So are we seriously supposed to believe that an American fascist is the only person in the history of writing to extol the virtues of small-town living?

There are lots of good reasons to criticize Palin, but this one seems to be on the level of criticizing Eisenhower for building the interstate highway system because Hitler implemented the idea first.

Oh, and no other airport I've been in that offers free WiFi censors it -- and I'm a United Airlines 1K like the guy in the story's addendum, so I've seen a few.

DIA's WiFi has been so slow as to be unusable ever since they moved from a pay- to free- system. I suspect it's a combination of increased volume and the fact that they have to do some serious (and I would argue, potentially illegal) deep-packet modification to insert advertisements into all of your unencrypted HTTP. It was pretty clear to me that the advertising system was poorly written; it looked like something out of 1998, and slowdowns were so bad (often caused by the banner ads' loading, not the remote sites) that loading on many pages would time out.

The good news is that they haven't blocked port 22, so it's entirely possible to SSH out and use a SOCKS proxy to browse the Web instead, or connect to a VPN. But that really shouldn't be necessary, and the fact remains that the connection is so slow as to be unusable. DEN must be aware of this, but they haven't done anything about it in three or four months now. Maybe this is because they also have pay-per-minute "Internet cafés" scattered around the terminals that you can use to play WoW or browse the Web.

Does anyone know why eBook versions aren't available? I really don't like buying dead-tree copies of books now that I have an iLiad Reader. Seems like she's released CC-licensed stuff before, so she's pretty tech-savvy.