The Washington Times' Tom Howell reports that hopefuls for licenses to run the five medical marijuana dispensaries in the District will have until October 31 to get their applications in. more ›

Tired of bugging honorary D.C. Representative Louie Gohmert about how Washington is treated as the federal punching bag? Then this Facebook app -- which, after reminding D.C. residents about their lack of voting rights, connects them to the office of a random one -- might be for you. more ›

Today, the Washington Post released its free application for the iPad to the iTunes Store -- in what will surely be annoying news for iPhone/iPod Touch users who paid $1.99 for the less feature-heavy version of the same application. Currently, free access to content is being sponsored, but beginning in February 2011, dead tree subscribers will pay 99 cents per month and non-subscribers will pay $3.99 per month for full access to content. We took the new application for a test drive, comparing it against apps for the New York Times and USA Today. more ›

We know that plenty of you are getting all psyched about the new 3G iPhone, which is set to deliver tomorrow morning. (Hopefully, this release won't result in as much cutting in line as the first incarnation of the much-sought after gadget.) Via We Love DC, it appears that some intrepid developers have created a new iPhone navigation application called iTrans DC (link requires iTunes), which allows you to access published Metro times. Sounds cool, but $15 seems like an outrageous amount to pay for information that you can easily get from WMATA or Meenster, with just a couple additional clicks of your finger. Some of the early iTrans DC reviewers are also skeptical. We've pasted them below: more ›