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» The wizards behind DCist’s curtains are working to restore the comments. In the meantime, enjoy the peace and quiet.

» Some of the District’s more famous former residents lost two mountain bikes from their homes in Baltimore, notes the Post’s Reliable Source. Their bikes were worth an order of magnitude more than Mayor Fenty’s to boot.

» That there is one totally exploded pickup truck.

» Prince of Petworth notes that the Petworth farmers’ market opens Friday.

» D.C. Department of Public Works crews will collect trash and recycling one hour earlier tomorrow and on Wednesday in order to pull the garbage before 90-degree-plus weather can get to it. So kick your cans to the curb before 6 a.m.

» Free wireless hotspots are coming to Chinatown and Penn Quarter in advance of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference July 11–15. Better still, those WiFi hotspots — courtesy of the Washington Convention and Sports Authority and D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer — will stay on after the delegates leave town.

» Game’s the same, just got more fierce: A whopping 47,000 new Democrats have registered to vote in the District since the 2006 mayoral election, the Washington Post reports.

» ABC7 reports on an attempted abduction of a teenaged girl from a Manassas shopping center.