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Jan 04, 2023

Video Game Testers From Rockville Form Microsoft’s First Union

The union will consist of more than 300 employees at the studio, which is best known for producing the popular video game series Fallout and Elder Scrolls.

Aug 30, 2017

D.C. Wants Residents To Help Train Computers In Preventing Traffic Deaths

A new traffic safety program requires people to identify objects in videos of near-miss collisions.

Oct 23, 2012

Xbox Users Give Final Debate to Obama

Undecided voters who watched last night’s presidential debate on an Xbox said President Obama is better suited than Republican nominee Mitt Romney to handle the United States’ foreign affairs.

Oct 17, 2012

Toasty! Xbox Users Pick Obama in Second Presidential Debate

People who watched last night’s presidential debate on their Xboxes declared President Obama the winner by an overwhelming margin.

Oct 12, 2012

Biden Pwns Ryan in Debate, According to Xbox Users

People who watched last night’s vice-presidential debate between Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on their Xbox video game systems overwhelmingly favored the incumbent.

Oct 02, 2012

Microsoft Wades Into Election With Xbox Polling and Live Debate Coverage

As Election Day draws nearer, Microsoft is getting into the polling business by turning its millions of Xbox Live subscribers into potentially the nation’s largest focus group.

Jul 23, 2012

Say It Ain’t So: Weezer to Play Pentagon City Mall for Microsoft Store Opening

“In the Mall” indeed. Weezer will be playing the Pentagon City Mall on August 11 for…a Microsoft Store grand opening.

Jun 28, 2007

Joyriding Caught on Google Maps

There’s been all kinds of crazy stuff found on Google’s new StreetView application, which we wrote about before – guys who appear to be peeing on the side of the road, climbing fences into houses, and so on. While D.C. won’t be getting StreetView for a little while longer, there is still some strange stuff to be seen with good ol’ Google Maps. Joyriding has long been a problem in D.C., where (usually) kids steal…

May 08, 2007

Kickball Lawsuit Still Going On

File this under “More Evidence that America has Become Way Too Litigious” — a legal battle between two D.C. kickball leagues has now gone on for over a year, and doesn’t look to be coming to a resulution anytime soon. Yes, a lawsuit. Over kickball. Early last year the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) filed a lawsuit against upstart DC Kickball, alleging that founder and WAKA-defector Carter Rabasa had stolen WAKA’s rules of play and…

Feb 18, 2007

Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse

We’d like to start this week’s run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn’t for them, the rest of us wouldn’t be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he’s working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,…

 
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