Airborne: wardrivers find free internet

Oct 7

Written By David McNair

Airborne: wardrivers find free internet

Philadelphia mayor John F. Street is either completely out of his mind or a visionary who is completely out of his mind.

4Better Or Worse

The week in review
Biggest trial: Shawn Breeden and Michael Carpenter are found guilty in U.S District Court October 5 on charges relating to the murder of Kevin Lee Hester. Prosecutors are s...
The week in review
Most trespassers: The UVA Foundation charges 23 UVA students and their grad student teacher with trespassing September 23 for taking a detective-fiction class field trip to...

The Dish

Mamma mia: Italian chow controls the compass
It's not me and my Italian roots, I promise. Italian food really is dominating restaurant news in Charlottesville this week, starting with Rococo's, the veteran Italian-sty...

Essays

Your bong: Basis of 'narco-terrorism'?
Two cheers for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), whose latest public relations effort usefully reminds us that propaganda is not simply intellectually dishonest. I...

Question of the Week

What do you think of Wi-Fi?
David Warner: "I don't think anything of Wi-Fi. I don't know what it is." Jai Burke: "I bought a laptop because of it. It's great, it's free, and I can work outside. I li...

Real Estate - $old

$old
ALBEMARLE 8/2 Matthew B. and Kimberly B. Powers to Zhihong Zhang and Shujie Sha, 124 Deerwood Road, Deerwood, $214,900. Lee Jong and Rosy Kin-on King, trustees, to ...

Real Estate - On the Block

Rent-to-own: Little ticket to financial freedom
ADDRESS: 1111 Cottonwood Road ASKING: $194,900 BUILDING: 1120 fin. sq. ft. LAND: 0.126 acres YEAR BUILT: 1980 NEIGHBORHOOD: Wildwood CURB APPEAL: 5 of 10 LISTED BY: Win Woo...
What happened to on the blocks of the past?
APPEARED IN THE HOOK: July 31, 2003, in issue 0230 ADDRESS: 56 Pine Hill Lane, Norwood ASKING PRICE: $279,000 (house and 4.0 acres) $399,000 (house, 7.0 acres, schoolhouse)...

Real Estate Property auctions

Property auctions
October 8, at 10am, at the Greene County Courthouse Property: 2.002 acres at 3385 Tom's Road, Barboursville Debtor: unknown Amount owing: $99,358 Bidder brings: $10,000 or...

Movie Reviews

Flaky film: What a Load of #$*!
Being as stupid as David Letterman pretends to be, I like movies that make me feel intelligent. Mark Vicente, Betsy Chasse, and William Arntz, the makers of What the #$*! D...

Music Reviews

Fridays farewell: End of an era of Mall rockin'
Jimmy O BandFinal Fridays at the grassy amphitheaterOctober 1 Perhaps it was the weather– which since the afternoon had been threatening a colossal downpour– o...
Meditative tunes: Breathe, lean back, drift away
John Wubbenhorst and Facing East at the PrismSaturday, October 2 I regret to say that my college experience wasn't the best. I spent most of the four years attempting to s...

News

As suits loom: Clifton Inn sets winter rebirth
It's been nearly a year since an early-morning blaze gutted much of the Clifton Inn and took the lives of two guests, Trish Langlade and Billie Kellie, both recruiters visi...
Buddha in paper: Not-so holy roller still rolling
Killing the Buddha, an anthology of religious eccentricity co-written by local author Peter Manseau, is now available in paperback. Manseau, a fairly recent transplant to ...
Deal's off: Razor wire charges still stand
In the case of the Charlottesville vs. the concertina-stringing homeowner, signs were pointing toward a settlement when Shirley Presley appeared in court August 31. Both he...
End of Fridays? Slim crowd says goodbye to season
Indicted, hiding: Local company in Texas scandal
For a recently formed company, Charlottesville-based Questerra wasted no time in getting in trouble... in Texas. The story of the company's difficulties rose to national no...
Multiple choice: Tracking trails takes work
A trail by any other name is still a trail, right? Charlottesville officials– who officially changed the name of the Greenbelt Trail to the Rivanna Trail on October 2...
Nigeria's latest: Scam targets classified ad users
No sooner did the "urgent business proposal" emails die down– or at least did better spam filters kick in– than those wily Nigerians came up another plan to sc...
Orange, not red: City workers paint the town
If you've driven any of the streets leading to Scott Stadium in the last few weeks, you may have spied Charlottesville public works employees sanding off the old and paint...

The Brazen Careerist

KISS writing: Keep it short, silly
Almost one-third of workers do not meet the writing requirements of their positions, according to a survey by the College Board's National Commission on Writing. Before any...

Sports Doctor

SPORTS WRAP
Boldest coaching attitude: Fluvanna High School football coach Tap Pace decides to add some zest to local action as the regular season reaches the halfway point. Following...

Strange But True

Doggerel: Pups' yips say it all
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK Q. Some dogs come doggone close to talking. How close? –Snowy

Facetime

Miss America? Burps can't stop her victory
Even though we all prance around in front of the mirror every once in a while, most of us feel sort of ridiculous doing it. Erika Uhlig, however, has managed to parlay her...

Hotseat

King's ransom: Denny's television vision
The problem with trying to dissect would-be TV station owner Denny King is that somehow he manages to maintain constant eye contact even as his animated personality ...

Letters

AK-47s go auto quickly
Your correspondent Brian Wiedman [September 23 letter: "Get gun facts straight"] ably repeats the talking points promulgated by Wayne LaPierre and the NRA. (His letter is a...
Give Evie credit
I want to thank Lisa Provence for her article in the September 23 issue of The Hook, "Why Bother to Vote?" I'm writing to make one important clarification. The Public Servi...
TJ flipped early
Monticello was replaced on the nickel this year, first by the peace medal and right now by the Lewis & Clark keelboat [September 23: "Changing change: TJ gets a five-ce...
Was that necessary?
Was it really necessary to open old wounds [September 16, 2004, cover story: "Dave, Fame & Haines: Celebrity, suicide, & the etiquette of envy"] just to put Dave on...
Wine has good points
The letter by June Russell published September 23 ["Alcohol– even wine– harms"] raises some valid issues. It's true that alcoholic beverages hold in them both g...