The headline is an in-joke, but there's an explanation: Lightlink, an ISP in Ithaca, New York, offering mostly wireless broadband connections, has installed free hotspots around town in a promotional effort. My friends and colleagues Adam and Tonya Engst live in Ithaca, and I co-wrote The Wireless Networking Starter Kit with Adam (Tonya editing). They're even Lightlink customers. And Tonya was part of the group that decided on allowing Wi-Fi at the Tompkins County Public Library mentioned in the article. It's a small town, but I guess not that small.