From OpenTable.com:

DC Restaurant Week
Gourmet Prix-Fixe Menus
August 11-17, 2008

Enjoy special three-course, prix fixe menus at some of the city’s best restaurants.

Pricing: $20.08 lunches, $3035.08 dinners; prices are per person and do not include beverage, tax or gratuity

DC’s tourism site doesn’t have the list of restaurants up yet, but the official announcement date is July 23. I’m pretty sure that OpenTable’s list of participating venues is accurate though. Some sources are saying the dinner cost may be $35.08, which wouldn’t be in line with previous years, but could be a nod to our we’re-not-in-a-recession.

I’ve gotten co-workers to head out for an upscale group lunch before and taken advantage of at least one dinner out when Restaurant Week rolls around. Tables at “popular” dining times can go fast, so flexibility is advised. If there’s a place you’ve been itching to try, Restaurant Week is a good way to test the waters and get a nice reasonably priced night out.

Update: The Washington Post has a full list of restaurants.

Update 2: $35.08 for dinner is confirmed.

Gizmo Lovers and Dave Zatz both reported today on the TiVo & Amazon team-up to enable on-screen product purchasing:

By teaming with Amazon.com, TiVo enables viewers to purchase products related to their favorite TV shows or that they’ve seen in TV ads without leaving their couch. For example, if a guest on the Daily Show or Oprah has a new book, CD, or DVD out, you can purchase it on Amazon.com using your TiVo remote without missing a second of TV, whether the viewer is watching live or recorded. The viewer with an impulse can buy right away and no longer needs to remember to do so the next time they are at their PC.

The concept of shopping via TV is nothing new, obviously, but having the products offered by a (r)e-tailer that I actually trust? That could be a problem. Of course I don’t watch talk shows, so I’m safe for now at least. The NYT reports on TiVo potentially sharing this technology with other companies that have already integrated a version of their software into set-top boxes.

If this ever makes it to the Food Network or America’s Test Kitchen on PBS? I’m doomed.

The Wordpress for iPhone application is live and quite handy, actually. I doubt it can make me a great iPhone typist but it doesn’t appear to rely on being connected to a signal to work. You can’t edit previous online posts without a signal, however. It does hold local drafts in the application and like some other apps can use the iPhone’s camera and photo library to add pictures to your post, automatically added to the end of the entry. It offers a preview mode, but that is also limited when you’re offline.

I’m just playing around with it this morning since I haven’t anything to really write about. Though that can easily change with a metro ride.

I got stuck without a seat for a few stops and my 1-thumb typing sucks with this thing. But I think they did a good job on the app. Even though it was “coming soon” for a while after the iTunes app store opened, it seems like it was worth the wait.

Ed. Note: I did do some editing when I got to the office, since I like my URLs pretty now with just the post number and it uploaded the photos just fine, but stuck them all right after the post, one after the other. With no cut & paste, this app is definitely for quick no-frills entries when you’re outside the range of a cell/wifi signal. But it does the job and is perfect for something on the go when you plan to polish up an entry later on at a computer.