"The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention man need ever make." Statistician I.J. Good said that in 1965 in an early attempt to define technological singularity, or the moment when a machine's independent intelligence first genuinely surpasses a human's. (Think Skynet from the Terminator movies: machines run the show and humans are detritus; or, [...]

Thanks to the folks at DCist for putting the heat on Republican Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Az.), for saying the following in Senate proceedings on the D.C. voting rights issue:
"The District does not lack for representation in Congress. It actually already has representatives in Congress, 100 Senators and 435 House members, all of whom, under [...]

The Maryland Nighthawks aren't playing this season.
Worse news for the team: Who noticed?
"The team's taking this year off," says Adam Dantus, the Nighthawks' 21-year-old general manager and spokesman.
The Nighthawks, affiliated most recently with something called the Premier Basketball League, played home games at Georgetown Prep's athletic center last year.
Dantus says the spiffy school's administration tried [...]

The City Lights Public Charter School closes tomorrow. And when the school for at-risk youth closes, I wonder: will that mean the end to getting a straight answer as to why it shut down. Last Wednesday, the Post's Bill Turque did a solid job trying to suss out a reason:
"The collapse of City Lights, housed [...]

We aren't gonna be officially part of P.G. County. Thank God. The Senate today rejected an amendment that would cede most of our turf to Maryland.

Yesterday evening, at around 6 p.m., D.C. police officers responded to a report of an assault in progress at Georgia and Gresham Place NW. When the officers arrived, they discovered that a man had been stabbed and had been transported—by friends presumably—to Howard University Hospital. According to the release: "Subsequently, he succumbed to his injuries [...]

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Morning all. This morning, WTOP's Mark Segraves [...]

Just when we're really, really close on that whole taxation-with-representation thing, some yahoo goes and suggests D.C. should really just be more Maryland. Thanks for the stall, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, but it was a total bust. Here in the nation's capital, we still sort-of like immigrants and we prefer to remain the tax-scandalized, [...]

I saw this print at my vet's yesterday; the bathroom has a series of signed prints by a French artist showing dogs peeing. OK, whatever, Europeans, but one of the prints was worth noting:

How often do you get to see a dog checking out dog prostitutes? He's like, "Homina, homina: dog prostitutes," and his owner's [...]

Read reactions from the film's London premiere Tuesday night at the Hollywood Reporter.

Remember when furniture chain Room & Board was definitely coming to D.C. via the demise of the locals' plan to bring a Diner/Tryst/Open City/comedy club/yoga and dance studio to 14th and T? Well, it fell through.
Housing Complex's Ruth Samuelson has the scoop, which takes up where we left off.

LL watched the Senate cloture vote yesterday in the press gallery beside WTOP's inimitable Mark Plotkin. We both struggled to hear the votes as they were called—helped not at all by Plotkin's stream of anecdotes stretching back well into the '70s and beyond.
Then we heard: "Senator Cochran, aye."
Thad Cochran? Republican of Mississippi? Gentleman Southerner? Certainly [...]

This afternoon, I checked in with Jackie Van Croft. On January 31, her son William went missing. He's still missing. William has Asperger's Syndrome. He disappeared on the one-year anniversary of his father's death.
"The police are working on all leads," Van Croft says. "They have been getting tips, people have been calling in the tip [...]

Think politicians are paralyzed by Twitter? That's just the beginning.

Meet John Culberson. He's a Republican from Texas. He's on Twitter. He's also on Qik, a video streaming service for anybody with a Blackberry or a camera-phone. We missed our chance to have him feed our Average Day D.C. blog machine.
Culberson recorded an almost 18-minute-long video [...]

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