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Business Idea: Selling Nude Pics Featuring Penn’s Huntsman Hall

There’s your damned entrepreneurship! Via Under The Button comes the story of two Penn students who have taken their studies of capitalism at Wharton Business […]

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Watch Jeffrey Christie Tap Dance His Way Through Philly

Extreme Street Tap Philly from Adam Reynolds on Vimeo. From Vimeo: “Tap Dancer Jeffrey Christie takes to the streets of Philly tearing it up with […]

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Texts from Spring Fling: Behold Penn’s Drunkest Secrets

For three years now, Penn’s gossip-ish blog Under the Button, has published drunken student texts sent during Spring Fling, and in the week immediately following […]

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How Twitter Wrongfully Accused, Then Cleared Bryn Mawr Man of Boston Bombing

  Like many of you, I was up most of the night following the jaw-dropping events in Boston to the best of Twitter’s ability. Between […]

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We Need Surveillance Cameras on Every Corner of Every Major City

It’s been a tough decade or so for civil libertarians. Every big moment in America since 9/11 seems to have brought fresh humiliation for those […]

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Watch: The Best (Worst?) Condom Snorting Videos

If you didn’t already think that the end of the world may finally be upon us, the fact that condom snorting videos have become a […]

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WATCH This Epic “Hyperlapse” Of Philadelphia

Put together by the folks at Moho Creative, it’s just a test for future projects, but the seeming hyperactivity around sturdy old Philadelphia institutions combined […]

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If President Obama Only Reads the New York Times, He’s Like Most Americans

Yesterday, in an article published in The New Republic, an unnamed former Obama adviser mentioned offhandedly that the President reads just one newspaper: The New […]

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Wharton Grad Wants You to Charge Your iPhone Everywhere in Philly

If one Wharton grad’s start-up takes off, your late-night bootycalls may never again be ruined by a dying phone battery. Douglas Baldasare, through his start-up […]

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3 Ways We’ll Communicate in the Future

Ever since Alexander Graham Bell shouted “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you!” into his telephone back in 1876, it seems like mankind […]

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An iPhone App That Lets You “Listen” to Rittenhouse Square

Open toes, picnic blankets, the sun. All have recently made their spring debuts in Rittenhouse Square. So too has an interesting new iPhone app–timed in […]

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Looks Like Inappropriate Twitterer Anthony Weiner Is Making a Comeback

Anthony Weiner, the greatest dick-pic twitterer Congress has ever known, is probably running for Mayor of NYC. A. Because he was a frontrunner in ’09, […]

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Here Are Some Farm Videos Pennsylvania Legislators Don’t Want You To See

Ever seen this video? PETA made it a few years back to document the conditions faced by animals being caged and harvested for their fur. […]

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Anyone Else Still Terrified of Online Banking?

It has actually been a few weeks now since the news first broke about suspected North Korean hackers paralyzing three major banks in South Korea―not […]

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Thursday Could Bring The Birth Of The Facebook Phone

If Forbes is right, Thursday will be the latest Best Day In Tech, Ever—the best one, at least, since the iPad mini was launched last […]