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No RSS feed? What’s up with that? I track 50 or so blogs via their RSS feeds but no such luck with OSM. Do I have to wait for some special open source RSS reader?
For those of you who somehow haven’t been barraged with all things OSM, Angry has the dish […]
From the Independent:
Endemol, the company behind ‘Big Brother’, is pulling out all the stops for its new Channel 4 production. In it, contestants vie to fly to space. The snag? They will be grounded at a military base, victims of probably the biggest hoax ever attempted on TV.
For 10 days, the channel will televise the […]
Yahoo:
A masked man believed to be one of Asia’s most wanted militants has warned Western countries, especially Australia, of more attacks in a video found last week by Indonesian anti-terrorist police.
Western leaders were quick to denounce the threat and say that they would not be cowed by terrorism especially by a threat as unoriginal and […]
Yahoo/AP:
Double murder and kidnapping suspect, David Ludwig, is “a really good guy” according to friends.
When not kidnapping 14-year old girls or shooting their parents…”He was friendly and joked around.” Said one friend, “I considered him to be a good Christian — he brought his Bible and read it during breaks.”
Hopefully a jury […]
You’ve just lost a loved one. You are exhausted dealing with all of the arrangements. You are in emotional turmoil. You are hurt. You are angry. You are sad. The funeral is in a few hours and you just don’t have the energy or mind set to “wail, scream and create the anguished sorrow befitting […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)France’s employment minister considers the above family to be unemployable and dangerous (ed. note: so do we)
From the Financial Times (UK)
France’s employment minister on Tuesday fingered polygamy as one reason for the rioting in the country.
Gérard Larcher said multiple marriages among immigrants was one reason for the racial discrimination which ethnic minorities faced in the […]
The search results that bring you to Independent Sources say a lot about both you our readers and us the writers. We decided to look at our traffic logs to see what search terms were bringing in the most traffic and how Independent Sources ranked in the search engines on those searches.
One of our more […]
The National Review’s John J. Miller has a summary of the worst parts of Barbara Boxer’s novel, “A Time To Run.” We’ve covered some before (see the end of this post) — such as “kneecaps that reminded him of golden apples,” but he’s got some other unintentionally hilarious excerpts. Overall, he writes, “saying that A […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Courtesy of Rosenblog, we’ve learned of a politician even loopier than what we’re used to here in California. One campaign promise: free crack.
Fortunately, he’s Canadian. Andrew Uitvlugt is a candidate for mayor of Kelowna, BC, population 105,000. In a video statement, he eschews the easy solutions to a mounting crime problem:
What I propose to do […]
L.A. Observed reports that the Los Angeles Times is closing down Tuesday’s Outdoors section. This was probably inevitable given the sparse ad pages it attracted, but I’ll miss it — it was unique, often very well written, and had great stories like today’s “A Voice For Silence” by John Balzar. There is no apparent home […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)According to reports in the San Francisco Chronicle and Sacramento Bee, the State of California is missing 8,848 vehicles from its fleet.
Maybe the same Bay Area detectives who discovered that sexual services were being proffered on Craigslist can shift their focus to eBay Motors?
Think you’re not getting your money’s worth from Sacramento? The San Francisco Chronicle reports that … you’re right!
State prison officials, as they grappled last year with the largest deficit in the agency’s history, allowed a private foundation that provides drug treatment to inmates to spend nearly $500,000 of taxpayer money to create a movie studio.
The […]
If you use Friendster, you will be interested to know that they are for sale. Oh, that’s none of you? Not surprising as they have gotten their clocks cleaned by My Space.
The reported price is in the ball park of $50m. That should be enough for the VCS to get all of their money plus […]
You may not have heard of Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), the Chair of the California Assembly’s Public Safety Committee. But that may be because he’s not doing anything to make you more secure. Convicted criminals? That’s another story.
Cathy Seipp has been exchanging fire with Leno in the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages. She accuses Leno […]
