Tamara Hoover is the most popular person at school at Independent Sources and probably one of the most popular Internet searches right now.
57% of our current traffic is coming in from Internet searches of her name, and it’s increasing.

Last 100 visitors to Independent Sources midday on 8/18/06
Read the related stories below or type her […]

If you want to see photos & captions like this daily:

FBI Agent’s Cover Blown By Own Jacket

Then add The Onion to your RSS feed. (While you are at it, add Independent Sources too).

A few nights ago it was Norwegian visitors who were flooding the site. Tonight it’s Sweden’s turn. It’s been fun watching our URL story move around the world as well as dragging people like Tamara Hoover and Erica Chevillar along with them. Those and other stories must give an odd impression of our culture. We […]

Pretty big upgrade over at Technorati as they work to avoid becoming irrelevant in the world they helped create. At first glace I like it but part of me found comfort in the familiarity of the previous version. Also, being a creature of habit, I’m not sure how many of the changes are in fact […]

Chad, Senior Admin, and I (Insider) are celebrating our one millionth page view on Independent Sources. We know that this is small potatoes to those hot shot blogs who tout their 3+ million pages or whatever just this year, but for a couple of yahoos like us it’s a pretty big deal.
Watch for a follow-up […]

Link.
tags: basketball

I’m up late and decided to look at the Independent Sources stats. One of the packages we use is the free version of StatCounter which shows the last 100 visitors. This is what I saw when I looked at the “countries” tab:

We seem to be quite popular in the Kingdom of Norway this evening and […]

Thank you readers for our biggest day (over 72,000 page views) and one of our most popular posts ever.

Update: Saturday’s total was 68,863, just shy of our record.
Update: Sunday total was54,645 56,713, our biggest Sunday ever.
Update: Monday total was 86,641, a new record.
Update: Tuesday traffic 61,113, our biggest Tuesday.
Update: Wednesday traffic 49,831, our biggest Wednesday.
Update: […]

Filed under “What took them so long?” …
Heatseek is a pornography focused browser that quietly launched today. The point of this software is to make porn browsing more efficient and more secure. … They’ve clearly thought this through. Every feature is aimed at either making porn consumption easier or making it less likely that others […]

Real estate web site Zillow — the one that estimates the now-stagnant value of your house — has published a heat map of the LA region, showing price per square foot from County Line to Laguna Beach:

At $1,000 / square foot, what’s the beachfront land at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo worth? Could they […]

Blog posts will start again tomorrow.

Well at least one person appears happy about my return.

Chad, Senior Admin, Insider and some of the behind-the-scenes staff members of Independent Sources take a rare break from the never-ending job of pop politics blogging. Photo is from the Independent Sources 4th of July staff picnic where a good time was had by all (including the women-folk):

Can you tell who is who?
tags: 4th of […]

via digg.com I give you the Tour de France live tracker. According to the developer the Tour de France live tracker will display live data such as heart beat, speed, stress points, distance, power and current position next to each driver.
There is probably a way to embed it here but I am […]

Yahoo news is reporting David Hasselhoff was injured in a “freak gym mishap” yesterday. According to his publicist David Hasselhoff was shaving at the gym when he hit a chandelier with his head causing glass to shower his right arm and severing the tendons. Amazingly this is not suprising and seems strangely appropriate […]

To be honest, this story is breaking faster than we can write about it so we are going to link to the excellent Tour de France blog for their thorough coverage. We’ve also asked our cycling expert Luke to take a day to analyze what this means for the tour. We hope to post his […]