Our week away from the Independent Sources offices will end tomorrow and Independent Sources will resume its banal witty moronic punctuated postings.
If you have been missing your Independent Sources fix, we recommend looking at some of our older posts. Though simplistic and rough, many of the early writings are in fact better […]

France wants you back!
You just have to understand, what you saw wasn’t rioting, it was … umm, barbecue?
The recent rioting that scarred the suburbs of Paris and other French cities, leaving about 9,000 vehicles and many suburban buildings burned, prompted a drop in tourism, Transport Minister Dominique Perben told the National Assembly.
… French officials have […]

Microsoft management, apparently intent on illustrating how big its collective brains are, showed these Powerpoint slides at a recent developer’s conference. Are their graphic designers compensated per icon?

If you’re wondering where you fit in, you’re a node on the “People Network”

This slide was titled “How we trap the customer so they can’t escape.”

This one is […]

Given the choice between shopping online on the weekend — and missing out on football games and all that — and shopping while at work, guess which most people choose?
Last year, the Monday after Thanksgiving was the peak day for online transactions, according to VeriSign Payment Services, a unit of eBay Inc.’s PayPal that processes […]

A Living Will
A man and his wife were sitting in the living room and he said to her, “Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.”
His wife got up, unplugged the TV […]

In a move that is sure to bring howls of unconstitutionality from the ACLU and applause from parents:
A global positioning system used to monitor high-risk sex offenders resulted in the arrest of a parolee in Anaheim who had been in the parking lot of an elementary school, a doll shop and an amusement park for […]

The State of California’s $4 billion budget hole is being filled in … by Google.
Ted Gibson, a former chief state economist, cites the “Google effect.” He said that single company, based in the Bay Area city of Mountain View, produced so much stock market income for Californians in recent months that the capital gains taxes […]

From the Jawa Report:
Imam Warns Muslim Lingerie Model (Michelle Leslie) to Stop Modeling in her Underwear
Hot Muslim model Michelle Leslie has been warned by Muslim leaders that it is un-Islamic to model lingerie. The Australian model apparently converted to Islam as a way to convince a Bali court to reduce her drug sentence to the […]

Through Patterico, we find Iowahawk’s hilarious “press release” about Pajamas Open Source Media:
Q: How will value be created?
A: Ask any business consultant: the key to getting that sweet-ass yacht is through volume. By coordinated mutual plagiarizing, blogs within the OSM network will save significant posting costs, which will accrue to the bottom line. Also, we […]

Iran’s newly elected president (not pictured above in his youthful terrorist abduction days), Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is purging government institutions, acting like a dictator and bringing accusations by some that he is “undertaking a coup d’état.”
This is the same guy who has spoken of “wiping Israel off the map” and appears to be taking Iran on […]

[If you’re looking for info on topless photos of French newscaster Melissa Theuriau, go to this post.]
Poor Kate Moss. It’s clear that Kate is having her share of drug problems and hopefully she will one day clean herself up. However, because of the nature of the Internet, she and future employers will have to contend […]

A group of blind and visually impaired people sued the Social Security Administration on Wednesday for cutting their benefits after they failed to respond to printed notices they couldn’t read.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Technorati Tags: blind, braille, California, lawyers, social security

The Daily Kos’ “Hunter” is upset at the use of the phrase “deranged moonbats” in the opening of Jonah Goldberg’s inaugural LAT column. Hunter says this makes the LAT editorial pages more blog-like, and that’s bad:
What is the purpose of editorial content? Is it meant to educate readers? To debate issues? To provide new, original […]

Yahoo News:

UK pervert and former rock star Gary Glitter is wanted by police in Vietnam who are investigating a possible relationship between him and a juvenile boy.
It doesn’t look so good for him. I don’t know how they treat sex offenders in Vietnam, but having seen “Brokedown Palace” I think that’s a part of the […]

When you roll out of bed Monday morning and get ready for a day working so you can pay for your house / kids / car / affectation, consider the story of Johnny Lechner, twelfth year senior at the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, and perhaps feel some envy.
Yes, twelfth … year … senior. He’s […]