Category Archives: ESL Links

We all know that big-time college football has long ago lost any credibility as amateur sport or academic adjunct, or in fact as anything but a wholly owned subsidiary and source of human raw material for Football, Inc. Befitting its … Continue reading →

A Nativity sculpture made out of 42 tons of ice has gone on show in the European Culture Capital 2003. The sculpture was created on Friday under the direction of Austrian artist Gert Hodl in what has become an Advent … Continue reading →

The Harvard Uber-Blogger, Philip Greenspan, has really out-done himself. Of course, he is always the Numero Uno on the Berkman Hit List, and deservedly so, but today he is in the process of ringing up a record – 17,783 so … Continue reading →

Regular readers may have noticed a decline in the frequency and profundity of the posts to the Dowbrigade. This is due to the didactic and administrative demands of the end of the Fall Semester. The exams, evaluations, essay rewrites, project … Continue reading →

Somewhere High in the Andes….

With hundreds of millions of investment and marketing dollars flowing into the sector, downloadable music could be the most active online commerce category. And with the activity comes a risk that it could resemble the Internet bubble of 1999, though … Continue reading →

  Shop assistant Natalya Butova holds a chocolate portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a chocolate shop in Moscow, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003. The portrait is made out of a 1.5 kilogram slab of solid white chocolate and various … Continue reading →

Researchers at Temple Universtiy report that Chinese youngsters, 18 months to 2 years old, are acquiring English language skills faster than their native-born schoolmates. Surely this is evidence that multi-lingualism is an enriching advantage, at least in young children. “Surprisingly, … Continue reading →

Every once in a while, even decidedly amateur psuedo-pundits get an email which can bring a tear to the eye of so crusty and callow a scoundrel as the Dowbrigade. Let us take this opportunity to answer one such missive…. … Continue reading →

Taking advantage of the fact that our step-father is an ex-RAF pilot with a functioning bi-plane, the Dowbrigade spent the holiday mastering the fine art of airborne tennis. Luckily our extensive experience playing in high winds along the banks of … Continue reading →

A remote tribe in the Brazilian jungle are now online after a charity gave them five battery-powered computers. The Guarani tribe who live deep in the Atlantic jungle, near Angra dos Reis, have even come up with their own word … Continue reading →

From a Blogging galaxy far away, a hit-inflation scandal is brewing.  Seems a bunch of bloggers who are part of the "League of Liberals" have each put up site-counters for the others blogs, with the net result that anyone who … Continue reading →