The Los Angeles Times‘ Chuck Culpepper points out that Australia is really winning the Olympic medal count if you adjust for population. As of yesterday (Monday), the Aussies had a medal for every 4.1 million residents … the U.S. one for every 25.3 million.
Culpepper’s table doesn’t go beyond #10 Azerbajan, but we have a good [...]
Okay, my camera phone sucks, but it was still cool to see this soon-to-be celebrity in front of my local Santa Monica Starbucks.
None other than Stanford’s Robin Lopez, one of the Twin Towers that took Stanford into the NCAA Tournament, walked in front of me as I was pulling into the coffee outlet’s parking lot. [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Okay, it’s a crappy photo but I just don’t have the paparazzi skill of intruding on people’s lives just to snap a photo of them. Instead I just pretended to be talking on my Blackberry Curve while I took these. (If I had an iPhone it would have looked better).
Maria Shriver at Brentwood, CA Starbucks
Hopefully [...]
We closed the Independent Sources offices to attend the Thur/Sat NCAA regionals in Anaheim, CA. One of our regular supporters comped the staff with 5th row seats (and who says blogging doesn’t pay?).
The exciting conclusion to the UCLA – Texas A&M game.
View from the 5th row.
Staff members having a good time despite the ‘no beer’ [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Last Sunday Independent Sources was at the Pacific Palisades YMCA Christmas tree lot looking for a nice noble fir to brighten up our rather drab editorial offices when everywhere we turned we found ourselves face-to-face with actual celebrities. First we saw Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly Buffington who tragically have been in the news [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)h/t: Window Manager
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Yet another photo of Muggezifter’s behind
Step 1: Buy camera
Step 2: Set the timer for a self-portrait
Step 3: Mistakenly set timer for 2 seconds
Step 4: Run!
Step 5: Repeat Steps 3-4 at various locations in Holland
Step 6: Post resulting pictures on blog
Step 7: Watch traffic roll in that surpasses most other blogs
In addition to drug scandals, the 07 Tour de France has been dogged by dog collisions. Given that it is one of the largest sporting events in the world you would think that people could have kept their dogs tied up, at least for the few minutes it takes for the peloton to ride by. [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)IndependentSources was hosted at LunarPages from its inception in 2005. As of this week, we’re out of there. For the benefit of anyone researching hosting companies, here’s our tale.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)It was initially a typical day at the beach.
Venice Beach at its best
But if you turned around it looked like a nuclear bomb had gone off in LA. It turns out to have been a brush fire in Griffith Park.
Los Angeles Brush Fire
Then if you turned to the left you could see a smaller, yet [...]
What is both spectacular and stupid at the same time?
I received these from Dr. Hoist via an email that was aptly titled “when bike helmets are unnecessary”.
I found more Victor Lucas photos at his website.
Does this make me look fat?
You might be surprised to learn that Insider has a mother and that is where I was on Thanksgiving–stuffing myself. Unfortunately, I was also sick and mom considers 28.8k AOL to be high-speed so posting was impossible. So I’m catching up now. Unfortunately some stories that we’d like to [...]
One of our favorite blogs here at Independent Sources is the econoblog Marginal Revolution. Thus it was with great pleasure that we came across this Los Angeles Times front page business section story about them and its primary writer Tyler Cowen.
Cowen describes his fans as “high IQ, possibly nerdy, looking for kicks or for something [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Independent Sources Celebrates Milestone
Looking back over the past 18 months or so and the stories that got us to two million page views we see a mix of politics, humor, and female hotness.
Most recently and in a class of its own (about 300 links/comments) we have: Top Ten Unintentionally Worst URLs
Also in a class [...]
Close call?
A water main blew the other day and was big news in our neighborhood though terrorism was ultimately ruled out as there have been no young Arabic looking men sighted in the area since…well, ever.
We all drove our cars through it and got a free car wash compliments of DWP.
That said, our neighborhood watch [...]
