Your escalators could be broken WHILE in Russia. From NPR: There have been many experiences here in Sochi that have been foreign or unfamiliar. But this broken escalator made me feel right at home. It’s just like Metro back in Washington, DC, which suffers from near-constant escalator failures and repairs. …

Yogurt bound for Team USA in Russia has been stalled by bureaucratic issues. You can read the whole NYT piece here, but this is the best quote out of the article, trust us: “I’d like to think that yogurt could have diplomatic immunity,” said Peter McGuinness, the chief marketing and …

A brave cartographer mapped out the entire internet. Yes, Tumblr is in the Hipster sea, Anonymous has their own island, there’s a Stalking Straight (guess what that’s nearby) and Google has a land of indexes. You can’t out-geek this guy. Pretty amusing and worth close observation with above link. h/t …

Washington, DC gets 48 pleasant weather days between 55° F and 75° F a year, according to this Kelly Norton infographic. Once you give that a once over, if you’re not moving to southern California, remember that the next time you decide… You’re not taking the day off You’re not leaving …

Fruit ketchups [are happening] Politico picks the 10 craziest [government boondoggles] VA Gov [on the charm offensive] Popville PSA: [do not clip your nails on the metro] CityPaper PSA: [stop skipping out on your restaurant reservations] Photo by Stephen Ball

Note: We did not theme this Hyper Hill, but it is all about vices. It’s may be real tough for you to [buy grain alcohol in MD] CVS goes humanitarian [and stops selling cigarettes] In Virginia you can [still get the chair (the electric one)] DC moving to decriminalize marijuana …

YOU READ THAT RIGHT. A CRICKET. IN THE RHOB CAFETERIA SOUP. View evidence at your own risk. As one person put it, “Extra protein at no additional charge.” (TWO tipsters sent this in. And one reacted with this: Yuck.)    

BREAKING in news you never knew you wanted to know: It’s true: I’m not a #Belieber. “Senator Mark Warner offers to sign petition to deport Justin Bieber” http://t.co/KQwY6hcN1a — Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) February 4, 2014   via The Hill h/t Phillip Herndon

Cook like Pizza Paradiso [cookbook] Takoma Park VFW open to non-vets [now serving $1.75 drafts] Guy on the Metro grossing passengers out [it’s not what you’re expecting] Franklin School will become art gallery [so fancy] 40,000 oysters live another week [too frozen to harvest] Jessica Meyers and Jeff Kearns [fell …

We know there are still folks cleaning up from Super Bowl XLVIII. These are their stories. Your OCD Roommate Not only did she block plays by constantly picking up during the game, much to the dismay of your friends, but she was up until 3am pressure washing the tile in your bathroom to …

The American Action Forum recently launched ACADictionary.com as an unbiased health care policy resource. Despite its exhaustive collection of over 600 words, acronyms, or phrases we collected a few they missed and ought to add. Chronic Capitol Lounge-itis: When you want to go out, but don’t want to leave the …

Richard Barnhill has a passion for the wide open sky- he’s a NOAA expert by day. Barnhill captured this stunning long exposure of a plane coming into Reagan National airport.

You look like you could use a little pick-me-up. Bolster yourself with Ira Glass’s life pep talk and interject some creativity into your existence.

A tipster sent in this early morning photo of Perlmutter’s door on the 4th floor of LHOB. We can’t help but wonder- how long will this poster stay?

This Sunday, the MetLife Stadium will host two titans of the 2013-2014 football season, the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos. The Broncos have two NFL championships under their belts, making the Seahawks this year’s underdogs. What will happen during this drama-charged game? Who will win? Who will lose? Don’t call …