I have used wide-area wireless 3G networks for Internet access for about three years now and love it. I recently wrote a Plus Edition article entitled "A Better (Cheaper) Method of Obtaining Wi-Fi Service" in which I described my experiences with 3G wireless networks. My article is still available at http://eogn.com/wp/?p=11357 Now I see that the New York Times has an article by David Pogue on the same subject and his experiences seem to parallel mine. The remainder of this article is for Plus Edition subscribers only. If you have a Plus Edition user ID and password, you can read...

Here's a bit of historical trivia: the size of the books you read and even the size of your fancy new e-reader are determined by sheep in the Middle Ages. First, the easy part: e-readers are replacements for books and most manufacturers deliberately make their e-readers resemble books. Most of the e-reader manufacturers assume that customers want to continue the same "look and feel" so they create e-readers that are the same sizes as books. Now for the more interesting part: how is the size of books determined? Carl Pyrdum provides the answers in his Got Medieval blog at http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-are-books-so-big-google-penance.html...

The National Gazetteer of Gaelic Place Names is available in English and Gaelic. Currently it contains information on about 1000 Gaelic place names throughout Scotland. You can do a simple search by keyword, and advanced search (across several fields) or view all place names from A-Z. In addition to the Gaelic names database the site also has some Gaelic maps, guidelines to Gaelic place names and orthography, a link list, and a blog. You can find the new Online Database for Gaelic Place Names at http://www.ainmean-aite.org/