Dowbrigade

UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts’ web-based learning
division, today announced that online education program revenues and
enrollments grew 40 percent and 33 percent, respectively, in 2003.
Revenues from the combined online programs at the [...]

Boy George musical savaged in NY

The Boy George musical Taboo, backed by the former chat show host Rosie
O’Donnell, has opened to poor reviews in the US.
The Broadway version, which tells the story [...]

Creating
a computer program that mimics Jackson Pollock’s painting technique may
sound like a daunting task, but it is just the kind of challenge that
Daniel Shiffman enjoys. [...]

This is a real problem for teachers everywhere these days.  Moreso,
I would imagine, in large impersonal classes where the insructor doesn’t
have time to get to know the students and their writing individually. In
my classes, we have seen [...]

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.”
Mark Twain via Adam Curry

ISTANBUL, Nov. 15 — Two truck bombs exploded Saturday
morning outside a pair of synagogues crowded with families celebrating
bar mitzvahs,
killing at least 20 people [...]

A Fijian warrior holds a traditional war axe during a ceremony of
apology for British missionary Rev. Thomas Baker, who was eaten in 1867,
in Nabutautau, Fiji, Thursday, Nov 13, 2003. Descendants of Rev Baker attended
[...]

The Dowbrigade learned early in this game that you can’t please
all of the people all of the time.  In one of my very first blog
postings, I reported, in what I thought was a somber and equitable manner,
[...]