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From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches...

Bostonist has known since college (and repeatedly confirmed at our first office job) that no Internet-researched and keyboard-typed task can be completed without a healthy dose of procrastination. There are lots of very important things to do before you start that pending assignment. You need to check your e-mail (all active accounts), Facebook, myspace, weather forecast, local news, and of course Bostonist.com. One Internet destination that has been dear to our hearts throughout our desk-bound years is www.explodingdog.com. Initially started as a joke by creator Sam Brown, the site has blown up in the past five years and now is expanding into books and art gallery shows. Bostonist ran out of archived illustrations to laugh over during our 9-5 so we e-mailed Sam Brown for an interview to get more information on his explodingdog world. Read on to learn more about this hilarious site, as well as a very disturbing story from his time in Boston.

Image of a katydid, folded by mechanical engineering student Brian Chan. Courtesy MIT News Office