Dowbrigade

An 81-year-old pensioner from Santiago has escaped serious
injury after managing to park his car on two levels of a multi-storey
car park at the same time.
The man, who doesn’t want to be named, told Chile’s Las Ultimas Noticias
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A day in the life of the Dowbrigade doesn’t seem
complete unless it starts with a perusal of the local newspaper, be
it the Boston Globe, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or, at present,
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During the final session at BloggerCon I, in October of last year,
the Dowbrigade, still a blogging neophyte at that point and incredibly
intimidated by the famous names and aggregated flow in attendance, made
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One
of the movies we are most pleased to have captured on our iBook for the
Great Experiment is the Quentin Tarrentino blood fest, Kill Bill part
1.  We are amazed and impressed with [...]

Once again, South Korea has provided a valuable lesson in the changing
tides of time and the role of digital democracy in a wired society.  As
reported in this space, two years ago South Korea elected a virtual unknown,
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It was
eerily appropriate that the very first question in President Bush’s press
conference the other night was about the Iraq-Vietnam analogy.
Bush stared straight into the camera and declared, of course, that there
was [...]

Erectile dysfunction advertising has changed considerably
since a somber Bob Dole explained the medical condition in a 1999 ad
paid for by Pfizer Inc. (PFE), maker of market leader Viagra.
Levitra’s initial ads, which began last fall, were criticized by some [...]

Don’t you just hate it when well-intentioned attempts to automate clever
little features of your tools make it impossible to configure them the
way you want? Once the Dowbrigade made the move to the Ecuadorian
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MADISON,
Wis. — There is more to beauty than meets the stranger’s eye, according
to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical
traits on people’s perception of physical attractiveness.
The results, which show [...]

Police in Germany
had a hard time returning a little boy to his family after he told them
his name was "Mummy’s boy".
The boy, aged two, was seen trying to cross a street on his [...]

Apparently the markets are all in an uproar over the prospect that
inflation is about to rear its ugly head. All we can say is, it’s about
time. It seems clear to the Dowbrigade, from an intuitive layman’s point
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In the run-up to the Sure-to-be-Fabulous BloggerCon
II, our thoughts
and best wishes are with Dave Winer and his merry band of Berkman Bloggers.
The Dowbrigade wishes we could be present in [...]