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Archive for September, 2005

I Swear I bought “Girls Gone Wild” to help the Red Cross

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 by Insider

The team from GirlsGoneWild has given every husband the opportunity to order their tapes without fear of discovery by the other half.

Now if the folks from the Spice Channel would do the same thing!
h/t: Buzz Machine
Others blogging about this important (most with superior headlines and captions to ours):

FBI Promises (Hot Agent-on-Agent) War on Porn (Hammer […]

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The Great Pork Reduction of 2005: You Can Help

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

Shortly after the extent of the damage caused by hurricane Katrina’s became clear, Independent Sources’ vast editorial staff planned to write a post proposing that part of the federal government’s costs be offset by reductions in the recently passed porkfest known as the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21). The pork content of […]

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California Legislature to Students: Diplomas For Everyone!

Monday, September 19th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

Part of our (very) occasional series “We Agree With The Los Angeles Times‘ Editorial Page” … from Sunday’s Current:
The bar is low enough
If passing grades or senior reports signified that students were fit for a diploma, there never would have been a high school exit exam in the first place. Now that the exam is […]

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California Prop 79: Brought To You By A Plaintiff’s Lawyer Near You

Monday, September 19th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

We were trying to learn more about this fall’s Proposition 79, “Prescription Drug Discounts. State-Negotiated Rebates,” when we came across a section in the legislative analyst’s summary that should guarantee a “no” vote from any sensible Californian:
Profiteering From Drug Sales. Existing state law does not limit the prices or profits that can be earned on […]

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David Geffen’s To-Do List After Buying the Los Angeles Times

Monday, September 19th, 2005 by Insider

According to our sources, these are the first things David Geffen will do if he buys the Los Angeles Times:

Update comics section with same 3-D digital technology used to make Shrek.
Require music critic Robert Hilburn to issue retroactive corrections on all Geffen-related albums that received less-than-stellar reviews over the past 30 years.
Change name to LA Times […]

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405 Freeway Killing Takes New Twist

Sunday, September 18th, 2005 by Insider

Evidently one of the 8 Million Ways to Die is to fall out of a limousine into pre-dawn traffic on the 405 Freeway:

On August 10, 2005, [Jessica] Rowe was killed when she fell out of a limousine and into pre-dawn traffic on the San Diego Freeway. The 17-foot-long, 20-passenger Hummer limo was traveling in the […]

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Surface to Air “Irregularity” Fired at Flight 17, Not!

Sunday, September 18th, 2005 by Insider

Was a missile fired at Flight 17 as it left JFK? One would think that it is a simple question that would get a “yes” or “no” answer. Think again.
When asked by blogger Michele Malkin, American West responded to the question confirming an “irregularity” on the flight. To me an in-flight “irregularity” is someone is sitting […]

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Malibu Sheriffs to Bicyclists: If the cars don’t get you, we will

Saturday, September 17th, 2005 by Insider

Last Saturday two cyclists were riding on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and were killed by a passing catering truck. The cyclists had been forced into traffic lanes by a construction barriers in the bike lane. If you haven’t already done so, read the complete story here.
As with any catastrophe, some people will point the […]

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Management Secrets of Street Gangs

Saturday, September 17th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the state prisons’ “Sensitive-Needs Yards” have a rapidly expanding population. Once reserved for “prison’s pariahs — sex offenders, informants, homosexuals,” in seven years the SNY headcount has grown from 1,000 to 13,000 as gang members seek an escape … from their own gangs. In short, criminal organizations don’t […]

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To Get It Right, You’d Have To Pay Us $10,000 A Day

Friday, September 16th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

“The starting point is to design the right services. At the moment, most companies provide too few or too many service offerings.”
- consulting company McKinsey, applying zillions of MBA person-hours to the problem of defining sales-and-service products and still not coming up with an answer.

(link - probably pay)

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Weekend Edition: Is It Real? Or the Onion?

Friday, September 16th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

Our occasional Weekend Edition feature “Is It Real? Or The Onion” returns!
Here are three news items you could have seen recently. Which one is fake?

eBay to Pay Billions for Company With $60m Revenue
Five-bladed Men’s Razor Introduced
1,000 Activists Jointly Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

Click on “Read the rest of this entry” below to see the answer.

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Malibu: Sunshine, movie stars, and senseless deaths on PCH

Friday, September 16th, 2005 by Insider

Forward: This story has particular relevance to me as every week I ride my bike over the exact same stretch of PCH in Malibu as the two riders who were killed last Saturday. Every week I comment to my riding partner that the situation there is incredibly dangerous. For the past several months I had wondered out […]

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Why Riots, Mudslides, Fires, and Earthquakes Are Good For You

Thursday, September 15th, 2005 by A Senior Administration Official

Tomorrow’s Economist (pay site) will have an article on California’s emergency preparedness vis-a-vis New Orleans
“… California, the nation’s most populous state, is also its most vulnerable to natural disaster. And perhaps to man-made disaster, too: Los Angeles Airport, the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay bridges and Disneyland are all […]

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“Looters” Photo: Example of Poor Taste

Thursday, September 15th, 2005 by Insider

Independent Sources is running this photo for the sole purpose of demonstrating the poor taste exhibited by the people who create these “spoofs” as well as those who propagate them by emailing them around and/or publishing them in blogs. We find this exceptionally distasteful and trust that you will cease emailing us things like this […]

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Goodbye Technorati, it was nice knowing you

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 by Insider

Look what’s here:

As Ramblewords says:
Right now the biggest difference between the two engines, other than speed, is relevance. In Technorati, the author determines relevance by assigning tags to their posts. In Google’s blogsearch, Google determines relevance with their own algorithms.
By the way, is anything at Google not Beta?
technorati: google google blog search technorati

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