Wizbang: December 2003 Archives

Finishing The Year With A Bang

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2003 · Comments (4)

JP Carter from Evangelical Outpost pointed out a site called BlogRunner that rates the most influential reporters and bloggers on the web. Professor Bainbridge and Doctor Joyner both noted the listing today. Here's the Top Ten listing for 12/31/2003: 001. Glenn Reynolds Instapundit.com [snapshot] 002. Kevin Drum Calpundit [snapshot] 003.... [Full Story]

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Me, A Reality TV Star?

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2003 · Comments (0)

Beth predicts I'll get my own reality TV show. As long as Mark Burnett is the producer, I'm game. ... [Full Story]

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People Who Died

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2003 · Comments (0)

The Baltimore City Paper has an interesting feature on lesser known but intriguing persons who died in 2003. My favorite is the profile of Dr. Peter Safar, who is credited with the invention of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. As the author notes:For that alone, Safar would be worth mention in the annals... [Full Story]

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Crystal Balls

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2003 · Comments (1)

Stephen Green gives you 50 things that will happen in 2004. I'd be surprised if more than half of them don't happen just as he predicts.... [Full Story]

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Prevent Blank Blog

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 31, 2003 · Comments (3)

Today's Movable Type lesson (this includes TypePad) is inspired by this post at InstaPundit wondering why Tom Maguires blog is blank. The Movable Type help file explains this behavior.By default, an index template displays the last N days worth of entries, where N is defined in your weblog configuration. For... [Full Story]

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Bonfire Of The Vanities - Week 26

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2003 · Comments (1)

The Bonfire Of The Vanities is now a traveling show. Next weeks edition will be at Boots And Sabers. Entries should still be sent to bonfire at wizbangblog.com. The upcoming Bonfire schedule and signup information is listed here. If you want to be reminded to enter the Bonfire each week... [Full Story]

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BlogMadness

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2003 · Comments (0)

What is BlogMadness? It's a bracketed competition (like NCAA Basketball's March Madness) for blog posts. Don't take my word for it, head on over to BlogMadness 2003 and see for yourself. The rules are simple, just enter a post authored in 2003, but make sure it's a good one... BigWig... [Full Story]

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The Curse Of Danny Wuerffel

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2003 · Comments (12)

Steve Spurrier walks away from $15 million dollars over the next three years because he lost the inane power strugle over the cutting of rag-armed Danny Wuerffel as one of his quarterbacks.WASHINGTON (AP) - Steve Spurrier resigned as coach of the Washington Redskins on Tuesday, ending a failed attempt to... [Full Story]

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FDA To Ban Ephedra

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2003 · Comments (3)

The biggest misnomer going is that things at the "health store" are good for you. I would say that the neighborhood GNC aisles are full of junk science, but that's an insult to practitioners of junk science. Most of these supplements don't even bother with biased studies and the like,... [Full Story]

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And That's The Rest Of The Story...

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 30, 2003 · Comments (14)

Neb. Woman Ticketed for Being Nude on Net Why do papers bother printing stories with titles like this without giving you the full story? Is it because they know that I will? Anyway, here is the full story on the latest girl gone wild/police go nuts story...LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -... [Full Story]

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Advice For A Two Year Old

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2003 · Comments (1)

There are few things that I am currently more qualified for than giving advice to two year old boys...Play with your "thing" all you like, just don't let your mom see you doing it. Torment others all you like, just don't let your mom see you doing it. It's time... [Full Story]

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New Years Blog Resolutions

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2003 · Comments (6)

It's that time of year... While everyone may be making the standard personal resolutions of losing weight, getting to the gym, and spending more time with the kids; I figured it may be worthwhile to list a few blog specific goals.Not assume people know what your are talking about. -... [Full Story]

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Winning The Peace

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2003 · Comments (1)

What was that stuff I was hearing from the Clark campaign about how great the victory in Serbia was?BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Jailed former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and another accused war criminal could become members of Serbia's parliament after their extreme nationalist allies swept weekend elections, according to results... [Full Story]

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Why Do They Hate Us?

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2003 · Comments (0)

It certainly doesn't help matters if schools in the Middle East teach a curriculum that fosters militancy. Good for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for beginning to address the problem in the schools.KUWAIT, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Kuwait is revising text books used at state schools to remove references that could... [Full Story]

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Money Talks

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2003 · Comments (2)

It's the Carnival of the Capitalists (business and economics posts) and it's at The American Mind. Belated congratulations to Sean who's blog recently celebrated it's 4th aniversary. ... [Full Story]

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Welcome Back Kate

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 29, 2003 · Comments (0)

Venomous Kate returns from a back injury induced hiatus ready to rumble. Beware... She's only a few visitors away from the 300K mark as well. Congratulations (in advance)!... [Full Story]

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Weekend Caption Contest™ Winners

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2003 · Comments (0)

Here are the winning entries in this weeks Weekend Caption Contest™: 1) (Jay Tea) - "Wet the balls in a frozen river/ fa la la la la la la la la/ Watch your privates shrink and shiver/ fa la la la la la lala la/ " 2) - (Tiger) -... [Full Story]

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Missing The Point

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2003 · Comments (0)

Jeff Jarvis offers a good tip in regards to Glenn Reynolds complaint about the Hartford Courant, but to my viewpoint it's not totally relevant as a blogger. I can use my username/password or one that is passed around via other sites, but what's the point? If I link to a... [Full Story]

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Bonfire Of The Vanities Reminder

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2003 · Comments (2)

This weeks edition of the Bonfire is the 6 month anniversary so it will be a "Best Of" edition. Since Christmas week was a low output week for most sites that works out very well. Anyone who has ever submitted an entry to the Bonfire is invited to pick their... [Full Story]

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Mad Cow Patties

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 28, 2003 · Comments (4)

There's an interesting discussion on the fallout from the Mad Cow case over at John Cole's Balloon Juice. Both sides make good points. Anyone looking to score political gain from this situation is likely to end up with a foot in the manure. Clearly the Mad Cow discovery is bad... [Full Story]

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Get Your Own "Major Award"

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 27, 2003 · Comments (1)

LOS ANGELES - A couple from Naperville, Ill., has taken a prop from the classic 1983 film "A Christmas Story" and turned it into a profitable online business. Specifically, it's the infamous lamp shaped like a woman's leg that Rob Golden has been selling over the Internet. In the film,... [Full Story]

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Transcontinental Fishing

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 27, 2003 · Comments (0)

Mac is attempting a superhuman feat of blogging, by listing every blog in her massive time zone oriented blogroll and why she reads it. When I finally do a quote section in the sidebar her kind words are definitely going there! If you're looking to expand your reading horizons, you're... [Full Story]

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Weekend Caption Contest™

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 26, 2003 · Comments (21)

It's Friday, so it must be time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Winners to be announced Sunday. Update: Winners announced. Click the link to read the winning entries. The contest is now closed.... [Full Story]

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Where's Beagle 2?

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 26, 2003 · Comments (0)

Somewhere on Mars a little roving unit is playing a Blur song that is supposed to be the call signal for a successful landing. The problem is no one can find the signal. Perhaps Oasis brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher are behind the whole affair. They would be getting the... [Full Story]

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How To Get Fired Because Of Your Blog

Posted by Kevin · Published: December 26, 2003 · Comments (2)

A blogger named Brooklynbacon has been identified as and NYPD officer and is now facing an Internal Affairs investigation.Newsday - Police Commissioner Ray Kelly yesterday confirmed a Newsday report that Internal Affairs is investigating whether a Brooklyn police officer posted Internet messages that boasted of brutality and bogus tickets. "An... [Full Story]

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