Dowbrigade

Here is the proposed lineup for the four sessions of Blogging 101 Beginners Sessions (B.S.), to be given Day 2 of BloggerCon. Note that each of the invited bloggers uses different tools and platforms, so that atendees can chose the session that will help them the most. Warning! None of these guys has [...]

Mark McGowan, a 37-year-old
artist, arrives outside 10 Downing Street, in London Friday Sept. 12,
2003. McGowan protesting against student debt, completed the bizarre
stunt Friday of rolling a nut seven miles to Downing [...]

What should we think of a developing country that protected its young industries with high tariffs, stole technologies from established nations, used government aid to develop manufacturing and farming, limited foreign ownership of land, devalued its money in defiance of international wishes, imposed currency controls, and even allowed secessionist provinces to default on foreign debt? [...]

Over
the years, I have tried a variety of brushoff techniques with those pesky
telemarketers. For a long while I used five simple syllables: "No hablo
Ingles", but then the Spanish-language calls started coming [...]