Forget Christmas shopping, paying your bills, reading articulate reviews on your favorite local blog. The Internet is for porn. Such is one of the life lessons the delightful Avenue Q, now playing at the National Theater, provides. The now-famous show is a Sesame Street for the post-college, ennui-ridden 20 or 30-something. This means it teaches us not to spell and know our colors, but instead how to cope with useless liberal arts degrees, commitment-phobic boyfriends... more ›

If you regularly tune into to an Internet radio station while working at your computer (and we most certainly do), you'll likely not be able to find any music on your favorite station tomorrow. The regularly scheduled programming of tens of thousands of Internet radio stations will come to a halt tomorrow as part of a national Day of Silence organized by SaveNetRadio.org, a coalition of artists, labels, listeners, and webcasters. Web radio stations are... more ›

Intellectual property junkies, and we know you're out there, have another case to salivate over. As the Examiner AP reports, the Smithsonian Institution, which houses over 6,000 images of its historical treasures in a publicly accessible online database, got the IP version of a shot across their bow from Public.Resource.Org, which recently downloaded every single photograph and made them available on its Flickr stream. What's the problem? The Smithsonian claims it retains any "possible copyright"... more ›

We have to admit, our burning desire for a real-life Washington sex scandal probably causes us to pay too much attention to Deborah Jeane Palfrey. She, of course, is the owner of Pamela Martin & Associates, alleged to provide prostitutes to the D.C. area for some 13 years. But even our interest in Madam Palfrey doesn't extend to listening to a five hour radio interview. more ›

Staffers at the Washington Times just don't get a break, do they? Apart being regularly lambasted for working for a money-bleeding newspaper owned by the odd Rev. Sun Myung Moon, now they're getting a in-depth look into the struggle for the paper's leadership. more ›

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To do so, you simply visit the venerable Google Maps page and type in a location. Then, zoom. Ultimately, you should find yourself staring at what the G-men consider the center of the entered municipality. As you can see above, Washington's lies just north of the Ellipse. Quite accurate, it seems, as that is the location of the Zero Milestone, the point at which distances from D.C. are measured. more ›