Someone called for help on the Internet. How did Philadelphia respond?
On Reddit: "Was talking to my bf in Philadelphia (I am in Cleveland OH) when he suddenly started breathing heavily and had trouble speaking and I think he passed out..."
View ArticleYou can watch the price of electricity go up and down in real time.
A new Electricity Price Ticker tracks the real time wholesale electricity price for the PECO area. You can waste a lot of power learning how much power you're wasting.
View ArticleState of Pennsylvania says, 'Stop calling here about your abandoned pigs!'
Not only can this pig rescue group not call Philadelphia for money. They can't even let you adopt one of their abandoned pigs. City law won't let you keep one.
View ArticleLaurel Hill Cemetery offers 'Earth Day' event, laughs creepily.
They're calling it "Nature in the Necropolis: Celebrating Earth Day Amid the Earth-Bound." Tasteful. Plus, they say they'll have pastries! And juice!
View ArticleStart growing giant mustache for Doylestown mustache contest.
Grow one of those massive lip-rugs that guys in old photographs used to wear with deadly serious expressions - waxed handlebar winglets, or droopy, unwaxed soup-strainers,
View Article$5 a day is too much for food, right? Then hooray for government cuts!
In an age of tax cuts and budget battles, we should show everyone how easy it is to live on five bucks a day in the low-budget, low-maintenance hollow of Philadelphia.
View ArticleSeven new historical markers for Philadelphia - seven stories from the past
A starlet's home, America's first Bible Society, a 300-year-old bridge that cars still use, and an early Jewish basketball team that now survives in a surprising form.
View ArticleA beer tap at my own table? ... Where the hell is my waitress?!
New beer taps work like self-service gas pumps. You give the server a credit card, and she opens the table. Two beers later, you decide whether to open the table again.
View ArticleFor Arbor Day, stay inside and look at Philadelphia's tree map.
Yes, for the hundredth time, Arbor Day is an actual thing. But more importantly, the Philly Tree Map gives an interactive map of trees all over town.
View ArticleStained glass from Germantown teens arrives at Drexel University.
Since 2006, teenagers and artist volunteers have been meeting at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown and putting together stained glass windows.
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Someone called for help on the Internet – how did Philadelphia respond?
Are Internet users in Philadelphia good or bad? For a distressed woman in Ohio ... mostly good. At approximately 3 a.m. Monday morning, a woman identifying herself as skc11 posted the following message...
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You can watch the price of electricity go up and down in real time
[caption id="attachment_7062" align="alignleft" width="343" caption="The wholesale price last night at 7:30 p.m. for one megawatt hour of electricity."][/caption] Yesterday at 3:16 p.m., a megawatt of...
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State says, ‘Stop calling here about your abandoned pigs!’
[caption id="attachment_7125" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="One of the rescued pigs at Ironwood Pig Sanctuary. This one's name is Sweet Pea"][/caption] A sanctuary for pot-bellied pigs is...
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Laurel Hill Cemetery offers ‘Earth Day’ event, laughs creepily
[caption id="attachment_7161" align="alignleft" width="360" caption="Getting back to nature. All the way back."][/caption] For Earth Day, just remember that all of us come from the earth - and someday...
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Start growing giant mustache for Doylestown mustache contest
The time to start growing a mustache is now. It's due in a little over a month. Doylestown is holding a contest for the best old-style mustache. It's part of a series of events marking the town's 200th...
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$5 a day is too much for food in Philadelphia, right? Then hooray for...
Five dollars a day for food. That's what a group of elected officials, religious leader and other citizens in and around Philadelphia will be living on until next Monday. Should be a piece of cake....
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Seven new historical markers for Philadelphia – seven stories from the past
[caption id="attachment_7305" align="alignleft" width="334" caption="The 1922 South Philadelphia Hebrew Association Basketball Team"][/caption] A Hollywood starlet's home, America's first Bible...
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A beer tap at my own table in Philadelphia? … Where the hell is my waitress?!
[caption id="attachment_7381" align="alignleft" width="285" caption="Declan Duggan, Sr. VP Sales & Marketing at Ellickson USA, and Josh Goodman, CEO, whooping it up at one of their self-service...
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For Arbor Day, stay inside and look at Philadelphia’s tree map
[caption id="attachment_7434" align="alignleft" width="357" caption="The city as shown on the Philly Treee Map."][/caption] And so it's time for what's bound to become our annual Arbor Day visit to the...
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Stained glass from Germantown teens arrives at Drexel University
[caption id="attachment_7503" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="From the "The Stained Glass Project's" Facebook page."][/caption] Stained glass windows from Germantown High School are now hanging...
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