The University of Pennsylvania has posted the numbers for this year’s New Student Orientation, a.k.a. NSO, and alcohol-related hospital transports went up 76 percent over […]
Who the heck is John Gruber? The Philadelphia writer just might be one of the most influential tech journalists around, which means he’s getting the […]
If you attended Penn State’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences in 1998, 2002 or 2004, then you might get a surprise in your inbox […]
Are you ready to have your computing world rocked again? Two weeks ago, Seattle-based e-tail leviathan Amazon sent out an announcement that rightly sent tremors […]
For a country that consumes such a huge amount of electronic devices and media, you’d think that the United States is so web-connected that we’re […]
Looks like the Joker won’t be poking Princess Peach again any time soon: Facebook admins have finally gone after the social network’s most insidious sub-group: […]
In the wake of such tragedies as the shooting in Aurora, Colorado and the Norwegian mass murder, some have insinuated that a person’s social media […]
If you were offered the chance to live forever, would you take it? What about if your chance at immortality came from a 31-year-old Russian […]
When you order a “skim milk” latte at Starbucks, you have Shakespeare to thank. That’s right, he’s the one who first penned the word “skim […]
It’s time to do something different—radically different—to save Philadelphia’s major daily newspapers. This is just a rough estimate, but the Inquirer and Daily News in […]
Last weekend, Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses and Inspections, an agency not usually known for its transparency and user-friendliness, unveiled a new web app that displays […]
Other than constantly feeling like I am going to get in trouble, the only thing Catholic school ever gave me is the ability to tell […]
Global warming must be frying our brains, yo, because there’s been a rash of incidents of blatant Twitter stupidity in the past few weeks. Just […]
The head-down zombies are everywhere. You can spot them half a block away. Unaware of the world around them, coming right at you; but for […]
A couple of weeks ago, my wife came to me and told me that the father of one of my son’s classmates from last year’s […]
