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Post-election Results Update: Fenty has the Democratic mayoral nomination in the bag, Norton is still Congresswoman, Vincent Gray edged out Patterson for Council Chair, Mendelson thoroughly trounced Bolden, Wells got much of Ward 6, Panetta is Shadow Rep, and Shadow Senator went to the Other Michael Brown. NBC4.com has the tally, and more from DCDL, […]
(For some reason, I’ve been getting repeated Ask.com hits for “What is a planet?” even though the Demote Pluto entry has slid off the front page. Askers, this entry is for you.) The word “Planet” comes from the Greek “planetos,” meaning “wanderer,” for how they seemed to move independently of the stars. In a sense, […]
I knew something was up when the hits on WWTQ/Buzz suddenly took a huge jump — also generating a ton of secondary hits to this site. The hits were pouring in from Stavros The Wonder Chicken’s Bullshitr, which, it turns out, had been thoroughly Dugg, del.icio.us’ed, Hot Linked, Fireballed, Reddited, TechCrunched, and generally linked to […]
(I was halfway out the door before I noticed, uploaded by brownpau.)
Before anything else, kudos to Estan for the amazing photos of the lava flows currently pouring down the slopes of Mayon Volcano: (Mt. Mayon eruption, uploaded by estan.) Mayon Volcano has been undergoing an effusive eruption in recent weeks, with lava flowing down its slopes into the surrounding area since mid-July. Ash columns emerging from […]
Just when we thought it had gotten as hot as it would get, it gets hotter this week, as the heat wave that has been killing people and baking much of the nation now heads for the East Coast. Warming Warnings are up, so here are a few tips on how to handle the coming […]
I’m trying out Vox, the new hosted weblog service by Six Apart (makers of Movable Type and Typepad, and acquisitors of Livejournal). So far I’ve been mostly disappointed, but that’s probably because my expectations of a weblog service are rather different from what people usually want. Apparently most of you out there want an easy […]
(IMG_7321.JPG, uploaded by brownpau.) East Garden Court, National Gallery of Art.
First Street NW in front of the Capitol is not the best place in DC to watch Fourth of July fireworks, as Amy and I learned firsthand two nights ago. The crowd is thick and nasty, the road is hard, the variety show on the Capitol lawn never finishes on time, the fireworks are far […]
Passed by the White House while today. The fallen elm has been cleaned up, and the area taped off; I guess they’ll be putting a new tree in soon. Lots of Japanese people about, carrying little American and Japanese flags; turns out Koizumi is here, his last visit to DC as Prime Minister.