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The Worst Ways to Choose a Computer Password

My son Jake came home from college this weekend to watch the Super Bowl with us — I think because he likes my guacamole. The […]

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Why Do Trolls Especially Hate Women?

If you’re a reasonably well-adjusted person, you probably don’t spend much time in the comments sections of local news stories — maybe not any time at […]

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ESPN Unbundles from Cable. Can Comcast Compete?

One thing that’s kept cable from going the way of the music industry in recent years, observers agree, is this: Hulu, Netflix, and other mainstream […]

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Pa. Supreme Court Cancels Justice McCaffery’s State-Provided Internet, Takes His Computers

There’s a lot about the temporary removal of Justice Seamus McCaffery from the court that almost makes you want to send pornographic emails at work. […]

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Our Prayers Are Answered: HBO Plans Netflix-Style Service

Are you the kind of person who would like to pay for HBO and not, like, everything else on cable? Then today’s a good day […]

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10 Commenter Tropes That Should Get You Banned From the Internet

If it were up to me, we’d just call it a failed experiment, like New Coke or Lindsay Lohan’s music career. We tried it. It […]

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“Daddy in Seat 16C” Is from the Jersey Shore

The viral item du jour is a letter one woman published on her blog, thanking an anonymous guy in a suit for being such a sweet airplane […]

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Kai the Homeless Hitchhiker Pleads Not Guilty

Remember Kai the Homeless Hitchhiker and Viral Internet Sensation Who Allegedly Killed a Guy in Jersey and Then Tried to Escape from the Greyhound Station […]

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Philly’s Google Zeitgeist: Here’s What We Searched for Every Single Day of 2013

We are about to be inundated by 2013 Year-in-Review videos, articles, blogs, cable shows and radio marathons. The most interesting review is already out – […]

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NBC 10 Sends Weekend’s Most Inappropriate Weather-Related Tweet

The good folks at Reddit flagged this one before NBC 10 had time to scrub it.

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7 Reasons Amazon Drones Are The Dumbest Idea I’ve Ever Heard

You’ve heard about Amazon drones, the Seattle-based e-tail giant’s new idea to use drones to deliver packages on the same day to customers, particularly those […]

City Life

VIDEO: A Dude Randomly Hugging People on Independence Mall

A man hugging strangers. And sometimes getting rejected. On Independence Mall. That is all.

City Life

Somebody Recreated Philly’s City Hall in Minecraft

Using Minecraft, an award-winning update on Sim City, some architectually savvy Redditor has created a pretty accurate rendering of Philadelphia’s City Hall. It’s great, except it’s […]

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Kai The Homeless Hitchhiker Indicted for Murder

Kai the Homeless Hitchhiker Cult Hero, who became famous for hitting a guy in a head with a hatchet, has now been indicted for the […]

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A GIF of Eddie Vedder Falling Down During His Philly Concert

This happened during Tuesday’s Pearl Jam show at the Wells Fargo Center, much to the misguided amusement of long-sleeved blue shirt over there.