DCentric

Good morning, DCentric readers! I promise that this morning roundup will not contain a single reference to “Glee“– oh, wait…sorry. Allow me to distract you from my failure with these links!

I didn’t even know Library kiosks existed, did you? “Back in 2008, the D.C. Public Library decided to close five neighborhood kiosks, the tiny one-room libraries set up during the 1970s in some of the city’s poorer neighborhoods to increase access to books where full-service libraries didn’t yet exist. Many of those neighborhoods were getting new libraries, the Board reasoned, and the kiosks weren’t very well-used anyway…” (Washington City Paper)

How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson “Mark used his site, TheFacebook.com, to look up members of the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson. Then he examined a log of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. If the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members’ Harvard email accounts. He successfully accessed two of them. In other words, Mark appears to have used private login data from TheFacebook to hack into the separate email accounts of some TheFacebook users.” (The Business Insider)

Cathy Lanier Won’t Exactly Go Broke if She’s Fired “”Lanier’s retirement pension shall be fully vested and fully payable and vested at the maximum level allowable by law, notwithstanding Lanier’s age or term of service,” her contract reads. That means if presumptive Mayor to-be Vince Gray decides to let her go, Lanier will be able to retire at the ripe-old-age of 43…Adding a little cherry on top, if she’s fired, she also gets the typical three months of severance pay.” (Washington City Paper)

National Sex Study Confirms Need To Encourage Female Condom Use “The report also showed that women, in general, were less likely to use condoms then men…Given these figures, the District’s campaign to give away and encourage use of female condoms looks like money well spent. Based on these statistics, though, a ramped-up effort to encourage women to carry male condoms with them for their partners to use is probably just as good an idea…” (DCist)

Gray preaching unity, big 2012 budget woes “”We are a city of 600,000 people and we ought to be working hard on how we bridge the gap between us,” Gray said. “The reality is we have a geographic division, an economic division and unfortunately, we have a racial division in this city.” The chairman, who won the primary with the heavy support of black voters, then reiterated the tenets of his campaign platform of continuing school reform, adult education as a method of reducing unemployment, and adding police officers to improve community policing efforts.” (Washington Examiner )

Staten Island men busted in bias attack on D.C. man at Stonewall gay bar “”I was never afraid, throughout the whole experience…To so many of these bullies, they think that gay people are an easy target, and that we’re just going to give in. Those two guys found out that night that’s not the case,” said the scrappy Washington, DC, resident.” (New York Post)

VIDEO: “Knocked Up” actress Charlyne Yi takes on TMZ after they attack her work for Oxfam If you don’t hate TMZ, you might now (Thanks, Jay Smooth) – “Perhaps it is foolish to upload this on the account that is me, one tiny person versus… TMZ. But sometimes, there are things worth standing up for. There are important things like having the opportunity to help the lives of future generations, and there are things that are not important, like trash TV. And sometimes it’s nice to stand up for what you believe in, even if it’s very scary.” (youtube.com)