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Philly.com clearly doesn't pay enough attention to Phillyist. Didn't they learn last week? And so today, you get a two-fer.

Quick! Go to philly.com. Scroll all the way down to the bottom. Check out the poll. (You can see it here, too.) Do you see what sender-inner Wyn saw, leading him to (a) "laugh shamefully hard" and and (b) email Proofreading Philly? That's right. "Justiculations."

Hello, readers, and happy Saturday!

An anonymous Phillyist reader informs us that his IT department at work has issued a stern warning: stay off of Philly.com. The site is apparently infected with malware. That's all we know from our reader, but we'll keep you posted if we hear of any developments.

UPDATE: It looks like we weren't the first people to mention this, as @alrobinson76 got an update up just moments before our post hit Twitter. That being said, we haven't seen any updates since our initial post, and Philly.com seems to be working okay for the Phillyist staff. (That being said, we're mostly Mac-based and less susceptible.) The site's editor has contacted us to ensure us that they'll investigate the report but says they haven't noticed anything on their end. We will continue to update you if we hear anything.

Phillyist Ross sent us the screencap above, from an article published the same day Brian Tierney announced that Philly.com would soon begin charging for content. Although the article has since been corrected, we'd like to suggest that Mr. Tierney gives his proofreaders a raise with the money he hopes to raise on Philly.com. They're obviously a little undercompensated.

• Fees to access Philly.com are coming soon.
• In other news-related news, CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte is no longer under house arrest.
• A dogfighting ring was uncovered in Overbrook, and the bust revealed stashes of drugs and weapons.

We spend a lot of time on Twitter, doing our best to deliver a good mix of our headlines and real-time updates. And, in case you're not following us yet, or aren't on Twitter at all, you should know that ours is a very Twitter-friendly city.That's why we've decided to start a daily post lining up some of the more interesting tweets that fellow Phillyists have pushed out into the statusphere. In most cases, we leave the details to the original tweets, so click through, read, and follow your fellow Philadelphians. But, all alliteration aside, if you're on Twitter and we haven't found you yet, leave a link to your profile in the comments!

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Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar.

Phillyist reader James found these two outstandingly un-proofread headlines on philly.com over the weekend. The first, a spelling error, proves that Hooked on Phonics worked too well for somebody. The second has two words inverted—unless now-former Mets coach Willie Randolph has some sort of legal brief that needs a vacation. Neither error has been corrected—which begs the question: what does philly.com pay its editors to do, anyway?

Phillyist reader Dexter sent us this gem that appeared on philly.com yesterday. We're not entirely sure if it's a typo or a Freudian slip, but whatever it is, it gave us the giggles.

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Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. A friend of Editor Jim's pointed us toward this post on A Thousand Times No which both made for interesting reading and a great Proofreading Philly feature. The last paragraph...

As none other than the New York Times recently reported, Philadelphia's newspaper situation is experiencing a bit of an upswing, or at least a comfortable plateau, compared to the state of things during the vomit-inducing dissipation of Knight-Ridder's ability to hang on to the Inquirer and the Daily News, not to mention the 30 other papers it was forced to sell off last year. Publisher Brian Tierney, whose Philadelphia Media Holdings, LLC acquired the Philly...