Category Archives: ESL Links

Mar 17, 2004 — The Town of Leesburg’s former director of Information Technology was sentenced this morning to four months in jail for stealing nearly $40,000 from the town to pay for escort services and to buy high-performance car parts … Continue reading →

Scientists have shown that the bubbles in a pint of Guinness really do move down instead of up. To mark St Patrick’s Day, a team of Scottish and US researchers has produced video evidence to show the bubbles being dragged … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade has been smelling something fishy in the Department of Labor and Office of Management and Budget statistics for a while now. Although we don’t have an advanced degree in economics, it is obvious to any fool with half … Continue reading →

Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe columnist and indefatigable crusader against the sham that is "amateur" collegiate sports in this country, especially football and basketball. The Dowbrigade has also written about the cruel dream of teen transcendence into professional sports, an American … Continue reading →

Golf has never been one of our top shelf competitive activities. It seemed to us to be mainly an excuse for paunchy white guys to get out of the house dressed like pinps and spend a few hours strolling over … Continue reading →

By the Dowbrigades’s unofficial count, this is at least the eighth time they have discovered a 10th planet. Do they keep discovering the same one over and over, or are there really SEVENTEEN planets? Scientists in the United States were … Continue reading →

It’s not just that science is running a little ahead of schedule, delivering a lot of 23rd century technology right here at the start of the 21st, like wireless communicators, wall-mounted flat-panel displays, and unisex velour jumpers. Now, it appears … Continue reading →

It is refreshing that even a jaded, inveterate science fiction fan like the Dowbrigade can still come across ideas so simple and profound that they make us sit up an think "Why didn’t WE think of that?" Such a moment … Continue reading →

In an America fraught with class, racial, religious and sexual tensions, genealogy may yet play a role in what is shaping up to be the nastiest, and most most divisive elections in recent history. However, despite their obvious differences in … Continue reading →

As usual, the Dowbrigade is lagging behind his geekier goombahs, bringing up the trailing edge of the early adopters. This time it is the next generation of file sharing which has captured our attention and pushed us once again into … Continue reading →