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Home Archives Profile Subscribe 12/20/2013 What Is The Frequency, Kenneth? Here’s one for you conspiracy theorists: Those aluminum hats that protect you from the government’s steady efforts to control your mind through radio signals? They might just amplify the signals. Some guy at MIT did a paper on it. Used Reynolds Wrap. The team worked up designs named Centurion, Classical and Fez. The pictures are impressive. Dec 20, 2013 2:23:10 PM | Science Comment 0 Reblog It 0 12/01/2013 Tom Snyder You loved him or you hated him. Maybe you even did a dead-on impersonation of him, collar out, cigarette waving, voice like a cartoon bear’s? But you watched The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. The former Philly noontime host - yes, Daily Sally has a brush with greatness - is dead at 71. Dec 1, 2013 9:25:05 PM Comment 0 Reblog It 0 Tom Snyder Dec 1, 2013 9:24:26 PM Comment 0 Reblog It 0 03/30/2008 Bookmark This! http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-blinq/ It’s the new url for , which is moving from Typepad to the Inquirer’s publishing system. I am in the process of moving some of my favorite posts over to the new blog. If you go there, you’ll find a moving version of the above image. You might even win a CD. Mar 30, 2008 9:26:00 PM | Web/Tech Comment 0 Reblog It 0 03/27/2008 Not THAT Big Damned Fish! Someone trawling Philly.com for bias at 9:50 this morning might have jumped to the wrong conclusion, seeing the promotional space for blogs. The big damned fish we’re talking about wasn’t Bill Clinton. It referred to the picture that had been there, of a giant striped bass plucked from the Schuylkill. Maybe it’s that the pictures and the display copy update at slightly different paces on the home page, so this was just a momentary thing. We love Bill around here, you know? This was nothing like "Mush From The Wimp." Mar 27, 2008 10:49:00 PM | Poli Sci Comment 0 Reblog It 0 Say Goodbye TO A.J. The Daily Examiner has served up a tasty slice of the local snarkosphere ever since A.J. Daulerio started blogging for the Philadelphia Magazine site one year ago. It was smart, smart-assed and featured, more than anything, good reporting and writing as he developed into a wise guide to what people were typing in these parts. He came from Deadspin. He returns to Deadspin . Which is good, because his bio could not accomodate the names of any more publications .. Maxim, Gawker, Knot, the Black Table, Huffington Post, Deadspin, Oddjack, Deadspin (he likes Deadspin). Today’s his last day. He gets to continue to live in his parent’s gargage. He e-mailed: The printable version is that this is a great opportunity for me and I get to, essentially, have the freedom to do what I want, write what I want, watch sports, and be under the employ of a really great company and a really great friend. There aren’t many jobs you can make a living at under those types of conditions. It’s too good to pass up. Ok, so I want the unprintable version. Meanwhile, here’s a slab of his old roast. Mar 27, 2008 7:26:00 PM | Media Comment 0 Reblog It 0 Big Fish I know you come here for spirited discourse, but how about a picture of a big damn fish? Yes. Lance Butler an aquatic biologist with the Philadelphia Water Department, sent it to me after I was asking after the health of the Schuylkill River. "We’ve had this major resurgence," he said. "It’s loaded with different species. I can give you 45 different species of fishes we’ve surveyed from the Flat Rock Dam to the confluence of the Delaware." So he e-mailed a shot of a big ol’ striped bass they netted from the tidal waters just below the Fairmount Dam. Note the Waterworks in the background. That’s a Center City fish. It weighed about 30 pounds. The reason I was asking? A Comcast show called "City Limits" airs Friday on the Versus network in which championship angler Mike Iaconelli fishes the Schuylkill. He’s done the the East River, the Potomac, The Chicago River. Here, he’s got six hours to catch and release three large-mouth and two small-mouth bass as the camera rolls and the clock ticks. If you are a YouTube fan or watch fishing on cable TV you might recognize the Philly-born Iaconelli, who moved to Runnemede, N.J., when he was five and has fished the Schuylkill for a quarter century. The videos have titles like "Never Give Up!" and "Never Leave the Boat!" He is an excitable boy. Think the Jim Cramer of anglers. One such video begins with him screaming "Big one! Big One! Oh my God! This is a giant!" as he reels in a scrappy bass, a species he calls "a little ball of muscle." That particular catch won him the 2003 Bassmaster Classic on the Delta. He’s a big fish himself. In person he is much more low key. I met him along the Waterworks Tuesday afternoon as the sun was low over the expressway and a dozen or so young men in hoodies fished for catfish. Iaconelli was touting the virtues of urban fishing - how the remnants of the river’s industrial past creates challenging nooks and crannies in which fish gather to feed or hide from predators like Iaconelli (pronounced Ike-o-nelli). The challenge, he says, is picking among the 20 or casts he knowsor make up new ones on the spot to sneak his bait next to the sewer outflows and bridge pilings and barge ties and entice a hungry fish. Below us the noise from the young fishermen rises. Someone has a hooked a channel catfish, a two or three pounder. "These are city kids who love to fish, Iaconelli enthuses. "It’s what I’m talking about. Look at his face. He’s using a spinner rod. I went out on this river with a $50,000 speed boat that does 70 miles per hour. Here you’ve got kids with equipment that doesn’t cost $50. "Look at his tackle box. It’s tagged with graffiti! That’s urban fishing right there!" So back to the big damed bass. A beautiful fish, but could you eat it? Not so much, says Mike Kaufmann of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission. The state has issued a health advisory for stripers pulled from the tidal portions of the Schuylkill River. The commission recommends that no one eat more than eight ounces of the fish. A month. Which means that baby could safely feed a few dozen of your closest friends. Mar 27, 2008 4:29:00 PM Comment 0 Reblog It 0 03/26/2008 Snipery in Bosnia Go to the American Debate if you want well-considered words on Hillary Clinton’s "misspeaking" about having been under fire when she landed in Bosnia in 1996. But stay here if you want to see newly discovered video of just how battle-tested she really was back in the day. Mar 26, 2008 12:18:00 PM | Hunting News Comment 0 Reblog It 0 03/25/2008 Big Fish I know you come here for spirited discourse, but how about a picture of a big damn fish? Yes. Lance Butler an aquatic biologist with the Philadelphia Water Department, sent it to me after I was asking after the health of the Schuylkill River. "We’ve had this major resurgence," he said. "It’s loaded with different species. I can give you 45 different species of fishes we’ve surveyed from the Flat Rock Dam to the confluence of the Delaware." So he e-mailed a shot of a big ol’ striped bass they netted from the tidal waters just below the Fairmount Dam. Note the Waterworks in the background. That’s a Center City fish. It weighed about 30 pounds. The reason I was asking? A Comcast show called "City Limits" airs Friday on the Versus network in which championship angler Mike Iaconelli fishes the Schuylkill. He’s done the the East River, the Potomac, The Chicago River. Here, he’s got six hours to catch and release three large-mouth and two small-mouth bass as the camera rolls and the clock ticks. If you are a YouTube fan or watch fishing on cable TV you might recognize the Philly-born Iaconelli, who moved to Runnemede, N.J., when he was five and has fished the Schuylkill for a quarter century. The videos have titles like "Never Give Up!" and "Never Leave the Boat!" He is an excitable boy. Think the Jim Cramer of anglers. One such video begins with him screaming "Big one! Big...