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 […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Imagine, you are sitting in a 120 degree desert, hostile people who all have moustaches are shooting at you, you’re bored and you want to surf some porn, unfortunately the US Army only allows you 15 minutes of internet access a day. What do you do? You say screw it and establish a […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Story labeled “not newsworthy” by newly-sensitive faction within I.S.
If you are interested in the story about the former handyman who won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection you’ll just have to click to the Jammy. Sorry, we are simply not able to talk about the […]
Following the tragic deaths of Stanislav Ionov and Scott Bleifer last year, a number of parties have been working on making Pacific Coast Highway safer for cyclists. Step one is a very small step–placing “Share the Road” signs along the more dangerous stretches of the highway. While some may scoff that drunk drivers and speeders […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Below are the facts as laid out in newly released report commissioned the International Cycling Union on allegations that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs during his first win in 1999.
1. Most importantly, Armstrong is cleared of all allegations of steroid use as was widely reported in the French media.
2. The tests on urine samples were […]
The Independent Sources team wishes all the best on this Memorial Day week-end.
Chad is going spending it listening to his old 38-Special 8-tracks.
Senior Admin is scouring junk yards for AMC Hornet parts.
Insider is sittin’ on his porch all day with a case of Coor’s Light.
Mullicious!
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Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, the securities class action law firm indicted last week on fraud charges stemming from corporate lawsuits it filed, made large political contributions almost exclusively to Democrats since 1999, records show.
The firm and individuals there made $2.78 million in campaign donations to Democrats […]
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Good question. CNet nominated Intel’s prototype to its’ “Worst Tech of 2006 (so far)” list. Click on the video to see how it works … oops, doesn’t work.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)USS Bunker Hill, CG-52, off Redondo Beach this morning.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The site http://www.visualcomplexity.com features graphics of complex systems such as social relationships, the web, and spam networks:
Another cool one is a visualization of how over 9,000 musicians are correlated according to their ratings in Yahoo! Music.
Our conspiracy theorist friends from the Charlie Sheen 9/11 comment thread will appreciate this one on the world government:
