Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

...in sunny Brighton. Time to hope on a train and soak up the bandwidth along with the rays?

The service, called PiertoPier, is being offered free to anyone who has the right gear and relies on volunteers and donations to keep it alive.

Mind you, I have it on the roof here in Putney, so it's WiFi in the rain today!

[article found on BBC News]

...can be found at Salon in the shape of "Love in the age of spyware". A rather lovely little story of humans and AIs by William Shunn

(you can get a free "Day Pass" which will allow you to read the whole thing, in return for watching an advert...)

Using a Mozilla browser? Jealous of your IE-using friends and their Google toolbar?

No need to worry!

Here's an independently developed version for Mozilla, Firebird et al...

From today's Onion:

"Turkmenistan Whistles Casually, Moves Border A Few Miles East"