I have to admit, I'm a little surprised to hear folks treat getting run off the road and into parked cars as if it's simply the cost of using the road. It shouldn't be. Of course traffic violations ...

gmg@35: You're right that the WJLA story does not refer to the neighborhood as Southeast, but the WTOP writeup, which I was also looking at, did. I believe WRCTV's post-Olympic newscast may have refe...

AMDCer@3: you're not kidding. Prior to news of this morning's accident the original title was "Morning Roundup: Frankly, Pretty Depressing Edition". ...

Those wondering about the Kuciniches should read this Post article from last December. It's kind of charming, really....

HCE: the link should be fixed now. Sorry about that....

I'm a little surprised to see people taken aback by calls to punish the driver if he's found to be at fault. Nobody's calling for blood here, or even jail time, but if failing to obey the law resulte...

You're right mxxcciii: the team is named after Kastle Security. It's still a pretty dumb name, though. As for the Mystics/Wizards objection -- fair enough. Still, while those are *also* profoundly ...

Nope! Why are you? Do you know something that the scientists and doctors and experimentalists who calculated these safety margins -- which the soil comes in well under -- do not?...

Politburo, Reid: for specific screenshots, see here and here for specific examples of what Comcast's compression does to the signal. It's pretty miserable....

Drew, the link should now be fixed. Sorry about that....

Ooh -- also, there's an error in the post. The custom firmware is free; that $10-50 estimate is the cost of the router. I'll get that fixed....

Thanks for the, uh, supportive comments, everyone. Maybe I can explain a little better: first, if you wanted to recreate this yourself it would only cost you about $60 or $70. I spent about $15 on i...

TCM: The link should now be fixed. Sorry about that....

I'm aware of that style rule, but it's ridiculous enough that I intentionally eschewed it....

MS: The one thing you left out of your explanation of Texas's primary system is how the number of delegates is allocated to each district. My understanding is that this is based on how many votes wer...

Er, yes. Sorry about that -- sleepy fingers (and brain)....

will this whole meter thing make it so that i will never be able to get a cab, kinda like in philly (meters) To echo what Esmerelda said: it's much, MUCH easier to get a cab in Philadelphia. I wind ...

I understand your frustration, Moose, but for one thing it's no inconceivable that we'd use similar language for a water main break in another quadrant; and for another I don't think your comparison t...

Damned if I do, damned if I don't, Mikaiya. I originally had it written at 364, remembered it was a leap year, then changed it to 365. I think people don't usually count Christmas itself as a "shopp...

Sorry about the comment weirdness, folks -- it's being worked on and will hopefully be resolved soon. As for why we're promoting RSS: the people in New York look at RSS subscription rates and factor ...