Thursday, June 02, 2005

Cops, Wifi, and other DC Blogs of note



Eyewitness report: PD drama
Little pink flower
Here’s the story of a couple, longtime DC residents, on the verge of moving to Ohio. But this week they got caught up in a nearby police action. Here’s a small part of this dramatic post:
…Before I could formulate my next thought, the police were yelling at us to get away from our car and get back from the immediate area. I freaked out, yelling that we had our baby in the car and needed to get her...
Neighborhood Hacker Watch?
Where Is My Mind
This is one strange story. Our writer hunts for apartment and finds one in Mount Pleasant. That’s the first part of this well-written post. But later he’s sitting outside his “potential new apartment” in his car with laptop open when a middle-aged guy starts banging on his car window and accuses him of hacking. We pick up the report:

… he shouted, "If you don't turn that damn thing off, I'm calling the cops. I know what you're doing, you're breaking into networks." I was, of course, taken aback and stammered out something that resembled, "No I'm not. Not at all."

Click on the link for the rest. But you have to wonder what’s going on in Mount Pleasant to trigger this WiFi weirdness. A follow-up post tells of a successful apartment hunt.

An Internet Challenge
Soleil, Lune & Astrales
Our writer asks: Is the Internet creating a lazy, pathological society? This expansive and clever post catalogs the problems and suggest a recovery plan in the form of a challenge:
For an entire week, spend a maximum limit of 30 minutes online. Enough time to write the pressing blog entries and e-mail. At the end of the week, do you notice that you are more refreshed, less distractible, and more task focused?
Also Noted:

A very clever criticism of the Washington Times, “True Father haiku” by why.i.hate.dc

Elephant & Castle: A review by dcfud. He writes: A friend jokingly glanced around for something distinctly or even stereotypically British—soccer on the television, perhaps—and came up with little.

Social blog reporter
DC Blogs wrap:
The DC social blog phenomenon is gathering momentum, popularized by the Washington Socialites, which ostensibly closed their blog yesterday. But its leader, KAC, is behaving as the Obi Wan Kenobi of the bloggy world, with posts that appear and disappear from her site, reports the Butterfly Network. And then there’s Wonkette’s take.

A new blog arrival, cleverly named, with an attractive design, is the Blackberry Debutantes. They write: “A bipartisan tale of two girls taking on the District...
...one native, one newcomer. One Democrat, one Republican. One blonde, one brunette. What these two young single ladies in the District share, however, are mutual loves and desires. Desires for a good strong drink, a BlackBerry, Lilly Pulitzer, and a love for Breakfast at Tiffanys, for Seth Cohen and Andy Roddick,and for the city of Washington, DC.
Another arrival, the Miami Skin Party, comes with “A very liberal view of DC'S party life and wanna be divas” also has suggestively steamy art. Our author, whose real occupation is in “high speed aluminum transport,” writes:
A culture shocked young professional Miami native that moved here four years ago and still can’t figure out why everyone is so stuffy, why the girls love Jeans so much, and why there are so many unhappy daters and wanna be Paris Hiltons
And there’s this photo of the Cleavage Park Grrrls Club.

Photo: Reagan Center


 

posted by kob @ 12:32 PM