as i mentioned earlier, sommer and i headed to the hay adams bar, off the record, last night for some fancy drinks and a classy atmosphere. because we are nothing if not two classy broads. for those who don't know, the hay adams is one of the fanciest, most elegant hotels in the city; it's located on 16th and H streets, very close to the white house. the bar itself is incredibly classic and timeless looking: low lights, heavy, polished wood paneling, and a customer age average of about 55 - mostly men in suits. i had been told by fritz that john, the bartender, was amazing, and he was totally right. john made our night. he is an incredibly jovial guy who is smart, well-traveled, and a great conversationalist. not to mention that he passed out free drinks when he learned i was leaving for chicago. overall, sommer and i had a great time - a little too great of a time. if you know what i'm sayin. after four drinks each, a plate of fries, and some interesting conversation with our bar stool neighbors, we left the hay adams nearly five hours after we arrived. unfortunately, the atmosphere of the hay adams is such that it's not really conducive to taking photographs, so i didn't get any interior shots (except one of me and sommer in the totally awesome bathroom), but i will leave you with some of the area between the bar and the white house. it was a beautiful evening, and i was glad to have a chance to walk around the area.

To Metafilter users: first, sorry I can't respond in your own thread. I don't want to pay five dollars to post in a blog's comments. But I did want to clarify that I only started calling the form thingy a hack after others did. Yeah, okay, I do like the sound of it. But no, clearly this is sub-sub-script kiddie level trickery, not anything impressive at all. What can I say? A search for "butterstick" on packetstorm doesn't return any hits.

But it did at least appear to work initially. As Catherine pointed out in your comments, it's only today that it ceased to function. The whole thing is a testament to the zoo webdev's laziness, not my personal awesomeness.

Now I promise to stop talking about this, because, as mentioned, it's gotten way more attention than it deserves. The name is the thing, people. Butterstick. Say it with me. Make t-shirts. Spread the word.

It's been fun basking in blogospheric attention for an HTML hack that could be performed by any number of middle-schoolers. But, sadly, a commenter has pointed out that the zoo is on to us -- the butterstick submission form no longer works. I'll try to have another look at it tonight, but it's likely that there's nothing to be done. On the upside, this means that there probably were votes labeled "butterstick" making their way into the zoo database. Which is pretty great.

Catherine suggested explaining the hack, so for those interested, a rundown of the relevant webdev principles is behind the cut. The rest of you should start thinking about the next step in fomenting the Pale Yellow Revolution.

not that anyone else cares, but it could be kind of interesting:

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (publisher of Washingtonpost.com) has signed up Proteus to launch its mobile content offering…nothing too dramatic at the moment: a system that lets readers send “optimized search results for the Entertainment Guide’s shopping, dining and event listings to their mobile phones via a new “send to a phone” option” and a mobile photo contest, where readers will “have the opportunity to send or upload their favorite mobile phone snapshots of community events, and online readers will be able to vote on their favorite submissions”.

the send to phone option, pretty standard, but the mobile photo thing could be neat. at least, the concept is neat. the execution could be retardedly awful. the voting thing, for example. eh.

(via paidcontent.org)