscastle

This black and white photo released by the Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health, in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, March 24, 2005 shows a portion of a human finger that a woman says she found while eating a bowl … Continue reading →

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Coulter Claims Liberal Conspiracy on Legs

Posted on April 18, 2005 by glasscastle

"Why can’t they just photograph conservatives straight?!" blasted this week’s TIME magazine covergirl Ann Coulter. The bestselling author and controversialist slammed magazine editors for fronting a photo of her, she claims, which is so distorted "my own mother would not … Continue reading →

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Internal Combustion?

Posted on April 18, 2005 by glasscastle

Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003. The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on … Continue reading →

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What’s In a Name?

Posted on April 18, 2005 by glasscastle

Who makes these names up? We are convinced there is a windowless office somewhere, in Heaven or Hell if not on this Earth, where a squad of poor bastards is charged with making up all the names we read in … Continue reading →

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Comic of the Day – Space View

Posted on April 18, 2005 by glasscastle

As mentioned a couple of days ago, this is tres cool. Also cool is that strategic area of Washington D.C. and most military facilities are rendered unviewable by this very smart and powerful service. Yesterday, for example, Norma Yvonne and … Continue reading →

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Warring Hatians Heading for Cape Cod

Posted on April 17, 2005 by glasscastle

A child stands near a United Nations armored personnel carrier, manned by Peruvian peacekeepers, at a check point in Cite Soleil, April 16, 2005. U.N. Security Council members said they would look favorably on Haiti’s request for more peacekeeping police … Continue reading →

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Sat. Morning Musings on The Perfect Tomato

Posted on April 16, 2005 by glasscastle

There are many differences one notices when one lives an active life between two continents, two cultures. Some are obvious; a different language, different food, a different style of architecture, different racial and facial features in the people you pass … Continue reading →

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Does Google Suck at RSS?

Posted on April 15, 2005 by glasscastle

Dave doesn’t like the way Google handles RSS, compared to Yahoo and MSN. That may be true, but we remain muy impresionado with the new satelite photo map service. You can see your own house! (go to http://maps.google.com/ and click … Continue reading →

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Reaching the Secret Settings in Firefox

Posted on April 15, 2005 by glasscastle

How many of the rest of you Firefox users never knew about all of the ‘secret’ configurable controls you can access via the about:config URL? There’s all sorts of cool stuff you can do, just by typing about:config in the … Continue reading →

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Supergeeks – Tiger OS Developer Trading Cards

Posted on April 15, 2005 by glasscastle

Collect the Entire Set from CodeMonkeys

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Dowbrigade.com Returns

Posted on April 15, 2005 by glasscastle

After a lapse of over two months, one it took me to become aware of the problem and another it took me to do something about it, our own personal domain, dowbrigade.com, is back up and running. As well as … Continue reading →

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Gray Lady Stalls, Globe Takes a Seat

Posted on April 15, 2005 by glasscastle

NEW YORK Many in the industry are dreading the upcoming Fas-Fax report, and early numbers are slowly starting to emerge. Today came word that The Boston Globe is expecting steep overall circulation declines for the six-month period ending March 2005 … Continue reading →

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