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eBay Hoarder Gets Her Own Art Show in Philadelphia

Remember Catherine Keener’s character in The 40-Year-Old Virgin? She bought items, displayed them in her store, and then made people purchase those items on the […]

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How One Philly Man Plans Is Using Google Glasses: Tricking His Infant Child

CBS 3 has tracked down a few (lucky?) Google Glasses winners, who have been selected to receive an advance pair (not for free) via social […]

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Phils’ AAA Team Offers Urine-Powered Video Gaming

Via Yahoo, here is an announcement from the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, alerting the world to their new “urinal gaming system”: (Allentown, PA) – Coca-Cola Park […]

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Top 5 Best Philly Parody Accounts on Twitter

Social media experts and holier-than-thou journalists (ahem) will tell you that Twitter changed the way we receive information. The rest of humanity will tell you […]

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You’ll Never Guess Philly’s Sole Representative on TIME’s “Twitter 140” (Yes You Will)

And the award goes to…D.A. Seth Williams! For his fearless following of pornographic twitter accounts! Oh, nope, sorry that was just me dreaming. The real […]

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Stop Reading Headlines, Start Reading Stories

It amazes me how frequently, in our new media Twitterverse, a perfectly obvious fact becomes controversial. A headline might read, “Beer bottles can be recycled!” […]

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St. Joe’s Sends Out Mass Email Revealing Everyone’s GPA

Transparency is nice and all, but… “Upperclassmen at Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business found out precisely where they stood among their peers when […]

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Jennifer Weiner, Lisa Scottoline, Sold a Lot of E-Books in 2012

Despite newspapers’ barely-budging digital revenues, e-books seemed to be doing just fine in 2012. Leading the charge are Philly favorite daughters Jennifer Weiner and Lisa Scottoline, respective […]

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Coming Soon to Montgomery County: Drone Warfare!

Drones might make everyone a little uncomfortable, but who cares if they bring jobs, right? Well, about 200 of them (jobs, not drones) are coming […]

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Get Ready For Baseball Season With This Rockin’ New Fan-Made Phightin’ Phillies Song

Ever wonder what it would sound like if Blink 182 made sports-themed music? Nathan James is here to give you the answer:

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How 3-D Printers Can End the War on Drugs

Few things demonstrate stoner ingenuity better than the homemade bong. It’s an open-ended problem, requiring only the bare minimum of materials. So long as it […]

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Comcast Is America’s Second-Biggest Advertiser (And That Doesn’t Include The Mailers)

The Inky reports today: “The New York research firm Kantar Media says Comcast uncorked $1.7 billion in ads on consumers in 2012. Procter & Gamble, whose […]

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Cool Photo: Papal Conclave Then and Now

NBC notes the difference eight years makes. (The iPhone was only invented in 2007.) Note the pioneer in the bottom right-hand corner of the 2005 […]

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Penn Staters: Tweet Your Campus Sins Using “PSU Confesses”

Penn State alumni can be a nostalgic bunch, celebrating their alma mater by tailgating at football games, sharing stories at reunions, and even storming trustee […]

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Will Clean for Food! Are You Ready for Time Banking?

  After falling into the habit of spending many consecutive hours in my kitchen on Sundays, cooking one large meal, creating a different soup each […]