Dowbrigade

Ryan Overbey has a great review of
the “Passion” movie. We are trying to read a variety of reviews,
because this is one movie the Dowbrigade will never see.  Not for
religious reasons - but we get faint at the sight of blood.  We
didn’t make it through “Carrie” or “The Exorcist.”  Still we are
glad Ryan saw it and [...]

RSS is increasingly going mainstream. Any day we expect
to see WalMart start a steam with its latest markdowns and sales prices.
Today a
long, informative article [...]

The graphic below was forwarded to the Dowbrigade by the estimable Norma Yvonne. What is she trying to tell us? Our obtuseness in regards to the fairer sex is legendary, but we know there’s a message in there somewhere…

Thailand’s
entertainment industry is prepared for a blow as a new law comes into
effect to enforce midnight closing on bars and clubs.
The only exceptions will be a few zones in the capital, Bangkok, and some resorts,
where bars can open [...]

An explosion in numbers of a species of giant crab is
causing concern amongst environmentalists.
Millions of Kamchatka or Red King Crabs have already spread around 400
miles south from northern Norway.
The [...]

Last week the fearless leader of the Berkman Blogger’s,
Dave Winer, wanted to collect some starting point design criteria for
the next generation of Blogging software. Since Dave believes (and we
concur) that software [...]

Click on the Image when your Boss/Parent/Child/Partner
isn’t looking…..
both versions of the Birth of Venus from Worth1000.com

"Every citizen’s a reporter. Journalists aren’t some exotic species, they’re
everyone who seeks to take new developments, put them into writing, and share
them with others." … (Oh Yeon Ho)
For the past several days the Dowbrigade has been researching an upcoming
[...]

Antonin Scalia, the
Soprano’s favorite Supreme Court Justice, is in hot water again, and
once again it is his choice of hunting buddies that
got him there.  Just as the furor was starting to [...]

Besides
Catapults, another of the Dowbrigade’s adolescent fascinations was Ancient
Egypt. Today we tend to see Egypt as an interface
between European Enlightenment and Deepest, Darkest Africa and a sort
[...]

The story from Haiti gets stranger and stranger. We still
haven’t located any authentic Haitian bloggers.  One interesting
lead was John Engle, an American who WAS blogging from Haiti until Tuesday,
when he and [...]