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How Facebook Is Killing Fashion

When it comes to Facebook, there are many opportunities to scroll back through your profile and feel regret. I think we could fill no less […]

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The Best Part of the Great 2011 Blackberry Outage

For three days last week, Blackberry users were pissed—and justifiably so. Last week, Blackberries all over the world stopped functioning. The outage surprised millions of […]

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Texting and Dating: How to Navigate Relationships in the Digital Age

Dear Monica, How do you know when texting is becoming too much? — O.S., Center City Texting can be a great way to enhance budding […]

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Why You Still Love Netflix After This Qwikster Screwup

Remember when you loved Netflix? Even you—what they call the “hidebound, skeptical Philadelphian who balks at anything new” (because what was so wrong with the […]

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The Kindle Hasn’t Erased All Hope for Books

Since I’ve been a bibliophile since childhood, my nirvana is this scene: my own town of Collingswood, 200 book stalls, tents set up for readings […]

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Will the Kindle Make Me Forget Hardcover Books?

So about a million years after everyone else, I just got a Kindle. It was a birthday gift from my fiance, and a truly great […]

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Q&A: Black Hawk Down Author Mark Bowden

On Tuesday, the man who wrote Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo released his newest non-fiction work, Worm: The First Digital World War (Atlantic Monthly […]

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Blogging Isn’t Just for Geeks, Foodies and Troublemakers

I saw the movie Contagion this weekend, and I loved it. I’m a sucker for international thrillers, which is pretty much what the Steven Soderbergh […]

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Nicole Cashman Loves Philly.com’s Android Tablet

Over at Philly.com today, one of the featured “news” items in the home page marquee is a strange little video by the site’s gossip gal, […]

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What’s Lost With the DC Comics Digital Reboot

Comic book geeks have a special love for Wednesdays—it’s the day the shelves of their favorite comic shop are filled with new releases. Today’s arrivals […]

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LBI’s Last Gasps of Summer Vacation

So, I’m in Beach Haven on LBI this week and at one point, I thought I was going to write about the $4 cupcakes at […]

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LBI’s Last Gasps of Summer Vacation

So, I’m in Beach Haven on LBI this week and at one point, I thought I was going to write about the $4 cupcakes at […]

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PIN and Teller

I took a little tiny baby step toward modernity the other day. I signed up for online banking. I know, I know. You did that […]

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My Days Aren’t Numbered

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have shown that children as young as three, with no formal schooling or training, can have an innate “number sense” […]

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My Days Aren’t Numbered

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have shown that children as young as three, with no formal schooling or training, can have an innate “number sense” […]