» D.C. officials are going to wire a Wii, a cable box, a TiVo, and a router underneath the 11th Street bridges where they cross the Anacostia River — or so the picture that accompanies this ABC 7 story makes it appear.

» The Washington Business Journal reports that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave $100,000 to the D.C.–based SOS Children’s Villages-USA, which will benefit foster-care villages in Florida and Illinois. If Brangelina wanted to help out people in the District, they could just hang out here for a while and improve our standings in the national ugly pool.

» The homeless man who stole a plane in Frederick, Maryland, is reportedly mentally ill. You don’t say.

» You could accuse just about anyone in the Redskins organization of writing checks that his ass can’t cash at this point, but it has never been demonstrated in a court of law until today.

» An awfully cuuute recap of the 2009 National Zoo Baby Boom.

» The D.C. Zoning Commission has given tentative approval to a new regulation that will permit Zipcar to continue doing what it is already doing. Until the new rule is approved, Zipcar will . . . continue doing what it is already doing.

» Teatro Goldoni just made a lot of new friends. A lot of my friends. Unfortunately, no journalists, employed or otherwise, have $20.