Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Dear Virginia & Maryland: We Need Your Help
Occupy DC – Soapboxcourtesy of theqspeaks
Good morning, everyone. This post is specifically for Virginia and Maryland readers today, which means it’s sorta the opposite of what we strive for here at We Love DC, but for reasons that will become clear in a minute, we need your help, and all our friends that live [...]
DC-CAN adds 100-Gbit links to their services
2008_04_biketrail_infrastructure_145courtesy of dsearls
One of the difficult parts of the digital divide, the part that few have been able to begin to posit solutions for, is home delivery of fast internet connectivity to neighborhoods where the income level is low. Most of the big network providers push their high bandwidth solutions to upper-middle and upper [...]
Geek2Chic Celebrates High-Tech Fashion – For a Good Cause
If you came to the Geek 2 Chic fashion event – where men from the world of technology are dressed up and sent down a runway – expecting amazing makeovers before your eyes, you might be disappointed. After all, many of the amateur models at this charity fundraiser were hardly pocket-protector-sporting hopeless cases when they [...]
More »ESPN Zone Arcade Game Auction
‘ESPN Zone’
courtesy of ‘darkensiva’
Via Thrillist this morning, the now-closed ESPN Zone is auctioning off pretty much all of their arcade games and the going prices aren’t bad. Knowing the WeLoveDC audience, I figured there would be some of you out there interested in getting your gaming hands on some of these classics. Aside from the [...]
Recycle those old hazards this weekend
‘Car Bumper in Recycling Bin’courtesy of ‘Mr. T in DC’
If you’ve been holding on to some hazardous waste, or just have some old electronics that you don’t want to just put in the landfill, this is your weekend. DC DPW is accepting household hazardous waste and e-cycling materials for free this Saturday from 8 until [...]
AT&T Announces LTE expansion to DC in November
‘Man on Cellular Tower!’courtesy of ‘TheBusyBrain’
AT&T announced this morning that it will bring its next-generation LTE service to the DC area beginning in early November, along with a pair of Android-based LTE phones. The phones are the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket and the HTC Vivid, both of which can use the new LTE service, [...]
Social Media for Statehood: Tweet Protest tomorrow
Mayor Gray announced via his Twitter account plans for a virtual march on Facebook and Twitter and other social networks tomorrow morning at 8:28am. His inspiration for the odd time comes from the 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28th by Martin Luther King Jr. Mayor Gray wants people to tweet:
Dr. King said [...]
Mastering Metrobus, or, S.T.R.E.A.M. (SmarTrip Rules Everything Around Me)
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
I’ve been participating in the Zipcar Low Car Diet challenge this month, and something that I’ve noticed as I’ve gotten more transit-dependent is that a lot of intelligent, resourceful people are completely confounded by any bus that’s not the Circulator. If their destination is not close to a Metrorail [...]
Parkmobile’s Parking App: Not so bad, but not great
When it was announced earlier this year that DDOT would be accepting mobile payments through Parkmobile, I was pretty excited. I spend a lot of my time driving around DC, and while I was often parking on the street, I was often stopping at the bank for a couple rolls of quarters. By the end [...]
More »Sick DC Time-Lapse
If the above doesn’t work for you here’s a direct link to the District 1.5 : HDR Time-lapse from Drew Geraci.
Via the power of the interwebs, I stumbled across this awesome HDR time-lapse by Drew Geraci. The shots were taken over a 3 day period, during which Geraci was stopped 9 times by the National Parks [...]
Can please get a .dc domain now?
‘MicroLink Modem 56K’courtesy of ‘Markusram’
Late yesterday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the concept of the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) which will open up a fairly wide landscape of domain suffixes like .com and .org to new members. While the number of Top Level Domains have expanded in recent years, [...]
DJ ReOffender: A Beat Refinery DJ
While a lot of us were off at the beach, visiting family, or at weddings this Memorial Day Weekend, Shea “DJ ReOffender” Mulcahy was busy turning a hobby into a professional freelance career.
ReOffender is a self-proclaimed “Man of Music.” When he’s not at his day job, he finds himself singing or at the keyboard writing [...]
Discovery Coming to Udvar-Hazy
In case you missed it, NASA announced today – the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle program and the 50th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight by Russian Yuri Gagarin – that the space shuttle Discovery will make its final home at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center as part of the Smithsonian’s National Air and [...]
More »DC #1 Socially Networked City Says Men’s Health
‘84/365: Twestival 3/25/10′
courtesy of ‘@heylovedc’
Using an extensive and scientifically valid procedure, Men’s Health ranks DC as the top socially networked city in the US, and gives us an A+.
While Mashable may find this ranking surprising, those of us insiders (of the beltway) won’t be, as this city’s economic life blood hinges on who you know [...]
EXCLUSIVE: The Red Cross’ Rogue Tweeter Talks To We Love DC
As a social media professional, I fully understand the risks of my job. It is a job that doesn’t end after 5 PM or when you walk out of the office. We remain connected at all times through Blackberry devices or iPhones. Yesterday morning my alarm went off and I rolled over to my bed stand for [...]
More »Engineering Is The Coolest @ The National Building Museum
‘National Building Museum’
courtesy of ‘kimberlyfaye’
What’s an engineer? He’s that guy who wears overalls, that cute stripped hat and shovels coals into the trains engine, right? As Auntie Shrew would say “Wrrrrrrrong!” Engineers are much, much, much more than that. And to find out how engineers and engineering impacts our everyday lives, visit the National Building [...]
Charter School gets grant for 700 iPads
‘look at me and my iPad’courtesy of ‘philliefan99′
The Business Journal’s Michael Neibauer has the story of a DC Public Charter School that has received a grant for an iPad for each of their students. Each of their 700 students will receive an iPad that they can use in their day-to-day classroom experience. A little skeptical [...]
Tour Embassy Row on your Cell Phone
‘How Smart is that phone’
courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
The Woodrow Wilson House has put together a cell phone audio tour of historic Embassy Row. Narrated by Cokie Roberts, the tour gives listeners an inside look at the history and cultural of this fabulous stretch of Northwest DC, where diplomats, historic figures, residents, and most [...]
What The Tweet DC: Up In The Air Edition
‘From Capital Pride Parade’
courtesy of ’spiggycat’
Happy Monday DC!
Or not so much. When taking a look at the local Twitter Trends for DC Monday popped up on the list, however a look at the tweets says nobody loves Mondays. However if you are Chris W, who has Monday off from work, then you love Mondays.
Here’s what [...]
OXCART: CIA Innovation and a Cool Spy Plane
‘Oxcart Belly’
courtesy of ‘MrGuilt’
In the late 1950s, during the heyday of aviation and the dawning of space flight, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) approached Lockheed to develop a new aircraft that could overfly the Soviet Union. The CIA’s current plane (at the time) was the U-2, which served admirably in its role as a high-flying [...]
