Have you thanked a veteran today? What are you waiting for? Technology is only getting faster! That’s right, soon you will be able to thank a veteran by using a technology chip in your mind! (No, there’s no actual link to that…it's just a theory.)

Can’t remember if the Georgetown Circulator exists? Download the new iPhone app! And while you’re at it, you may soon be able to pay for parking at meters with your cell phone! Isn’t technology great? Oh wait, WUSA has just reported that there is a new virus that downloads child porn onto your computer. Does it call Chris Hansen too?

Do you Twitter? Do you use LinkedIn? This was actually a secret intern test to remember not to trust you (because you are obviously over 30, we don't touch that stuff). Anyway, the two companies announced a new partnership yesterday.

Stop the presses (are there any left to stop?)—commenters on Prince of Petworth universally agree that the new mural on Sherman Avenue and Barry Place NW is awesome. Read More "Our Morning Roundup: The “Technology Has Exceeded Our Humanity” Edition" »

ESPN reports that Redskins rookie Robert Henson has quit Twitter a mere two days after he called out fans for booing during the team's shitty, pathetic 9-7 win over the lowly Rams. Today, the Post ran an awesome A1 story on the 189th reason why the Redskins are so worthy of scorn:

By Sunday evening, a few hours after Washington's unsightly 9-7 win against the St. Louis Rams, Henson had taken up an online battle against a segment of disgruntled Redskins fans, calling them disloyal "dim-wits" who "work 9 to 5 at McDonalds."

Almost immediately, Henson became one of the anti-heroes of a game he had watched from the sideline, doused with criticism and insults on sports-talk radio shows and Internet message boards. And by Monday afternoon, Henson sheepishly exited the team's Ashburn training facility, accompanied by several team spokesmen, to apologize for a Twitter-enabled diatribe against fans that provided him his first moment of NFL fame.

"This is exciting," one television reporter joked.

"No it's not," Henson said. "It's the negative kind of media you don't want."

Not only is Henson an a-hole. He's also a quitter.

Dim WitsGate™ makes it to the front page of the Washington Post! That means the story of Robert Henson's Twittered insults of Redskins fans -- calling them "dim wits" and saying they "work 9 to 5 at Mcdonalds" -- occupies the same real estate where Watergate became the original -Gate!

Bottom line: Cheap Seats Daily's hype of Dim WitsGate™ is validated!

From all the hate going Henson's way on Sunday's postgame shows on local sportstalk stations, I was certain this was going to develop into the biggest Redskins controversy ever generated by an inactive linebacker using new media. Or at least one of the biggest Redskins controversies ever generated by an inactive linebacker using new media.

And now it's on the front page!

Also, it's always nice to see former longtime DC resident the Great Dan Steinberg, the Woodward & Bernstein of Dim WitsGate™, on A1.

(Full disclosure: I still have my 35-year-old "Nixon Resigns" issue of the Washington Post in my paperboy bag in the basement. I'll get 'em out for Halloween. Hence the "-Gate" fetish...)

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There they go again. Dan Snyder is using his web site to go to war with the Washington Post.

(AFTER THE JUMP: Is Henson being used to take heat off the real Redskins villains? Pravda's Ashburn bureau strikes again? How would you copy-edit multiple Twitters? Leonard Shapiro now using out-of-town newspapers to blast Dan Snyder? The NFL's blackout policy is as big a sham as the Skins waiting list?)

Read More "Cheap Seats Daily: Are the Redskins Using Robert Henson to Protect Zorn, Campbell, Snyder, FedEx, Etc…?" »

Best story of the Rams game: Dim WitsGate!

Robert Henson is in a bad place right now. The Skins sub-benchwarmer used Twitter to go after home fans for booing at the game, and cast the disgruntled masses in the stands as "dim wits" and folks who "work 9 to 5 at mcdonalds."

Henson, who wasn't even on the active roster for the game, went from unknown to reviled in a matter of keystrokes.

When I first heard of Henson's comments during the postgame shows -- WJFK gave a running account of the naive blasts --  I was sure somebody hijacked his twitter account. Unfortunately for him, it looks like nobody did. Henson's twittering later claimed he went after the fans only because he had things thrown at him.

Nobody's buying it.

From the sound of things, this could be a deal breaker between the rookie and the fans, at least those that really are dim wits or really do work 9 to 5 at mcdonalds.

In any case, Jim Zorn and Jason Campbell should buy Henson a meal before he leaves town. Henson is going to take a whole lot of heat that woulda gone their way today.

Some writers also expressed befuddlement over the crowd's behavior. Like Henson, writers don't pay to get into the games.

(AFTER THE JUMP: Snyder's the root of all booing? Jim Zorn: Read My Lips? Sonny Jurgensen vs. Jim Zorn, Round II? Juwan Howard is still in the NBA? How much would you pay for Juwan Howard's pants? The Nats are on the entrance ramp for the Road to 100 Losses?)

Read More "Cheap Seats Daily: A Win That Sounds Like a Loss?" »

*Remember the huff over Monica Hesse's piece on Brian Brown? The one from August 28, in which she describes the NOM executive director as "pleasantly, ruthlessly sane"? Nearly two weeks later, this thing still has legs. About this time last week, Rebecca Armendariz of the Washington Blade denounced Hesse's story as a dangerous “puff piece.” Now, on WorldMagBlog—the online arm of (yes) the evangelical rag World—Les Sillars claims the controversy as evidence of liberal bias. Media Matters, on the other hand, says the Post's ombud response "illustrates fundamental flaw in 'liberal bias' claims." (Hey, guys, it's like a goddamn Rorschach test up in here!) The Awl weighed in from 20,000 feet with a post on Hesse's status as a "failed lesbian." And the better angels of our nature wept. [Seriously, though, I'll leave the final word here to Wemple—or to our very own Hess!—but having read the piece, I'd call it a.) misplaced aggression and b.) self-defeating to accuse the woman of "journalistic vandalism," or what have you. Hesse tried for a human(e) feature on an easy-to-revile fellow (with whom many of us disagree), and her conceit backfired. Doesn't make her a monster.]

