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Leftovers: Welcoming Our New Handbag Overlords

071106handbag.jpg • Today at 30th Street Station (aka Ben Station): The world’s largest handbag! The 22 (width) by 20 (height) by 7 (depth) bag is part of a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Philly non-profit Career Wardrobe and is an attempt to get into the Guiness Book of World Records. Frankly, we’re a little worried it’s for a giant. [Inquirer/It's A Big Dill]

PW managing editor Liz Spikol has begun videoblogging. Fantastic stuff. Look for the “Dan McQuade Plays With Puppies” videoblog to start up any day now. [The Trouble With Spikol]

• One of the four teenagers accused of attempting a Columbine-style attack on New Jersey’s Winslow High School pled guilty today, citing the fact that threatening to shoot up a school is so 1999. [Inky]

• A SW Philly massage parlor was robbed on Sunday night, which led a patron to tell police he had gone there “for a steam.” Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays? [Daily News]

• Philly Future’s current top post is this 684-word opus about a hole in the sidewalk in Ardmore. Truly, citizen journalism has reached its apex. [Philly Future]

• Breaking: Is Fidel Castro dead? [Wonkette]