Dowbrigade

Remember when Google was brand new, and it seemed
like the ultimate, definitive search engine? Well, maybe Google is
just scratching
the surface. Maybe we are evolving towards a search [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) – Daredevil climber Alain Robert, known as the French Spiderman, defied stiff winds and rain to climb the world’s tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in the Taiwan capital Saturday.
Robert, dressed in a red rain jacket, tights and climbing shoes, shimmied up ropes hung down the sides of the 101-story, 1,667-foot office tower, reaching [...]

Hey, what’s up with Bit
Torrent? Although a little hit-and-miss, this technology and the various
front ends developed to make it easier to use, were the most reliable
[...]

I
often ask my father, the Dowbrigade, why he spends so much time blogging. It
seems like such a waste of time. Even if people are reading it, they
don’t
[...]

Putin Defends Yukos Deal as ‘Perfectly Normal’

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia today strongly defended the purchase
by a state-controlled company of the winner of Sunday’s auction for the largest
subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos.
"Today, the state, using absolutely legal, market mechanisms, is ensuring
its interests – I consider this perfectly [...]

Teenagers convicted last week of setting up a huge
network of compromised Windows PCs used it to gain an unfair advantage
in online gaming – not to send spam.
Detective Sergeant Steve Santorelli, of [...]

This morning, temporarily freed from the need to go
to the office, we were watching Fox news. We confess to a weakness for
Fox, as opposed to CNN, which has become our parents news network, and
hell, [...]

Jimi
Hendrix as a dentist removing Richard Nixons’s wisdom teeth? George C.
Scott as Jimi’s guidance counselor,"trying to prepare him for a viable
job market?"What twisted
[...]

The
US government is doing its best to drive the Dowbrigade back into international
exile. In addition
to dismaying us with Orwellian distortions of reality and scaring the
[...]

Some of our sources in the so-called intelligence
community are reporting horrible, twisted rumors of a Mossad/CIA plot
to plant a portable nuke in Houston and blame it on the Arabs. For the
record, [...]

Framistan
was a made up word that our father would slip into his explanations when
he didn’t know
the real jargon, or when he tired of our incessant variations on "How?"
[...]

Framistan
was a made up word that our father would slip into his explanations when
he didn’t know
the real jargon, or when he tired of our incessant variations on "How?"
[...]