Dowbrigade

Straight from Iraq
This guy seems to be the real deal - a US Army intelligence
officer currently running an Iraqi EPW camp north of Bagdad, who whips
out his
[...]

An infant born with four legs, three hands, three kidneys and an
abnormal liver to a rural Zambian woman two weeks ago, is pictured in
Lusaka, July 2, 2003.
They said the baby, whose is yet to be named, would be [...]

Finally, a Boston Globe column with some balls. Since Barnicle got busted Globe prose has gone milquetoast. But not this…
“IN HIS DRIVE-BY shootings of black progress, Clarence Thomas speeds away, spitting at his victims and spewing quotations that stun the onlookers as much as the original attack. No other thug commits black-on-black crime [...]

Dating back at least to Middle Horizon times (600-1000 AD),
Andean cultures have kept records using knotted cords of cotton
or
alpaca
wool. These are called khipus in Quechua. Unfortunately, due to their organic
[...]

Very nice VR Quicktime full-screen panorama by photographer
Antonio Moya, of a masterwork by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963),
one of the most famous French artists from the last century.
from
BoingBoing

dB (as in decibel) drag
racing is an obscure but growing international "sport" in which
competitors go head-to-head for two or three seconds at a time, hence
the name drag racing, to establish
[...]

Miracles
You’ll See in the Next 50 Years
BY WALDEMAR KAEMPFFERT
Reprint of article from Feb. 1950
What will the world be like in A.D. 2000? You can read
the [...]

“Canadians can’t quite believe it: Suddenly, we’re interesting.
After months of making the news only with our various communicable diseases–SARS, mad cow and West Nile–we’re now getting world famous for our cutting-edge laws on gay marriage and legalized drugs. The Bush conservatives are repulsed by our depravity. My friends in New York and San Francisco have [...]