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Even Jim Gardner takes selfies now
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Generation Selfie: Are We Now Officially Celebrating Narcissism?

As a freelance journalist, I spend a lot of time on Twitter promoting my work, reading other people’s, and — like most everyone else these […]

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YouTube Flashback: “Buddy’s Watching You”

This just got posted to YouTube today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lgB1_bY0g

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Philly’s 29-Story Game of Pong Enters Record Books

Remember last spring when visitors to the Philadelphia Museum of Art could play the old Atari game “Pong” on the side of the Cira Center […]

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Why I’m Sending Real Old-Timey Christmas Cards This Year

I bought three boxes of Christmas cards over the weekend. I don’t always get around to sending cards — they take such a long time […]

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The Upper Darby Police Facebook Page Has Won the Internet

Over the weekend, Philadelphia comic great Chip Chantry sent me a link for the Upper Darby Police Facebook page. Being that the link was coming […]

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WATCH: Philly Caterers Go Crazy in Slo-Mo

This is fun: NACE Philadelphia members sample the Slow Motion Video Booth SlowMoCinema from CinemaCake Filmmakers on Vimeo.

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Your Cell Phone Is Stealing Your Soul

“Do you remember,” my husband said in the middle of yesterday’s Eagles game, apropos of nothing, “how when you used to call a friend’s house, […]

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Au Contraire, Marriage is For You

First thing’s first: I’m sure that Seth Adam Smith is a really, really nice guy. If you’ve seen the pictures on his website and read […]

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UPDATE: City Paper Is Out of Twitter Jail

UPDATE: After more than 24 hours on some sort of Twitter spam list, the City Paper‘s Twitter operations are now back to normal. It looks […]

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Would You Let Apple Babysit Your Child?

In India, a 17-year-old girl committed suicide after her parents restricted her use of Facebook and her cell phone use. And though it sounds extreme […]

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Yes, Philadelphia, Your Cell Phone Service Sucks

Here’s the bad news Philadelphia: A new study suggests that cell service here is the worst among America’s 10 biggest cities.

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Handyman 2.0?

So, you need that coffee table from Ikea assembled? Hot soup delivered to your sick brother? The next cubicle wrapped in cling wrap on April […]

Best Philadelphian Dain Saint of Cipher Prime Studios. Photo for Philadelphia magazine by Nell Hoving.
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Tech Funding Up in Philly For First Time Since 2008

Biz Journal reports: “Even as technology funding declined nationwide last year, investment in Greater Philadelphia technology companies rose for the first time since 2008. About $698 […]

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DA Says Coatesville District Resisting Racist Text Investigation

NBC 10 reports that Chester County District Attorney Tom Hogan is accusing the Coatesville School District of  dragging its feet on his investigation into the racist texts […]

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Man Uses Internet for First Time

The smartest show on the radio right now is WNYC’s On the Media, and OTM’s smart people have launched a smart podcast called TLDR. The […]