BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis

August 01, 2003

One more
: Add to my list of presidential-candidate weblogs, below, a weblog from one of the movements to draft Wesley Clark. And another for him.

: And, thanks to a commenter below, the Kucinich blog.

: Yo, Bush, where's your blog?

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Murder on murder
: This scares Salam Pax, and for good reason:

Two hours before the dawn call to prayer, in a village still shrouded in silence, Sabah Kerbul's executioners arrived. His father carried an AK-47 assault rifle, as did his brother. And with barely a word spoken, they led the man accused by the village of working as an informer for the Americans behind a house girded with fig trees, vineyards and orange groves.
His father raised his rifle and aimed it at his oldest son.
"Sabah didn't try to escape," said Abdullah Ali, a village resident. "He knew he was facing his fate."

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Rebuilding
: Greg Allen, who knows much more about this than I do, is quite happy with the selection of Santiago Calatrava as the architect who'll design the transit center at the World Trade Center. The NYTimes report also says there seems to be peace among architects and pols and that's good news, for the sooner they start building now, the better.

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I thee can't wed
: Howard Sherman defines the difference:

Here's one important difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals don't give a damn who you marry. Conservatives think it is a crime against humanity if your conception of marriage isn't exactly the same as theirs.

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Brainy
: Steven Johnson is ready to start talking about his next book, about your brain.

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The Gawker Girl
: So Gawker has added personals and this young woman is now pictured on the home page: Want a date with her? Want to go to the coolest Gawker hangout or perhaps the Conde cafeteria? Want to get matching trucker hats?
Why do I smell ringer? Surely, they hired an actress to portray the perfect Gawker Girl, no? Surely, they wrote her personal:

Favorite on-screen sex scene
The directors cut of 'Lilo & Stitch' or 'Anal encounters 2', it's always been a tough call.

Surely, she can get a date.
Ah, but then perhaps she snarks them away. Yes, that's why she's the Gawker Girl.
Note the other pictures on her personal: The guy with the arm around her unceremoniously amputated at the shoulder.
Date her if you dare.

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Yes, something to learn from Europe
: Norway is gobsmacked at Bush's stance against gay marriage. From net-only newspaper Nettavisen:

Norwegian politicians are shocked that President Bush is opposing homosexual marriages and think the President should look to Norway, where several prominent politicians are openly gay and experiences with homosexual marriages are positive.
Kristin Halvorsen, leader of the socialist left-wing party SV, is shocked that President Bush is opposing homosexual marriages, as the attitude towards homosexuality is completely different in Norway. Norway legalised homosexual marriages 13 years ago.
Even the Norwegian Conservative Party, who is strongly represented in government, has a number of prominent members who are openly homosexual, amongst them Minister of Finance, Per-Kristian Foss....
In Europe, 10 countries have legalised homosexual marriages. The ten countries are France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, England, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Croatia. In certain areas of Spain and Switzerland homosexual marriages are legalised, according to AFP.

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Buy these people some T-shirts
: Movable Type needs his own T-shirts, so Anil doesn't have to wear the competitor's.

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Why I want Arnold to run
: 1. It would be fun to watch.
2. I want Dick Riordan to concentrate instead on starting his newspaper and giving Layne and Welch real jobs.

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But seriously, folks...
: Ann Coulter and Geraldo Rivera aren't updating their blogs. But Bill Maher is:

It was announced this week that Madonna is considering in vitro fertilization to have another child at 44. Which is like trying to plant crops in a field that’s been over-farmed. On the upside, while in the stirrups, doctor’s found two World Series rings and Dennis Rodman’s wristband.

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Just wait til they measure the French...
: How did I miss this at Ananova?

Germany has demanded a rethink on EU guidelines on condom size after finding its average penis did not measure up.
Doctors around Essen were ordered by the government's health department to check out the average size suggested by Brussels.
They reported the EU has overestimated the size of the average penis by almost 20% and insist other countries will discover the same.
Urologist Gunther Hagler, head of the team compiling the research, said: "By checking hundreds of patients we found German penises were too small for standard EU condoms.
"On average they were 14.48 cms long and 3.95 cms wide. That makes them much smaller than the EU standard condom size of 17 cms in length and 5.6 cms in width."
He denied the German man was any smaller than the rest of Europe, adding: "We think the EU has got its sums wrong, and if other countries were to check out their men's assets they would find the EU has made a mistake in its calculations.
"There should be a rethink and the EU statisticians should check their figures again. After all, they have also ruled EU standard condoms should be able to hold 18 litres of fluid without breaking, which also seems a bit excessive."

The Italians must have thrown the average. [via Gene Expression]

: But when Croatia joins the EU, it will lower the average:

A drunken Croat flasher got more excitement than he bargained for when he pushed his penis through a woman's fence and her dog bit it, local newspapers said on Friday.

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And the second prize is a vice-presidential nod
: John Kerry's web site is running a contest to win a day campaigning with John Kerry.
Free chicken.

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Poliblogs
: So the world knows that Howard Dean has a blog (no wonder, with David Weinberger as his Internet adviser).
: This morning, I saw that Joe Biden has an "unofficial" (uh-huh) presidential campaign blog (and he, too, is arranging meet-ups).
: Tom Daschle just started a blog about his travels.

I’ve gotten in my car every August and driven all over South Dakota – no schedule and no staff.... After a day of driving I will post on this site some thoughts, stories, and anything else that may come to mind.

: So does Jerry Springer.
: And, of course, Gary Hart.

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