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With the release of their high quality (well, 96k) stream, I’ve been listening to XPN, the best FM music station in Philadelphia, and my once former place of employ, quite a bit more. The station dropped the pretense of being commercial free a few years ago but the few commercials you do hear are fairly [...]

There are a lot of links in my blogroll to the right, but if I were to recommend one single political link I would send you to The Cunning Realist, “an oasis for the intellectual honesty in a world of hired spin”. I picked him up off kos and have been reading since his first [...]

New kid in town (hey, we’re in our 4th month, let us act old), Phillyist, part of the Gothamist blog empire, has just opened its doors and is already producing lots of varied and interesting content with a Philadelphia inclination. Check out some of the choice posts in just the last day: Phillial: Interview with [...]

Skaroffblog.blogspot.blogger.blog.com is not a rubberstamp for the DNC. With that said, this is a good opportunity to hear directly from the Senate leader on the DEMS strategy re: supreme court hearings, etc. You can RSVP to be on a 4:30 PM EDT. call with Senator Reid and to get his take on what’s happening inside [...]

The past year has seen a wave of over-empowered Republican conservatives seeking to crack down on what they see as pervasive “liberal bias” in many aspects of our society. Recently, Kenneth Tomlinson, the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an entity that is designed to buffer public broadcasting from politicalization, hired a consultant with [...]

Karl Rove is fat and that is non-negotiable. However, it seems increasingly clear that another non-negotiable point is that Karl W. Rove did play a role in leaking a CIA agent’s name to another tubby DC-insider Bob Novack. If you are having a bad day and need to laugh just check out this video (thanks [...]

No comment is really necessary for this story: BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. workers say they squander over two hours a day at the workplace, with surfing the Web, socializing with co-workers and simply “spacing out” among the top time-wasting activities, according to a survey released on Monday. Most U.S. companies assume about an hour of [...]

I find myself now sitting at my desk with nothing to say for once. It’s not that there is nothing out there in the world to blog about. The Hotline’s new Blogometer, a daily summary of what’s going on in the blogosphere, shows that people are busy talking about the London bombing, Valerie Plame, CAFTA, [...]

Horrible day in London today. It appears that there were at least 7 distinct attacks including the tube and one double decker bus. NYT is reporting over 1000 wounded and at least 33 dead so far at 12:28 pm EST. I’m reading that cell phone networks are understandably overburdened in the city right now but [...]

If you’ve been reading for a while you know I’m both overly impressed and a bit obsessed with Google and its continually expanding treasure trove of new web technologies. I rave about Gmail (ask me for an invite if you’d like an account), and I love to show off Google Maps to anyone who hasn’t [...]