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From this morning’s Post, a delightfully breathless story about how cold it was this weekend:
Many Washingtonians exulted in a sunny Saturday, but their delight came on a day that could also be described as the coldest since March.
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But about eight hours earlier, the mercury had dipped to 35 degrees. It had not fallen so low [...]
Not exactly breaking news, but I finished my bike. It’s now immortalized in the Great Shrine of the Fixed-Gear Bicycle, FGG (number 10,280). This thing makes getting around the city much, much more fun.
(Link: photo from flickr)
So I’m moving to DC soon, and in preparation I’ve been scoping out DC-oriented blogs. There are certainly plenty out there: the Washington Post of course, and DCist, as well as more Columbia Heights-specific things like Prince of Petworth and New Columbia Heights. But my favorite so far is ReadysetDC, which has a [...]
Slate has a great and somewhat snarky review of east-coast Chinatown busses and their competitors, with and eye to towards the predilections of hipsters, or maybe just the young and not-yet-wealthy. Money quote: “If you can still appreciate the charm of cracking open a $2 beer, you will find much to appreciate about budget [...]
Freelance science and health journalist and mental_flosser Maggie Koerth-Baker is guest-blogging at boing boing. So far she’s got posts on how to colonize a nation, a proposed expedition to the center of the earth, and Scutigera coleoptrata, the house centipede (including such fun facts as
2) Scutigera Coleoptrata are Efficient: They’re actually capable of eating [...]
He lost his leg because he sacrificed it to save a kid from getting run down by a truck on the cruel, cruel streets of New York City. Was homeless for a while, and then someone gave him a bike. Now he is gainfully employed, and probably the chillest [...]
Looks like we are baby-stepping towards the singularity:
An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain’s ability to learn more closely than any other machine.
Although the chip [...]
I have become suddenly and completely smitten with the idea of cloud computing, which as far as I can tell is just a fancy way of saying “just trust Google with all of your data.” Highlights include:
Having email and AIM/gchat all in a single, shiny web interface that will likely run at the speed [...]
You might be asking yourself, “why does this photo look like it was taken on two different pieces of film taped together?” to which I would respond, because it was. You might also be asking yourself “aero bars? srsly?” to which I would respond, “there is a place for everyone, even aero bars… just [...]
Magic Hat, one of my favorite (and most local!) breweries, is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/magichat/
The best part of their feed is the fun little rhyming slogans that make varying degrees of sense (“Do Not Stroll Through An Open Hole”?) and, I imagine, will eventually make it onto the undersides of their bottle caps (if they aren’t [...]
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