Category Archives: ESL Links

Kathy Kiely, writing in USA TODAY of all places, weighs in with what, in our humble opinion, is the best mainstream media article to date on the blogging phenomena. The woman “gets it” and knows how to explain it in … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce that the Dowbrigade has obtained the rights to dowbrigade.com, so that Dowbrigade News is now also available at http://dowbrigade.com.  Of course, the actual site will remain on the Harvard Law School blog server, so both URL’s … Continue reading →

An excellent retrospective on the influence of the Internet on this year’s presidential race appeared today in a nationally syndicated column by Ronald Brownstein. He starts with a repetition of the fundraising success of the Dean Campaign, but then ventures … Continue reading →

ARMIN Meiwes, the increasingly confident Cannibal of Rotenburg, has been helping police unravel an international network of man-eaters. From Austria to the US, willing victims going by names such as Hansel and Gretel queued up to be eaten by or … Continue reading →

A cool, calm lake. Your dog frolicking along the beach. Your significant other admiring your attempt to skip a stone across the water — and, to your deep embarrassment, it plops straight down with nary a bounce. Has this ever … Continue reading →

I recently came across some notes I took shortly after being kidnapped by Tupac Amaru guerillas in Peru. It all came rushing back, and inspired a posting concerning Michael Jackson, the Crocodile Hunter, NYTimes columnist Nicolas Kristoff and myself, which … Continue reading →

A group of friends allegedly stole their pal’s body from a morgue and took it to their favourite bar in Peru to mourn it. According to the newspaper Peru 21, the body of 47-year-old Olga Riva was stolen by her … Continue reading →

Anyone in the Boston area who is free tomorrow afternoon and wants to check out the latest iteration of Intro to Blogging, come by MIT Building 52 (the "Trading Room" in the basement) and take the tour with Andrew Grumet … Continue reading →

from the Telegraph (london) Roger Mugford, an animal psychologist from Surrey who treated another of Princess Anne’s dogs after a similar biting incident, said yesterday that he had been asked to treat eight-year-old Florence. He is expected to begin this … Continue reading →

Despite his generally cavalier attitude towards such journalistic conventions as imagined objectivity and exhaustive fact-checking, increasing exposure and a growing readership has made the Dowbrigade aware the mere fact of publishing in a public place carries with it certain inescapable … Continue reading →

There are lots of reasons to be careful about using the Internet. Here’s one more – the stuff you publish on your personal website could cost you your job. Michael Hanscom learned the hard way. Hanscom worked at a printing … Continue reading →

ISTANBUL — The allegations can be heard almost everywhere in Turkey now, from farmers’ wives eating in humble kebab shops, in influential journals, and from erudite political leaders: American troops have raped thousands of Iraqi women and young girls since … Continue reading →