Google offering free Wi-Fi

The other day Google announced that it was going to launch its free wi-fi service in Mountain View, CA. Now, the author of the article says that Google "simply has more money than sense," but what do you think? I'm thinking that they want to find a way to track users. Ok, maybe not that, but at least get an idea of usage levels, then roll it out to the rest of the country, monetizing this "free" service with restrictions (e.g. a new interstitial initiated by the service? shown every 15 minutes of use? pop-unders?). I know they aren't in favor of overt ad-spamming, but they've got something up their sleeve, that's for sure.

More money than sense my @$$.

AOL Digging For Gold...Literally

In a fantastic article, AOL, after winning a large multi-million dollar settlement from a spammer and not being able to collect from him, wants to dig near his parents' house to see if they can find GOLD that he supposedly buried there!

Apparently he made millions off spamming people and hides his money by burying it! I love this story.