Dowbrigade

Those who embark on the Way discover very early that
there are two distinct ways to approach the goal. There is the Path of
Contemplation, delving deeply into disassociation, aestheticism, abolition of ego and transcendance
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Somewhat surprisingly, our “Kitty Call” has generated more comments than any other Dowbrigade posting ever. We would like to sincerely thank all of the people who offered to help. Many of them were too far away, like in other states, but we firmly believe good intentions are rewarded somewhere, sometime. What goes around comes [...]

Inevitably,
the Great Experiment has yet to begin and we are already in crisis mode.

All three of our failsafe offers to care for our two lovely
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Passers by walking down Mt. Auburn St. this week were shocked to see
the venerable Harvard Lampoon Building bedecked in the corporate logo
of one of America’s favorite soft drinks. Officials of the Lampoon, reportedly
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As as the
cardboard boxes climb towards the ceilings and the passageways of our
apartment become more and more obstructed with suitcases, packing cases
and garbage [...]

LONDON
- A teenage boy pretended to perform a sex act on a head which had been
removed
from a body in a graveyard tomb, a witness told a court today.
The 15-year-old girl, [...]

Opera
Software is to include IBM’s embedded speech recognition technology ViaVoice
in the next version of its Web browser.
Web users will be able to navigate, request information and complete Web forms
by speaking, which should offer added convenience as more users [...]

Graphic by APAK

Yet another article explaining and extoling RSS, this one
by BoingBoing’s Cory Doctrow in the current issue of Wired
magazine.
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World
financial markets and intelligence agencies around the world are jittery
this week, although no one wants to come right out and say why, other
than the usual mealy mouthed mumbling about "security concerns".
However, [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Medicare will have to begin dipping
into its trust fund this year to keep up with expenditures and will go
broke by 2019 without changes in a program that is swelling because of
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They called it "the blob that ate the
Black Sea." And now the world’s most dangerous American biological
export — a jellyfish about the size of a man’s hand — has moved east
and [...]

The Dowbrigade, like the
Redhead, has long been a fan
of the daily crossword in the Boston
Globe.  Frankly, the main reason
for this is [...]