Dowbrigade

WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - A drug that seems to drive female rats mad for sex may offer
the first real scientific aphrodisiac for women, U.S. and Canadian researchers
said on Monday.
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Just lost another long post, the third one in a row over the last week.  Blame the lousy computers, wacky keyboards, exhaustion and perhaps a subconscious reluctance to enmesh ouself once again in the Blogging mindset.
The gist was that we are on the road again, heading back to the wired world, but it seems to […]

Despite the eye-opening reboot that leaving the belly of the beast for a while inevitably provides, the sweet assurance that some places will never change their essence, at least during our short lifetimes, and will always offer a haven from the madness of expansion capitalism, and inspite of the ingrained allure of life on the […]

As often seems to happen, the Dowbrigade has gotten himself embroiled in a hot third-world political situation.  After dodging strikes and marches in Ecuador, we now find ourself in the middle of one of the longest running and most vicious labor disputes in South American history - between the Federal Peruvian government and the SUTEP - […]

Father´s Day 2004 finds the Dowbrigade once again seated in a seamy cyber-dive gazing out the open door at the sun-drenched central Plaza in the small andean town of Carhuaz, alongside the Rio Santa in the scenic Callejon de Huaylas, aka the “Switzerland of Peru”.
For the first time in several years we are together with […]

Well, the day has finally arrived. One year since our first uncertain post, a year in which we have found our voice, made new friends and a few enemies (notably via the Moose story) and lost a few of our marbles and quite a bit of hair.
Whether it is a portent or a result of […]

The following story, out of Tokio, which appeared yesterday in El Commercio of Lima, Peru (purchased on a birthday buying expedition to the highland city of Huaraz) piqued our curisiosity as it combines cleverness and stupidity, international crime, a clash of cultures and a simple twist of fate.
Peruvian Robber had an Enormous Stash in the […]

The origins of Democracy are steeped in the mead beer and wine of ancient Greece, and its modern appearance in England is equally associated with beer, ale and stout drinking and pub-centric political organizing.  From the French toasting their breifly glorious and gloriously breif revolution to our Founding Fathers plotting sedition in Boston Bars, to […]

Down in town, checking out another of the new cybers, which have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain since the last time we were in the town of Carhuaz, Peru a year and a half ago. Unlike Banos, Ecuador, which we have visited at least once a year since we discovered it, 32 years ago, […]

We are posting today from the StarNet Internet outpost in the tiny town of Carhuaz, in the Andean valley known as the “Callejon de Huaylas”, in highland Peru. We are here to visit our sons, who are here because it is such a stunning display of natural and cultural beauty that 28 years ago we […]

The part of the Great Experiment concerned with whether it was possible
to continue to work as a webmaster from South America has been a series
of ups and downs.  This week, much more down than up.  As per
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In a monster
move towards video aggregation and independently produced video blogging,
TiVo is set to announce today a new service allowing users to download
video content from the Internet (hopefully including RSS enclosures)
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