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Why We Love Drunken Facebook Pics, Online Reviews and Gangnam Style
By Sandy Hingston 5/24/2013
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Congratulations! Your new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, is really catching on.
Thanks. The Today Show just called and wants me for an interview.
You’re the only person I ever heard say you watch TV for the commercials, not the shows.
It’s true. I was watching with my family recently, and they had the commercials muted so they could talk. I asked them to turn them back on. When I was in college, I used to duct-tape ads I liked all over my dorm room’s walls.
Actually, Tom Corbett Has One Latino Staff Member
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/23/2013
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Calm down lefty media hyperventilators! After you all jumped down Tom Corbett's throat for his comment about having no Latino staff members, the Governor's people put out a press release smack-down, pointing out that in fact they've actually got ONE Latino staffer, Maria Montero, the Director of the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs.
I would have published this sooner, but I was waiting from a response from Corbett's people confirming that there's really no one else. In fairness, the administration also used to employ preternaturally grumpy Eli Aliva as Secretary of Health and nominated Ken Trujillo for Commissioner of the PLCB.
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Remember When 31 Flavors of Ice Cream Was a Novelty?
By Christopher Moraff 5/23/2013
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Internet Sales Tax Won’t Stop Me From Online Shopping
By Beth Capriotti 5/22/2013
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The Marketplace Fairness Act is a bill that aims to “level the playing field” between online retailers and brick and mortar stores. Most online retailers don't have to collect state sales tax from buyers in states where they have no physical presence (like a retail store, warehouse or distribution facility). Changing that could be a windfall for state tax revenues and could change the retail landscape. Or will it?
Tesla Opens First PA Car Dealership at KOP Mall
By Jason Fagone 5/22/2013
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NY High School Bans “Assassin” Game, Completely Misses Point
By Brian Howard 5/21/2013
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Isn’t is just adorable when adults stumble onto some fun thing their kids do, a thing that that they don’t understand, and then make that thing completely irresistible by telling their kids they can’t do it?
WATCH: The Rocky Training Montage. With Puppets.
By Joel Mathis 5/20/2013
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Some truth: There are few days that go by that somebody on the Internet doesn't post video of their jog up the "Rocky" steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It's a cliché, but one that's apparently good for the city's tourism dollars, so hey: Who's complaining.
Still, it's fun to see an original take on the "Rocky training montage" genre of Internet videos. Like this one. With puppets. And an alternate ending.
Beck Puppets - "Philly" from keith megna on Vimeo.
Don’t Be Surprised by Dept. of Justice’s AP Probe
By Nick Vadala 5/17/2013
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As the immortal hip hop duo Mobb Deep rapped back in 1995, “ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks.” In "Shook Ones Pt. II," Prodigy warns, if you “speak the wrong words, man you will get touched.”
Given the actions of the Department of Justice this past week, it seems like they might know a little bit about that. In response to a report from the Associated Press in May of last year regarding a foiled bombing plot in Yemen, the DOJ launched a two-month-long probe into the AP’s phone records, netting communications information from more than 100 reporters and editors across multiple bureaus, according to AP estimates. In some cases, the secret probe extended to home and cell phone records as well, so the investigation was thorough.
Nooooo! Is Kai the Viral Internet Sensation Hitchhiker Really Wanted for Murder?
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/16/2013
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Today, officials in Union County said Kai, whose real name Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, is wanted in the bludgeoning death of a North Jersey attorney. He is considered armed and dangerous. According to police, he was last seen at a PATCO stop in Haddonfield.
How Far Is Too Far With Photoshop?
By Christopher Moraff 5/16/2013
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On Tuesday, Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, winner of the 2012 World Press Photo award for best picture, was vindicated of charges that his winning image was a “fraudulent forgery” following weeks of mudslinging by a handful of photo-purists who took issue with the way the picture was created. The striking photograph, which depicts a group of Palestinians mourning two young victims of an Israeli missile strike, raised a stink due to its creative use of toning and Hansen's reliance on post-production processing techniques to add an emotive quality to the work.
In a strongly worded rebuke published on the photography blog
