Dowbrigade

SHANGHAI, Wednesday, June 8 – In its latest measure to tighten policing
of the Internet, China has begun requiring bloggers and owners of personal
Web sites to register with the government or be forced offline.
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Nine years ago, the Navy set out to build a new guided
missile for its 21st-century ships. Fiascoes followed. In a test firing,
the missile melted its on-board guidance system. "Incredibly," an
Army review [...]

As
regular readers will acknowledge, the Dowbrigade is no prude. In a
related vein,
it is difficult to gross us out. Nevertheless, it is possible, as we [...]