Read More "Our Morning Roundup: “Twestivus for the Rest of Us” Edition" »

There's been much hand-wringing of late over @MayorFenty, assumed to be Hizzoner's official Twitter feed.

But something wasn't quite right about it. The first tweet, on July 27, informed the world that this was a summer-jobs project. There's the poor design and copyediting, not up to the EOM's usual standards. Then there was the repeated admonitions to "stay in school!" And today comes a strangely relevant tweet.

Yesterday, LL was intrigued as to why Hizzoner's profile contained the line, "For more information about this profile contact McKennaLong & Aldridge c/o Jessica Abrahams,or Badele McQueen Esqs."

McQueen, reached yesterday at the law firm, had no idea what was up with that.

So LL asked mayoral communications director Mafara Hobson, who says her office has nothing to do with the @MayorFenty Twitter page. Someone's freelancing! "It's not ours," she e-mails. "Can you get the word out?"

A Twitter feed might be helpful for that!

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty - or, rather, his Twitter stand-in, if anyone wants to own up to serving in that role - asked in a tweet early this morning: "Do DC residents want District government officials twitter use to be for entertainment, news or answering questions from voters?"

One word, @MayorFenty: entertainment!

After a few weeks of micro-blogging, I think I’ve figured out what Twitter is good for: all manner of information whizzing by haphazardly. I miss 90 percent of this stream-of-consciousness info. stream, what with real work to do.  But when I take the time, there is usually some funky item worth crowing about. 

Check out this set of instructions for building your own wind turbine. OK, most of us aren’t going to rush out and erect one of these above our row house or apartment building. But isn’t it nice to know you could?

So a new survey has found that most of what goes on in the Twittersphere is "pointless babble."

Read More "Twitter Usage, By The Numbers: Most Tweets are “Pointless Babble”" »

Seems the fake Adrian Fenty Twitterer, "FentyDC," now has some competition. From the real Fenty - or, "MayorFenty."

Read More "Get Your Twitter On: The Battle of “FentyDC” v. “MayorFenty”" »

Adam Ostrow of the social media site mashable.com wondered what people did during the Twitter outage yesterday.

• "I rocked in the corner by myself, slowly slipping into madness."
• "I returned six months of phone calls, gave blood, pulled weeds, mastered knee-hooping, kicked all my computers at least once, and took pictures of my butt."
• "I spent time with my kids. Kinda nice actually."
• "I went to the Great British Beer Festival (@gbff #gbff). Got slightly drunk and missed out on the Fullers' Vintage Ale because they were announcing it going on sale using Twitter."
• "Found girlfriend, got marr[i]ed, started my own business, divorced, traveled around the world and ate pie."
• "Read...gasp...mainstream media to find out what was going on."
• "Good grief. Where's the 'I Survived Twitter's Downtime' T-shirts?"

Read More "Yesterday’s Twitter Outage: Armageddon!" »

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to start following John Quincy Adams on Twitter (@JQAdams). I mean, just out of common courtesy. The guy's been dead for a really long time and he's sending out tweets!

Read More "John Quincy Adams and Other Dead People to Follow on Twitter" »

Redskins training camp opened yesterday without Stephen Strasburg Brian Orakpo or Michael Vick. There was, however, a group of fans calling for the team to bring Vick in. Spurned ex-Redskin LaVar Arrington wondered on his WJFK radio show whether the Vick clique was hired by Dan Snyder as a "guerilla marketing campaign" to prepare the rest of the fan base for actually signing history's most athletic dog killer.

I like his thinking. Arrington's, that is.

Orakpo signed last night and will be dressed out today. The Sporting News ranked the Redskins as the best fit for Vick.

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The Vick influence, meanwhile, remains profound. Ultimate fighting opponents for years have tried to keep states from sanctioning MMA by calling it "human cockfighting," a term made famous by Sen. John McCain. But McCain's tag did nothing to stop the spread of the cage matches. So, New York legislators opposed to seeing the sport, or whatever you want to call it, sanctioned in their state have adopted "human dogfighting" as their catch phrase.

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Speaking of guerilla marketing: Larry Weisman looks more like a brilliant hire for Dan Snyder every day.

(AFTER THE JUMP:New Skins PR official calls team "mediocre"?)

Read More "Cheap Seats Daily: Snyder’s PR Hire Calls Redskins ‘a Mediocre Team’?" »

DCist is reporting that the Real World DC cast may be arriving right friggin now. Has anybody been this excited by the arrival of more d-bags into D.C.? DCist writes:

"A tipster just texted that the D.C. Real World cast appears to be arriving as we speak -- she reports seeing a blonde girl with a suitcase walking through Dupont Circle, looking clueless and being trailed by a camera crew."

Of course, we've been doing our own serious blogging on the subject over at Housing Complex. The Anti-Real World DC blog has pictures (see above) capturing the apparent awkward move in.

"Hi. I'm Ethan. I will be playing the drunken frat boy in cargo shorts."

"Hi. I'm Zoe. I will be playing the drunken ditz who hooks up with you in the second episode."

There's more after the jump!

Read More "Real World D.C. Cast Arriving Now! Really?" »

Sit in the front or the back of the train. The weenies are in the middle of the car, Twittering.