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Sun streams through the stones that adorn the Martin Luther King Memorial, in Washington DC. Visit Navin’s website.

Amazing basketball trick shots performed by Dude Perfect. [Texas Aggies]

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial [amazing] College dropouts rob feds of billions [no tax revenue] Hipsters Vs. Old People [infographic] DC’s best murals [art]

The Washington Times just hung a new banner at their HQ. [This is Our Times] According to the clock on the wall, this photo was snapped around 11:15 am. Early lunch? The place looks empty. h/t Emily Miller

BeyondDC takes a closer look at how to make bike lanes even safer. [going green?] Cycle tracks provide bikers with a high degree of separation from both automobiles and pedestrians. They are, by and large, very safe pieces of infrastructure. The one weakness of cycle tracks is at intersections, where …

Obama’s baggy pants problem [just like the rest of us] More speed cameras [income] How walkable is your neighborhood? [walk score] Vacationers on vacations [heat is on]

You gotta have goals [woman aims to be world’s fattest] History is hard [Bachmann] DC homelessness set to increase [facts] Why aren’t there adult lunchables? [good question] Georgetown > China [pictures / video]

Washington Business Journal takes a walk down memory lane. [Redskins QBs] They say a quarterback is like a football team’s CEO. And in Washington, there may be no closer-watched CEO than the man calling the shots on the field for the beloved Washington Redskins. When you succeed in the position, …

Parking can be very hard. [City Paper] This just in from Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue: Councilmember Marion Barry’s silver Jaguar, parked in the crosswalk while he noshed at Uniontown Bar and Grill across the street. Not that people in wheelchairs would have an easy time with those bricks anyway.

Clinton wants fat kids on treadmills [weight loss] Fark: “No, I don’t need my spells checked” [O’Donnell] Flash mob robbery [danger] TBD keeps it local [or not]

This is a real story. [found it on the internet, so it must be true] Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine. We’re …

Get’s better toward the end. [One billion dollars gets you Joe Biden]

The New York Observer recently unveiled its 50 Media Power Bachelorettes list. Included on the list was our friend Tara Palmeri [congrats] Tara Palmeri, Gossip Reporter – Page Six/New York Post Scooped up by Page Six after a stint at the Washington Examiner’s Yeas and Nays column, Tara Palmeri has …

Do not miss Bobby’s Burger Palace [pictures] Obama joins Foursquare [Secret Service thrilled] You’re gonna pay to eat that [DC tops list] Zipcar is pissed at DC [pissed]

Chocolate City Brewing goes Pug [delicious] Princess Sparkle goes Kiss on Bachmann [she loves green] DC’s Wonder Bread goes for history [protected] Sarah Palin’s toenails [there, we said it] And don’t be nervous, but this this is roaming the DC area [wtf]