1907-1910. “Washington, D.C., switch yards, Union Station”. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.
1900-1915. “Washington from Smithsonian Institute (Institution) castle, Washington, D.C.” Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.
I still can’t believe it’s gone.
Help Support Frager's Fire Fund
On 6/5, one of our beloved Hill institutions, Frager’s Hardware, burned down in a 4-alarm fire. Please help them with any size donation. On 6/5, one of our beloved Hill institutions, Frager’s Hardware, burned down in a 4-alarm fire. Please help them with any size donation.
The goal of this fundraiser is to provide the business owners with funds to cover any costs that are not covered by insurance or other means.
Capitol Hill won’t be the same without Frager’s. Let’s help them rebuild.
Goddammit, I love this place.
Baseball is played by Caracas youth in a city sandlot in Venezuela, August 1976.
Photograph by Robert Madden, National Geographic
ca. 1902. “Willard’s Hotel, Washington”. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress. (Google Street View.)
Really quite excited. Even more so after this.
— From NYC, riding happily.
Oh god, no, The All-Powerful Bike Lobby got to you!
Beyond recognition: the incredible story of a face transplant
For Carmen Tarleton, the day started out normally enough. Tarleton, 45, had errands to run, a piano lesson to get to, a house to tidy. Tomorrow was Valentine’s Day, and for the first time in a long time — the first time since the attack five years earlier — she looked forward to spending it with a new boyfriend. And then everything changed. The phone rang, and Tarleton’s surgeon gave her the news: after more than a year of searching, doctors were optimistic that they’d finally found her a new face.
Watch this. Read this. A truly amazing story.
1880-1901. “Washington’s Monument”. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.
Come join us at Vox Media!
Vox Media is a technology-driven media company and the publisher of The Verge, Polygon, and SB Nation. We’re hiring engineers to hack on Chorus, our publishing platform built on Ruby on Rails, among other tech.
Our open positions:
These are permanent, full-time positions with benefits based in Washington, DC or New York City (but we’ll consider outstanding remote candidates).
More about Vox:
- Read about our team and projects at our product team blog.
- Episode 2 of Press Reset, the documentary our video studio made about the development of Polygon, our gaming site (good behind the scenes footage of what it’s like to work on our product team).
- Video from VAX, our recent hack week where the Vox product team flew to Austin, took over the 20th floor of a downtown building, and made a bunch of neat things.
- Photos of our sweet new HQ in DC.
(Reblogs are appreciated).
ca. 1904. “Bartholdi Fountain, Washington, D.C.” Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.
Nine Inch Nails returns to major label, new album due later this year
We already knew that a “reinvented” version of Nine Inch Nails would be hitting the road in 2013, but the band won’t just be playing its greatest hits: the tour will be in support of a new album coming this year.
Fuck. Yes.
The Verge and Polygon invite you to ‘Revenge of the Party Monsters’ at E3
LET’S PARTY, LA!
Love the poster.
ca. 1904. “Reading Room rotunda, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.” Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.
