Dowbrigade

Every
major Hollywood blockbuster has to have its attendant merchandising line.
  People today can’t be content to just go to a movie one or twice
or fifteen times. They have to buy the seatshirt, [...]

Dave, over on Dave
Winer’s Test Site, is looking for a
good quality microphone to use with his PC. What a coincidence! The Dowbrigade
has been looking for a microphone as well, [...]

There seems to be a certain unfounded optimism
that something intrinsic in the nature of blogs or the internet guarantees
that they will be a force for openness and reform in the political
[...]

Tomorrow’s
New York Times has an interesting article about how the more ‘liberal’
sensibilities on the Web allow campaigns,
including both Bush and Kerry, to get away with [...]

This story has so many hooks the Dowbrigade doesn’t
know which one to grab. The killer was a NATO officer named after our
internet
browser (a killer ap?). The murder [...]

Robotics
Institute student Mark Michalowski, right, looks over the kiosk where "Valerie",
the new Roboceptionist at Carnegie Mellon University operates from
before the indroduction of the school’s latest [...]

In what legal experts described as a novel strategy,
Michele Scimeca is citing federal racketeering laws like the one that
jailed mob boss John Gotti to countersue record labels that accused her
in [...]

We dated her for awhile, put we couldn’t get past the tails….

from Worth 1000

Adam
Curry is heading back to Holland today after a hectic but unforgettable
week in Iraq. As a guest of the Dutch military, he spent most of his
time on bases, but did have [...]

Our friends and fellow bloggers tell us we should be thankful
that the Dowbrigade News receives so few comments after our postings.
Our all-time high water mark was six comments, on a posting of questionable
[...]

 
Hiawatha Bray reviews the success of the national do-not-call registry
and the Can Spam Act. While 74% of the folks who got on the no telemarketing
list report a decrease in unsolicited sales calls, 71% say the deluge
[...]