Don't go to massfarmersmarkets.org. Looks like it's been hacked. Aaron Weber reports getting unsafe warnings when he tries to link to it. Naturally, I'm an idiot, so I tried anyway, and got what appears to be an ISP home page.

The MBTA is equipping 11 ferry boats with WiFi.

Continuing the trend for ISPs to offer less service for more money, Verizon announced on their website that they're no longer going to be carrying Usenet groups beyond the "Big Eight" hierarchies. They didn't really explain why.

Apparently they're using Little CuCuomo's attempt to fight kiddie porn to justify their reduction of services. They're dropping the entire "alt" hierarchy and others such as the regional "ne" one. This represents something like 90% of Usenet. Couldn't they just filter the offending newsgroups?

I'm still on the fence about whether it was a good idea to drop Comcast and go to FiOS. Comcast had Usenet retention of several months. Verizon only gave you a week or so. With FiOS it takes over a minute to reconnect when my machine comes out of Hibernate mode; with Comcast it was instant. Comcast offers free McAfee protection; Verizon offers you a teaser trial download for a $5 monthy charge.

The Herald kicks off Monday with a nice depressing story:

A child porn possession charge lodged against a Department of Industrial Accidents investigator fired for having smut on his state-issued laptop has been dismissed because experts concluded he was unwittingly spammed.

Goes without saying that the department is refusing to give him his job back, and that he now intends to sue the department for "destroying our lives."

Take a trip to Chinatown, Will Ng reports.

93South profiles Templamatic, a startup that sells templates for Web sites.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is an initial partner with Google on a GMail-like system designed to give consumers easy access to all their medical records - and background information on any conditions, drug interactions and the like (and also targeted ads?). Medical Center CIO John Halamka explains the system, including ways patient data will remain confidential.

Mark Baard, a Beth Israel patient, immediately signed up. Didn't work - his records didn't transfer over.

... I deleted my Google Health account after this failed experiment. I will eat my hat if the data have truly been deleted from Google's databases.

Any possible benefits to consumers from Google Health clearly outweigh the privacy risks at this point. ...

The media were able to tour the new Apple Store on Boylston Street yesterday. Dan Moren with MacUser has some interesting thoughts on what's going to happen to the hollow glass column running down the center of the spiral staircase.

The public grand opening is at 6 PM today. 2,500 limited edition T-shirts are being given away.

Gizmodo says it's a good thing we're getting the world's largest Borg cube Apple store, because it will help us with that inferiority thing.

The Apple store on Boylston Street is set to open on May 16th at 6 PM. It is reportedly the largest such store in the world.