I've owned a half dozen and configured well over another dozen wireless routers over the years. The airports are the only ones that seem to ever work consistently. It pisses me off because the little bastards are expensive, but everything else I've ever bought has been a piece of crap. You're constantly resetting the damn things, half the PCs you try to use with them are unable to work with whatever particular flavor of WPA encryption the vendor has decided to partially support. It's a nightmare. Get the airport.

Hmm, it doesn't say all current iPhone owners. In fact, it doesn't explicitly call out iPhone owners at all. It just says those who are "eligible" for an upgrade pay $199/$299, and those who aren't pay the higher price.

I bought an iPhone in October and I just logged in to my ATT account to see if I'm eligible for the cheaper price and it appears that I am, which fits with earlier reports that existing iPhone owners would pay the $199 price.

After May 27th? You mean after all the stores had run out of iPhones? That's pretty generous of them...

Looks like that start-up is going to CONSUME MASS QUANTITIES of venture capital...

It wouldn't be the first time that they constructed a fake Apple store. Apple is already on record saying that they built at least two "prototype" stores in an empty warehouse before they got the design right.

It's OBVIOUSLY a partially-digested femur with intact acetabulofemoral joint from an ancient hominid. Most likely torn off by a ravenous man-eating Pleocine clam.

http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/smithsonian.asp

Ars is, without question, the best tech-oriented site on the web. Wired.com has been terrific recently as well.

Two great tastes that taste great together.

*sigh* I owned all three of those ugly spaceships. Back in my day you had to use your IMAGINATION when you played with your Legos. Kids these days are so spoiled with all their special pieces. We had rectangular bricks, and we loved them! We used to YEARN for a 3x1x1 slanty piece. YEARN!!!

@HONIBEHR: Fair enough. I'm not familiar with World Corp outside of their ominous name and pretty cool Django framework, but it certainly sounds bad that they control that much media in any town.

I do, however, wonder if Corey's head would explode when faced with an evil monopoly that was also an active member of the open source software community. The cognitive dissonance must be staggering.

Interesting, the World Company is internet famous for bringing us Django, the open source (BSD License) Python MVC/MTV framework. But I'm sure Corey is far more interested in painting them as an evil monopoly in this case.

I have the Sony "smart" charger from amazon which comes with four 2500mah AA batteries for just under $20.

http://tinyurl.com/2sz94g

Be careful to get the one that has the automatic cutoff, there's several identical-looking models that have different specs, and the price difference is only a couple dollars.

Doesn't appear to be as sophisticated as the MAHA chargers people are recommending, but it has worked well enough for me (I use it for my wii-mote batteries.)