Congratulations Mike Guggino You Are Going To See Lee Scratch Perry! Enjoy! The City of Philadelphia’s photo archive contains over 2 million images that date back as far as the late 1800s, i.e. the last time a Republican won in this town. In all seriousness, this is an INCREDIBLE visual record of the city’s evolution and a relatively new web site, PhillyHistory.org, is making it available for online consumption and purchase. To date, some 27,000 images have been digitally scanned, at a rate of roughly 2,000 images a month. So, if you’ve been wondering why the line at Kinko’s is […]
HOT DOC: Inky Editorial Page Ed. Steps Down
Colleagues — In Sunday’s Currents section, the attached column announces my decision to step down as editorial page editor of the paper. I’ll be taking on a new role as a twice-weekly columnist and director of civic engagement, running the Citizen Voices program. I also plan to challenge Dick Polman for the title of Wordiest Blogger on Philly.com. Brian Tierney plans to look at internal and external candidates; I’ll leave the job formally when my replacement is named and settles in, but my hope in the coming weeks is to turn more and more of the decision-making over to the board’s […]
Tierney To Bid On Dow Jones — If There Is Bidding
The company that owns The Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, has expressed interest in joining with outside partners to buy Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of the storied Wall Street Journal. “If there was a formalized bidding process, it would be our intention to participate,” Brian Tierney, chief executive of the company, Philadelphia Media Holdings said this evening. “We would participate as Philadelphia Media Holdings along with other investors. We wouldn’t do it it alone.” Dow Jones has been the object of a $5 billion takeover bid from media baron Rupert Murdoch. Dow Jones has been under siege […]
THE NEW PANIC: Reading Between The Lines Of JFK Terror Plot Indictment
At a certain point, something will go wrong. You may have trouble recruiting other people to collaborate with your very own terrorist, who is, as you yourself know, just an ordinary guy in a really bad mood. Or, alternatively, the terrorist cell you have carefully cobbled together may malfunction and fail to move forward — probably as a result of sheer incompetence or of simply not having been genuinely serious about the acts of terrorism you were urging it to commit. At this point, you may worry that the FBI is going to realize that there isn’t much of a terrorist […]
CHIX WE DIG: You. Go. Girl.
[via PEREZ HILTON] PREVIOUSLY: God Save The Queen
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
In the future we will all live on the Internet, where, abetted by the micro miracles of nanotechnology, we will build vast hive-like colonies within the circuitry of microchips, convert ourselves into JPEGs and climb inside the New Frontier. It will be just like Tron, but with Kraftwerk doing the soundtrack. There will be no need for cars or oil or the wars that come with them, we’ll just attach ourselves to an email and type in the addy to wherever we wanna go; for vast distances, instead of flying, we will simply upload and download ourselves. And, most importantly, […]
REPORT: Global Warming Goes Downtheshore
The Shore: Inundated Boardwalks and Receding Beaches –North Wildwood could be turned into an island, separated from Wildwood Crest by shallow flooding from across New Jersey Avenue. –Cape May Beach would face accelerated erosion, and on average, Shore beaches could retreat inland between 50 and 150 meters. Camden: Water Supply at Risk –Camden could find increasing levels of salt water in its drinking water, since global warming-induced sea-level rise would push the salt front higher up the Delaware River. If the salt front reaches the Camden area, the city may have to shut its water supply wells and find an alternate […]
MEDIA MAN: A Guide To Un-Fucking The Fourth Estate
EXCERPT: “Sometime in the early 2000s, it was clear that the building of American journalism was on fire, and yet we all stood outside on the sidewalk like it was some kind of drill…chatting about last night’s “American Idol” or the Phillies’ inept bullpen. In 2007, we’re finally starting talking about calling the fire department, grabbing some extinguishers and searching for the dead and the missing. But the flames are climbing here into the night. And we are still out there on the sidewalk?talking about it.” ATTYTOOD: If You Can Read This, The Newspaper Business Is Already THIS Fucked
MEDIA: Daily News Gets A New Boss
Executive Vice President Mark Frisby will take over as publisher of the tabloid, Tierney said. Tierney will remain President and CEO of the Daily News. “This shows we’re going to actually step on the gas and invest more in the Daily News,” Tierney said. Brian Tierney — the CEO of the company that owns the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer — announced today that he is appointing a new publisher for the Daily News. Frisby came to the company last fall after serving as publisher of the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J. He will continue to supervise production, […]
MEDIA: From The Dept. Of WHO FUCKIN CARES!?!
THANK YOU CORPORATE MEDIA: For keeping the public distracted, ignorant and preoccupied with insignificance. Your license has been renewed.
WEIRD SCIENCE: This Is A Gravity Wave
Time-Lapse of gravity wave action from the Tama, Iowa KCCI-TV webcam on 6 May 2007
FUNNY PAPERS: CP Announces Comics Issue
Hats off to CP for the funniest post-election cover since the Chicago Daily Tribune‘s DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN! Except CP’s was supposed to be funny — at least we hope so. More to the point of the headline, though, CP Editor Swierczy announces the forthcoming CP Comics Issue and we think this is a fucking capital idea. Here, here.