Breakfast Links: Midtown Wi-Fi, Ghostbusters & Manga
Well with the collapse of widespread muni-wifi and the questionable future of WiMax maybe the best we can hope for is the signficantly less ambitious free but sponsored wifi of the days of yore. CBS, por ejemplo, says it’s going to bring wifi to the midtown area between 42nd and the park - you know the drill you’ll first go to some CBS splash page with ads and some local content and then you get the wifi. The interesting thing is they’re working with the MTA to put hotspots up on MTA displays - maybe they’ll wire up some of the stations there - their coverage map hits a pretty dense area for train stations…
In other interesting news it turns out there’s a new Ghostbusters game in the works - it’s planning on being a sequel type of deal. What makes it interesting is that Murray, Ackroyd and Ramis are on board not just for voice acting but for script writing! Now that’s something to be interested in… Man, remember the old Ghostbusters game where you went around capturing ghosts to try and soup up your car? I loved that game. Hopefully this will be better.
Lastly check out wired’s Manga entry in their Geekipedia. They try to drop some knowledge on you by providing helpful manga categories with definitions and examples - this way you’d know that if you dig Naruto you’ll know you’re reading shonen. And:
If you’re a straight girl who wishes your relationships were more exciting…
looking for stories about a pair of pretty boys who enter into an illicit, violently sexual relationship
then check out the genre called yaoi
by reading My Sexual Harassment or Sensitive Pornograph
“My Sexual Harassment”? “Sensitive Pornograph”?? Oh, japan. But the hook of that page is their user submitted suggestion area where you can not only submit your own genres and recommendations you can vote on what others have done which, House of Pain style, will rise to the top. I know some of you have some ideas on this, get submitting and let me know, I’ll vote for yours!
November 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I have no idea why the state doesn’t pay for wi fi. It will only bring more business, weather online or not to Manhattan. God for bid they give you something for free. They are finally trying to kick OTB out because the state takes 100% of the profit and Manhattan gets nothing. Off set it with free wi fi :) Then you can bet anywhere.
November 16th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
I think that was the plan - lots of city governments were trying to get municipal level wifi going, but in relatively recent days they all collapsed for one reason or another. I guess it turns out to be really hard to do.
Seems to me doing something less grandiose, get something rolling for a small area see how it works and then expand around that would be more reasonable… but you know how governments are. So, now we’re back to free sponsored - which really is fine by me, too.