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10 Commenter Tropes That Should Get You Banned From the Internet

If it were up to me, we’d just call it a failed experiment, like New Coke or Lindsay Lohan’s music career. We tried it. It […]

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Game Makes Philly Geography Fun

Via Reddit comes one of the more addicting games we’ve played in awhile: GeoGuessr drops you (digitally) in a random spot in Philly and asks […]

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Get Off My Phone? Get Off My Ass!

A few years ago, after receiving some bad directions from a man with a cool accent, I found myself embarrassingly lost in New Orleans’ French […]

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Comcast Rep From Hell Placed on Leave

.@Ryan we are sorry & embarrassed by what happened. We're determined to be better. We clearly have more work to do. http://t.co/keQQM14KKr — Comcast (@comcast) […]

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Comcast Rep Unloads “Customer Retention” Napalm on Innocent Couple

UPDATE, 7/15, 8 p.m.: The rep has been placed on administrative leave while the company investigates the incident. ORIGINAL: If you’ve been thinking about changing […]

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The 10 Stupid Internet News Stories I Keep Reading

The news of the world as brought to me via the Internet tends to be a roundup of humans doing seriously stupid things. And you […]

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’Murrican as Apple Pie

’Merica. ’Murrica. ’Mericuh. Our most recent Independence Day weekend brought them out, in intentionally butchered droves — cheekily edited versions of our great country’s name, accompanied […]

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Tom Corbett Just Gave Everybody the Finger

So this went viral in Pennsylvania late on Thursday: Why is Tom Corbett giving everyone the finger? pic.twitter.com/ybm2REes4P — Brian P. Hickey (@BrianPHickey) July 10, […]

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Awesome Philly Blog: Say Hello to “Oh, Hello Window Cat”

Jackie Palmer would like it to be stated, for the record, that she has only one cat — one lone, singular, solitary, individual cat, a […]

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Dear Inky: I Got It Wrong

I get it wrong sometimes. I was wrong back in January 2013. At the time, new ownership had taken over at the Inquirer and Daily […]

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SCOTUS Rules Against Aereo Streaming TV, Handing Comcast a Win

“In a decision with implications for the television industry, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Aereo, a start-up streaming service, violated copyright laws by […]

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10 Emojis Philadelphia Needs Right Now

Sometimes, words just aren’t enough. Other times, words are just too much. That’s where emojis — little cartoon icons that can be used in text […]

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“No Body Talk” Summer Camps: Is This a Good Thing?

Last week the New York Times ran an article on a couple of summer camps that enforce a “no body talk” rule. As one such […]

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Philadelphia Cabs Debut New Uber-Like Payment App

The first cab driver I asked about the new Way2Ride payment app for Philadelphia taxicabs had no idea what I was talking about. The second […]

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Lenfest Appoints Interim Philly.com Editor

Any print devotee who hoped against hope the new ownership of Interstate General Media might let Philly.com whither and die — or at least fade […]