Dowbrigade

Classic album covers recreated in Lego blocks. Most of these are past my
time, but some I recognize.
Yet more evidence that some bloggers have more time on their hands than is good
for them.
from
Minifig via Boing Boing

LONDON - A television station said Friday it had shelved a reality show that
set up six male contestants with what appeared to be a gorgeous woman but
was actually a transsexual.
The program, "Find Me A Man," challenged the contestants to woo a leggy
South [...]

Venerable Harvard Stadium, architecturally renowned as the first building
in the world to utilize the then-revolutionary but now ubiquitous
construction technique known as "reinforced concrete", is celebrating
[...]

Garry ‘Stretch’ Turner was hoping to clip more than 153 pegs to his face at the
launch of the 2004 Guinness Book of Records in Manchester. But his effort
at the city’s Arndale Centre failed when he managed to clip on only 150
[...]

“John Silber is the Fidel Castro of American Higher Education”
- The Dowbrigade

An interesting article from the New York Times about the tendency in
Japan to use or not to use honorific titles. This goes to the point
of one of my areas of special interest - the relationship between language
and culture, in this case business culture.
While dropping [...]

Fishermen work on a boat filled with freshly caught dolphins while a
diver prepares to submerge in the blood-filled water near the fishing
town of Taiji in Wakayama Prefecutre in this photo taken Friday, Oct.
[...]

The Simpsons
creator Matt Groening says Fox News threatened legal action after an
episode of the cartoon poked fun at the channel.
The episode, on Fox Entertainment, featured a "Fox News Crawl" at
the [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - All those e-mails — junk or otherwise — are
adding up.
In 2002, people around the globe created enough new information to fill
500,000 U.S. Libraries of Congress, according [...]

The Library of Congress created on Tuesday four narrow exemptions to a controversial digital-piracy statute but faces criticism from free-speech activists, who had hoped for more exceptions.
As part of a regular process of reviewing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, regulators created four new instances in which it is legal to crack digital copyright [...]

Lying
on my back on a starry night, counting the uncountable, it seems
as though mankind’s noble aspiration to migrate out of the gravity well
is bound to succeed, allowing us to assume our [...]

Unlike yesterday’s educational diagram, this is an actual photo, from NASA, of the solar flare which is scheduled to reach earth any minute now. While it only takes about 6 minutes for light to get to Earth from the sun, this electromagnetic radiations seems to take a couple of days, which is how long [...]