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Philadelphians: Prepare for a Truly Epic Game of Pong
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/04/2013
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Not beer pong, you alcohol-obsessed people! 70s-style electro paddle pong. Which makes sense, because the occasion for the giant game is Philly Tech Week, taking place in late April. Here's how the tournament will work: Register to play before April 12th (fewer than 100 admitted), then head to the Art Museum steps on April 19th and April 24th, where the game will be projected on the 437-foot Cira Centre, across the Schuylkill.
Frank Lee, a Drexel Professor who co-founded the school's Game Design Program, is the brains behind the operation. Here's a refresher course, for those of you who weren't alive
Jill Kelley Breaks Her Silence
By Timothy Haas 11/28/2012
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General-Befriending "Former Philadelphian" Jill Kelley Releases Emails and Recordings to Clear Her Name. Or more likely so that we would have to start talking about her again. Oh! Well played. [Associated Press]
Firefighters Dis Boss at City Council Hearing. Charging that a plan to begin regular reassignments of firehouse personnel would endanger public safety, members of the firefighters union heckled their own commissioner, Lloyd Ayers, during an informational session in Council yesterday. [Inquirer]
Leaked Ticket-Fixing Report Roils State Supreme Court. Looks like the public wasn't supposed to see the fruits of an investigation into our Traffic Court, commissioned by Chief Justice Ron
You Will Lose Your Smartphone in Philadelphia
By Joel Mathis 11/09/2012
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Philadelphia tops the list of cities where your smartphone is most likely to go missing—whether through theft or simple misplacement or your child being devious. According to Lookout.com, which compiled the original report, the top 3 places in Philadelphia to lose a smartphone are the automotive shop, pizza place, and church. Which, yes, sounds like sampling of the richness that is Philly. While the Huffington Post sees this as a reason to make lots of Will Smith jokes (apparently making Rocky references didn't feel stale enough) this news is an excellent opportunity to let you know that a lost iPhone
Philly’s Loren Brichter Hits iPhone Game Jackpot With Letterpress
By Joel Mathis 10/26/2012
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Forget Words With Friends. Everybody knows that the hot word game for the iPhone is Letterpress—which, yes, was released only two days ago but has already climbed to No. 14 on iTunes' rankings of free apps. The New York Times reports that the game is the brainchild of Loren Brichter, a 27-year-old app developer from Philadelphia, who previously gained fame as the creator of Tweetie, a popular Twitter app for the iPhone that was actually purchased by Twitter in 2010. Brichter isn't sure if game development is his future. “It all depends on whether this sticks,” he said of the game
Redbox DVD Machines Selling Concert Tickets Only in Philadelphia
By Victor Fiorillo 10/04/2012
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The next time you hit up a Redbox DVD rental machine in Philadelphia, you'll also be able to pick up tickets to a big name concert, like Carrie Underwood, who is coming to Wells Fargo Center on November 28th. Well, to be more accurate, you can buy the tickets at the Redbox machine, but you'll have to print them at home, which is totally lame.
Other Redbox events include the Pocono 400 race and Philadelphia Film Festival's screening of the upcoming Bradley Cooper film, The Silver Linings Playbook. In this new pilot program, currently only in Philadelphia, service charges amount to
Why Philly Will Never Be a Start-up Hub
By Gene Marks 10/04/2012
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Last weekend was Startup Weekend in Philly, and no offense to the great companies who competed (and to voxx.io, the winner of the competition), but I’m not sure many people noticed. I’m not surprised. Vanity Fair released its list of 50 visionaries recently, and no one from the area was on it. The occasional article runs about the Philly start-up scene but never creates much of a stir. People continue to try and create a buzz that we’re a start-up hub.
Those Annoying Political Posts on Facebook Aren’t Going Away
By Larry Atkins 9/21/2012
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For many adults, this is the first Facebook Presidential election. This means that many of us and our Facebook friends are posting politically oriented content. To some extent, I'm guilty of it in that I share links to articles that I've written, many of which are politically oriented with a liberal slant, on Facebook.
However, to what extent is it OK to post political articles and content on Facebook, especially when many people are on Facebook for business reasons, for sharing personal photos and family information, for telling people they're at Reading Terminal Market eating a hoagie, or for announcing that they like
Philly 311 Turns Urban Complaints Into High-Tech Gossip
By Brian Howard 9/18/2012
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A lot has been made in the last week about the city’s new (and long-awaited) 311 app. The free app, available for Android, iOS and Blackberry devices, allows anyone with a smartphone or tablet to put a very public bug in the city’s ear about, well, anything it wants—a cracked pavement, a noisy neighbor, illegally locked bicycles, illegally parked cars, you name it. The app is essentially a skinned version of an app called “Public Stuff,” which was developed by a company of the same name and which is used in a bunch of other municipalities across the country.
For all
Ronald Reagan Hologram Almost Appeared At GOP Convention
By Joel Mathis 8/31/2012
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You kids are probably too young to remember Ron Headrest, the Max Headroom-like virtual version of President Ronald Reagan that existed only in Doonesbury cartoons back during the 1980s. But the technology is closer to real: Yahoo News reports that a Ronald Reagan hologram very nearly made an appearance at this week's Republican National Convention—courtesy of the same guys who brought you the Tupac hologram at Coachella. But Mitt Romney's representatives put the kibosh on that idea, apparently worrying it would overshadow their candidate. "At the time he hadn't chosen Paul Ryan, so I think they were a little worried about
Pandora and YouTube Will Live Stream Made In America
By Victor Fiorillo 8/29/2012
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Don't have a ticket to this weekend's Made In America Festival, featuring headliners Jay-Z and Pearl Jam and 25 or so other bands, performers and DJs? Have no fear, because MIA will be live streamed. Just received the following communique from City Hall:
Today, Budweiser in partnership with YouTube and Pandora announced its plan to deliver live webcasts and music streams of the Budweiser Made in America Festival. The live streams on You Tube and Pandora can be accessed via www.youtube.com/BudMadeInAmerica or www.pandora.com/BudMadeInAmerica, on Saturday, Sept. 1 and Sunday, Sept. 2, from 2 to
