Dowbrigade

Casualties in Iraq continue to rise in a daily slow bleed sparking
twisted flashbacks of Vietnam three decades ago.

Five American solders were killed around dawn when two rockets fired
from a truck hit the U.S. base at Taji, [...]

Our esteemed cyber-vecino, Ion, has posted an extremely
interesting note on translation in general, and specifically a translation
into Spanish
of a work by one of his favorite poets, Derek Wolcott. This got us [...]

An extremely interesting
article in the New York Times examines the changing role of public libraries,
specifically their development into public Internet portals and access
points for digital information.

For the library, supplying patrons [...]

Alert
readers and followers of the Berkman Blogging Clique may have noticed
that currently both the Dowbrigade and MIT
Uber-Blogger Philip Greenspun are both in Ecuador, land of flowers
[...]

An
alarming email reached us yesterday from a friend an ex-colleague in
Brazil, alleging and alerting that the Brazilian congress was in the
process of debating a project that would have the eventual [...]

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Diego Armando Maradona, one of the greatest soccer players of all
time, lies unconscious in an exclusive Buenos Aires clinic, debating
between life and death. Outside, on the street, thousands of his faithful
[...]

An X-ray
showing a 17centimeter (6.7 inches) pair of surgical scissors in the
abdomen of 69-year-old Pat Skinner in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday,
April 20, 2004. Mrs Skinner had an operation at [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Researchers uncovered a serious flaw in the underlying
technology for nearly all Internet traffic, a discovery that led to an
urgent and secretive international effort to prevent global disruptions
of [...]

As reported in
this space, Ecuador, like many third world countries
experiencing vast and visible chasms between the lifestyles of their
richest and poorest
citizens, [...]

While we are not sure our paltry academic salary even qualifies us
as "Middle Class", and we are certainly not miserable these days of tennis
and beach combing on the pristine Pacific coast of Ecuador, we strongly
[...]

Wait a second – Democrats from the left are attacking Bush for his
blind, one-sided support of Israel, and his lack of sympathy for the
Arab side of the Middle East conflict.  So what is behind today’s
[...]