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When we saw the words "Bad Brains" and "Leonard Nimoy" in the same sentence, our minds flew immediately to visions of a Golden Throats style reading of the inspired freneticism of the 'Brains' "Pay to Cum", done all "If I Had a Hammer" style. Well, we were only half right, but this mashup of the original song with an H.R. Pufnstuf LSD trip of a video featuring Nimoy (which many of you might have already seen on Boing Boing) and what can only be described as the Vulcanette dancers is just as much a slice of hardcore heaven as our original imaginings.

>> If you're in the market for a Crown Victoria, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has a few to sell. [WTOP] >>It looks like Paul Wolfowitz might finally soon be gone from the World Bank. But President Bush isn't about to let his departure spoil an otherwise solid 12-year run during which the bank's president has had the word "wolf" somewhere in their name. Obvious replacements are Wolf Blitzer, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Wolfgang Puck...

While there are many blogs out there that are little more than self-indulgement ramblings or highfalutin attempts at taste-making, according to a post I just read on Boing Boing, we can actually use this populist technology to engender social change, or something like that. So if you were as bewildered and disappointed as we were by the results of the Post's Best Bets poll last year, we ask that you rally behind a noble cause and help us ensure that the world knows that DC has more to offer than Ikea and Fuddruckers.

Though at times locally maligned for its police-confounding off-shoots, hip-hop's historical recognition is long overdue at an institution whose mission is the chronicling of American people and American culture. So we were pleased to see Boing Boing relay the news that the National Museum of American History will establish an exhibit of hip-hop artifacts entitled "Hip-Hop Won't Stop: The Beat, the Rhymes, the Life" including "photographs, posters, handwritten lyrics, clothing and costumes, videos and interviews and business and personal letters from hip-hop's early artists," much of which they are hoping will be acquired from the artists themselves, ranging from Afrika Bambaataa to Russell Simmons.

It's become chic to take the transit map of one's home metropolis and anagram the station names. Boing Boing has a remarkable collection of maps that have received the treatment, and when we learned of the craze, we wanted to jump on the bandwagon and give D.C. its own personal mixup. Just in time did we learn that the job had already been done. We like the results, although we are disappointed in the failure to dub the Woodley Park station "Do Gawk, My Rare Panda Looms" (thank you, Chris Snyder).

Via Boing Boing this morning comes news that Digital Rights Management may be sending dollars down the drain in Fairfax. Tax dollars, that is. According to a report from Phil Shapiro of the Digital Divide Network, the Fairfax Public Library system got the great idea to distribute downloadable books. There's just one problem. The books are in Windows Media Format. That means they don't play on Macs, iPods or computers running the GNU/Linux operating system. Apparently, they've never heard of MP3.