DCentric

Good morning, DCentric readers! Welcome back from your three-day weekend. While you were enjoying balmy, mild temperatures, we were out shopping for links:

Haunted by 9/11, an inventor figures out how to save people in skyscrapers “Oddly, I remember thinking about fishing. If it’s possible to reel in a 400-pound fish, I wondered, why can’t someone “reel out” a 400-pound person? As an orthopedic surgeon and serial inventor—I hold more than 50 medical patents related to knee and joint surgery—I started making notes right away.” (newsweek.com)

Teenage girl among 3 people shot in NE “The incident appeared to be the most violent in the metropolitan area in the first two days of the long Labor Day weekend. None of the victims’ wounds was believed to be life-threatening…” (The Washington Post)

Uncover your eyes: Michaele Salahi is NOT posing for Playboy “A spokesperson for Salahi and her husband, however, later called the report “just another rumor.”” (theimproper.com)

Markus Batchelor is the Youth Mayor, founder of a non-profit, from Congress Heights– and just 17 years old. “Batchelor says he plans to have his own name “on a local ballot sometime very soon, possibly even as soon as 2012,” and would like to sit on the D.C. Council by the end of the decade. “I definitely want to be mayor of the District at some point,”” (NBC Washington)

Did you know today is “Terrible Traffic Tuesday”? “The return of the masses to work will coincide with resumption of roadwork that took the holiday weekend off.” 1.5 million of you will rive to work alone today, in the D.C.-area. (The Washington Post)

The Co-creators of “Chuck” and “Gossip Girl” are setting their next pilot in DC. “…an untitled pilot at ABC that, according to Variety, centers on twentysomething roommates who “juggle their personal and professional lives in Washington” and “find that the ideals that brought them to D.C. don’t always match with the realities of living in the nation’s capital.”” (popwatch.ew.com)

Anonymous Robocall Attacks Jim Graham – DCist “The call was anonymous, with no message indicating who was behind it or who financed it…(the call) features a woman’s voice telling the listener that Jim Graham paid for an abortion for his chief of staff’s girlfriend. The narrator then goes on to describe Graham as “immoral” and “wretched.”" (DCist)