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What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Paranormal State (Mon, 10PM-11PM, A&E) - The debut of a new reality show featuring members of Penn State University's Paranormal Research Society investigating reports of paranormal phenomena. During this hour, they seem to be playing two episodes, one about a boy who can supposedly see dead people, and another about a supposedly haunted house where murders were committed. Independent Lens (Tue, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - It's another Penn...

Hey there, readers! I'm back liveblogging the second day of the First Annual BlogPhiladelphia "unconference." This post will be constantly updating throughout the day, so it's going to stay at the top of the Phillyist main index. But be sure to scroll down for the rest of our regular content, and see full liveblog after the jump! (Meanwhile, forgive us any resulting funny HTML, folks. We're fixing mistakes as soon as we find them.)

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.

Ladies and gentlemen, the full definition of Social Media, according to Wikipedia (since, you know, it's infallible):

NBC News tells the truth about the Iraq violence

- Last week it was identity theft, this week's crime - dealing illicit prescription drugs.
- And speaking of drug-dealing - what's worse than getting picked up by the cops for alleged drug trafficking? Maybe getting picked up for having "weapons of mass destruction" when the cops come to your apartment and find you have "a two-liter plastic soda bottle, covered with duct tape, with a several-inch long fuse sticking out of the spout" - or, a "condom bomb." Whatever that is. All we know is that no one wants to be around when a condom explodes unexpectedly.
- Poor Rocky. The placement of his effigy is once again under debate. To add insult to injury, journalists are using this battle as an excuse to trot out their limited boxing lingo in all the headlines.
Image credit: Flickr user trec_lit

- PhillyBits has a few words say about the President's self-proclaimed best and worst moments in his presidency. (And really, when the best moment of a president's term has to do with a recreational pursuit, few words are necessary.)

The "Greatest Generation" may have had Walter Winchell, but many compatriot's of Phillyist's generations trusted someone else to give us the news in trying times: Peter Jennings. Therefore, we are especially pleased to learn that Philadelphia's own National Constitution Center will be using a portion of their grant from the Annenberg Foundation to create the Peter Jennings Institute for Journalists and the Constitution.

Writing for an online journal, one does not get to bring mighty machines to a screeching halt by shouting "Stop the Presses!" when we come upon a new piece of information; which is sad, really, because it always looks like so much fun when those fast-talking, wise-cracking, fedora-wearing journalists in the movies do it. Some times Phillyist really wishes we were still in the days when the world was black and white. Or that we were fast-talking, wise-cracking ,journalists. Or, at the very least, that we had a fedora. We look good in a hat.

Dr. Drew Pinsky is mad. About the Discovery Channel, no less.

We've passed the era where we'd start new blog posts with something along the lines of, "If you haven't noticed, everyone has a blog now." Cause let's face it, everyone has two blogs now. Except, well, the 76ers. But they do have one.

Tomorrow the hordes will descend on the Parkway to enjoy music and what will no doubt be an very close closeness with their fellow man, as Philadelphia hosts one of the 10 worldwide Live 8 concerts.