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12/12/2007-12/20/2007
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.
Does anybody recognize this particular photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge? I found it on Flickr under a Creative Commons license, but it looks almost identical to one of the opening scenes of "Full House."
Know how, on Thanksgiving, we tend to eat (and decorate with!) a lot of corn?
going out to eat in Philly.
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.
And a hello back to you, news desk. The sports department, not currently being possessed of any other employment, was sleeping in today. In fact, we were just doing the same thing we thought Todd Pinkston might be doing, given that he and Koy Detmer are no longer employed by the Eagles.
Last week, the city of Philadelphia announced that it had a budget surplus of -- everyone put your pinkies to your lips -- $200 million dollars. When the news was announced, City Councilman Jim Kenney said the money should be put aside for a "rainy day fund" and not spent right away, which Mayor Street agreed with.
Rainy Sundays aren't usually good for much. The malls and movie theaters are jammed, the parks in Center City are, shall we say, outdoors, and you can't play baseball.
The Phillyist sports department has been running into a bit of a problem lately. In our continuing quest to write sanely about Philadelphia sports as much as possible, we have been struggling to find photos that aren't copyrighted so we can use them here on the site. To be even more blunt about it, we don't want to get sued by anyone. So all those great photos out there on Flickr that are labeled "All Rights Reserved" are off-limits.
The Eagles lost their first preseason game last night, 16-10 to Oakland in the Hall of Fame Game, and we aren't sure whether to complain or not.