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Monthly Archives: July 2006
Boston Wi-Fi: When We Finish the Big Dig
Boston will tap a nonprofit corporation to blanket the city with “open access”; wireless Internet connections, under a plan to be unveiled today by Mayor Thomas M. Menino. The plan, which envisions raising $16 million to $20 million from local … Continue reading
Posted in Weird Science
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You Can Take The Lobster Out of the Pot…
At restaurants throughout the world, menus feature “Maine lobster," that sweet, succulent stuff that makes grown people don bibs and make a delicious mess. Like Idaho potatoes, Vermont maple syrup, and Florida oranges, Maine lobster has become a name brand. … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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World Strip Poker Championship
DUBLIN (Reuters) – It started as an April Fool’s joke but an Irish bookmaker’s proposal to hold the world’s biggest strip poker contest will become reality next month. Paddy Power floated the idea as a joke but it generated so … Continue reading
Posted in Sports
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Newscaster Freaked by Decapitation Hoax
The heat wave is getting to people all over the country. Check out this video of Fox Newscaster Jodi Applegate getting totally freaked out by a couple of guys demonstrating how easy it is to steal a bike with an … Continue reading
Posted in video
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Going for the Jugular
The heat wave is getting to people all over the country. Check out this video of Fox Newscaster Jodi Applegate getting totally freaked out by a couple of guys demonstrating how easy it is to steal a bike with an … Continue reading
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Single Servings
Unlucky in love? Stop beating yourself up — and think about moving. Maybe to Denver. After all, it is the best city for singles. For the third consecutive year, Denver-Boulder is the top metro area on our annual ranking of … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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Bare Breast Backlash
Blame it on our upbringing. Too much breast feeding, or not enough, but regular readers of the Dowbrigade may have noted a certain fixation with the human breast. In particular, we are deeply distressed by the discrepency in public acceptance … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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India Calls Negroponte Immature
India has decided against getting involved in Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child scheme – which aims to provide kids in developing countries with a simple $100 machine. The success of the project depends on support, and big orders, from … Continue reading
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Highway Blogging
It takes only a bedsheet and 18-gauge wire for Bruce Macdonald to stir road rage in some motorists. For eight months the Cambridge lawyer has been stringing homemade banners from highway overpasses, including those crossing Interstate 93 and Route 128. … Continue reading
The Coming Islamic Superstate
Over the past several weeks the Dowbrigade has seen a sea change in his feelings about what is happening, and what will happen next, in the Middle East. We no longer see an intractable long-term struggle and the continuing deterioration … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Screeds
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Take That, Einstein
Ames, IA — Physicist Costas Soukoulis and his research group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on the Iowa State University campus are having the time of their lives making light travel backwards at negative speeds that appear … Continue reading
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