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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 by Chad
The organizers of E3 take another step in their downward slide towards oblivion, by banning Wonder Woman (actually model Kasey Poteet NSFW) from the convention center.
Kasey is in the running to play Wonder Woman in the new Josh Whedon movie, and is attempting to increase her chance by appearing in a Wonder Woman costume whenever […]
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Sunday, May 21st, 2006 by Insider
What’s next: Warning stickers to keep desktops off desks?
The new Apple MacBooks include a warning in manual advising customers not to use their laptops on their laps:
“Do not leave the bottom of your MacBook Pro in contact with your lap or any surface of your body for extended periods. Prolonged contact with your […]
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Friday, May 19th, 2006 by A Senior Administration Official
The notorious law firm Milberg Weiss has put up a website with their initial PR defense against their indictment yesterday on conspiracy charges. It’s an interesting exercise in talking past the issue at hand:
“The Justice Department’s case against Milberg Weiss is based on unprecedented legal theories, unsubstantiated allegations, and a dubious interpretation of how class […]
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Friday, May 19th, 2006 by Insider
“Marijuana for sale” not the wisest text message say experts.
Why is this man so sad?
Jacob Lyman, 18, is sad because he was just arrested on two counts of distribution. Lyman was sending out text messages that said, “Marijuana for sale.” After a tip, investigators said they contacted his phone and purchased pot from the fledgling […]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006 by Chad
I’m not real sure if she thought out all the implication of that sign.
Once again this year E3 continues their ban on scantily clad booth babes, so the geek attendence factor is probably down some. They don’t really think those guys go just for the games do they?
Technorati tags: Games, E3, Hotties, […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 by Insider
Social networking leader MySpace has just launched its IM client (let’s call it the “AIM Killer”) meanwhile IM leader AIM has just launched it’s social networking tools (the “MySpace Killer“).
Meanwhile Microsoft is trying to launch one of everything that Google launches which is kind of easy because Google is trying to build a web service […]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006 by Insider
Paramount Learns that Body Thetans Don’t Buy Movie Tickets
Independent Sources was going to ignore the poor opening week-end of Mission Impossible III until we game across Defamer’s take which (like Katie Holmes) was deserving of reproduction:
Tom Cruise did everything we could ask of our highest-visibility movie star: plucked an actress from semi-obscurity just before the […]
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Friday, May 5th, 2006 by Insider
How about a web site for hooking up borrowers who can’t get a loan from anywhere else with lenders who are not in the business of making loans? Prosper is exactly that. On the list of borrows is a young man who wants to borrow $12,000 to buy a wedding ring, someone else […]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006 by Insider
Makes you wonder if these videos really work.
That was the 80’s, here is Whitney today:
Sex Toy Report Tops Whitney’s Really Bad Week
tags: whitney houston crack
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 by Insider
Real Travel:
Tag line: “Real People. Real Advice. Real Experience.”
Logo: Little globe
‘”…an exciting new online community that lets people like you share and find detailed advice and experiences on places around the world. And we make it easy for you to connect to other travelers who are just as passionate about travel as you.”
Not to be […]
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Monday, May 1st, 2006 by Insider
Many years ago I learned to treat stock analysts reports with more than a grain of salt. In case you haven’t yet reached that same conclusion you might want to read this blog posting which details how poorly Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter projections on Netflix and Blockbuster video played out over a period of […]
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Thursday, April 20th, 2006 by Insider
According to Popbitch, Madonna was voted Best Female by the Australian MTV Music Awards but hadn’t bothered to record an acceptance video so organizers decided instead that the Best Female Award should go to Ashlee Simpson. They should change the name of the award to “Best Female (that we were able to get to record […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006 by Insider
I don’t know about you but here at Independent Sources central we like to watch TV. However by watching TV we mean watching a lot of DVDs rented from Netflix and then about a half-dozen channels (particularly HBO, History Channel, OLN, Fox News, CNN, Comedy Central and the Fox Network). That’s about it so when […]
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Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 by Insider
Independent Sources may not know about marketing automobiles, but if this is your impression of why customers will buy your product that can’t be good:
“I remember being told by a GM executive … that they’d never worried about Buick because as people got older and richer, their asses would get fatter and they would always […]
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Monday, March 6th, 2006 by Insider
I almost never open letters involving class action lawsuits since in the end they never seem to be worth the effort. More often than not, the plaintiff lawyers get a nice stack of cash, the defendant gets off with a slap on the wrist–often by dumping worthless certificates on the settlement class or by donating […]
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