Another reason to like Web 2.0. How else would one find a pack of creepy monkey children get killed off one-by-one in various bicycle safety mistakes:
Certainly one of the strangest safety videos ever made.
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We at Independent Sources are unnerved by the sexist coverage of women’s tennis by the media. These are athletes and should be treated as such and not as some eye candy for cheap thrill seeking voyeurs. That said, check out this most outstanding shot of Martina Hingis as she does some kind of tennis thing:
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“nude arianna huffington”
Yes, that’s how a visitor found Independent Sources today. We’re the #9 result because we wrote about Arianna Huffington and nude Australian models on the same day.
Bon voyage, odd person — we wish you well on your quest.
Today was a stellar day for an epic ride and one of the best cycling places in the LA area is Simi Valley. This shot is of the Ronald Reagan Library which was about the 1/2-point of the ride.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In the heart of Malibu and rising from the death trap that is called PCH is a 15 mile 2000+ foot climb called Latigo Canyon. A thoroughly enjoyable ride.
Near the top I came across this sign reminding us all the importance of paying attention in school unless of course you like the kind of job […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Whatever sacrifices were made to the weather gods to ensure a successful inaugural Amgen Tour of California paid off.
What could have been a week of pneumonia-inducing wind and rain instead turned into an extended postcard of spectacular scenery and generally nice weather.
The highlight was stage four, along Highway 1 from Monterey to San Luis Obispo. […]
Off topic:
… A quantum computer program has produced an answer without actually running.
The idea behind the feat, first proposed in 1998, is to put a quantum computer into a “superposition”, a state in which it is both running and not running … With the right set-up, the theory suggested, the computer would sometimes get an […]
Yesterday Independent Sources had almost 6,000 visitors. 5,000 of them came looking for Steve Erhardt “the living Ken doll” who is best known to our readers as the man who willingly received painful butt-implants.
Unfortunately our Google AdSense numbers didn’t scale with the increased activity. Not sure what ads would best be served up to people […]
Lance Armstrong has finally dumped Sheryl Crow–a union that really tested the concept of opposites attract. For starters, he’s 9 years her junior and at 34 he could be dating girls in their 20’s. She’s 43.
Another example, politics. Crow absolutely despises Bush. Armstrong bikes with him.
–”Lance dumped her,” Us says plainly, and most of the […]
Here at Independent Sources South Verizon paid a visit today to install FiOS — their fiber-to-the-home product that promises fast internet connections and, down the road, a competitor to cable and satellite distributors of TV programming.
The good news — it works and it’s fast. Testing using the tools at DSLreports.com, I have a little under […]
Technorati chief David Sifry’s most recent “State of the Blogosphere” post is up:
Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
Over […]
On Tuesday, my pager went off indicating abnormal traffic pattern on Independent Sources. We were getting an unusual amount of search engine traffic for “Holly Ashcraft” as well as other related terms like “USC baby trash.” It turns out that Law & Order was running a show with a plot line mirroring the Ashcraft case. […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Okay, we could come up with about 10 million reasons to not live in Los Angeles including getting shot at by road-raged drivers while stuck in traffic on the 405. But on days like today (sunny, mild temperatures) or last Friday (sunny, warm) when one can ride 40 miles on a beach front bike path […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)If anyone knows a good host for a Wordpress blog, please let us know.
We’ve been with Lunarpages since our inception and have recommended them to many friends. However, they say that Independent Sources is using too much of our shared server’s resources, so we either pay $99 / month for a dedicated box, or move […]
Hope you enjoyed our special anniversary posting:
We couldn’t think of a more appropriate way of celebrating the 1-year anniversary of Independent Sources so all week-end long visitors were met with this server error (pretty cool, huh?).
We’re not sure how we’ll celebrate next year’s anniversary. Perhaps we will take the occasion to infect all visitor’s […]
