Archive for August, 2004

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Incredible Display of Bad Taste

A
toy being sold from Florida to Boston depicts an airliner crashing into
twin towers as the trophy for a candy cache. We are trying to track down
any unrecalled packages, as these will [...]

Ebola Threatens Gorillas, Too

August 27, 2004 (Torino, Italy) - Scientists fear that
emerging evidence may suggest a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, which,
in addition to threatening
human lives, would threaten tens of thousands of great apes "in this case
gorillas [...]

The Fog Lifts, Ever So Briefly

This sort of thing is obviously why the military
and the administration are resisting public hearings or trials for these
guys…
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba - A Yemeni prisoner confessed to being
a member of Al [...]

A Walk in the Park, a Visit to the Zoo

The
Dowbrigade and Norma Yvonne are thinking of driving down to NYC on Sunday
to attend/cover the massive protest planned for the day before the opening
of the RNC. Scheduled for the 41st anniversary [...]

Remember Honestlawyers.com?

We are currently working on a virtual import project with our
foreign business students, in which they choose a product from their
home market they think would sell well in Boston, and via the internet go
[...]

Welcome to America

It was not without some trepidation that the Dowbrigade
waited in the bowels of Logan Airport for the arrival of AA flight 286
from San Jose, California. Aboard, at least in theory, were 12 Japanese
[...]

PARIS HILTON CALLS FOR END TO SWIFT BOAT FLAP

Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton today called for an end to the controversy over Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam War service, warning that the continuing swift boat flap was distracting attention away from her.
from the Borowitz Report

Better Back Up, Just in Case

Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26,
a Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information Agency Novosti,
Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs said information on this terrorist
[...]

No Bull on Genetic Modification

Truth
eventually eclipses fiction, even legendary folk tales like the stories
of Babe, Paul Bunyons giant blue ox……
For a glimpse of what post-human athletes may look like
beginning in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics, [...]

A Case of Mistaken Identity

Vs.
Mystery solved.  The Olympic
sport we chanced across
the other day and couldn’t identify was none other than the ever-popular
HANDBALL!! Obviously, the reason we had never seen it before is that
[...]

Surfing IS an Olympic Sport

What
a shame we have to work during the Olympics. Missing so many events is
making us think seriously for the first time
about getting a TiVo.  On the other hand, by flipping through [...]

Big Wind Narrowly Misses Dowbrigade

One
of our favorite theories of the inevitability of Blogging holds that
eventually, whenever something noteworthy or memorable happens in the
world there will be a blogger nearby to witness and record. Well, [...]


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