DC Blogs Noted
DC Election Data: Neighbor Search – This is one of the more extraordinary and
useful projects undertaken by a blogger. It’s a database that Eli of dcwanna.be constructed. Put in your address – or any address – and find out what political candidates are getting in contributions from your neighbors. DCist has a write up here. And here's the Rock Creek Rambler review: I could really play with this thing all day.Rob Goodspeed has completed some very interesting research on the history of the word “gentrification.” He used a newspaper database to discover when the word first appeared in the Washington Post and its frequency of mentions since then. He charts the data and combines it with some insights. The Goodspeed Update.
The Emotional Economics of the DC Rental Market, from Alex Payne. After his experience searching for a rental he writes: The rental market in the DC metro area is, in a word, godawful.
More rental woes: I am trying to find a place to live, and it is killing me slowly. By Michelle McNamara who is guest blogging at LMNOP.
The Bethesda Safeway puts more of its products under lock and key to keep them safe from meth addicts and thieves. The price: One customer, the writer at Good at Drinking, Bad at Life. A nod to E:)
The kindness of a co-worker and the plants he saves. A report by Hey Pretty.
posted by kob @ 12:57 AM
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Well that was a nice Friday morning surprise, thank you. And yes, my spider plants live to see another day thanks to co-worker. He was rewarded this morning with chocolate.
As always, thanks for listing me as a BoN. Perhaps whoever the hell is in charge of stupid decisions at Safeway will finally hear my lengthy grievances.
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