Ellen Goodman, in her syndicated column, writes that some restaurants are installing phone booths so that customers who want to talk on a cellphone have a place to go and do so without disturbing everyone else. A nice idea, and a neat compromise between those who feel they can't even get through a meal without answering the phone and those that feel they can.
Public phone booths in some cities are being hooked up with DSL lines by the phone company and are being turned into WiFi hot spots. Another neat idea, and a sensible one for the phone company, which already has the phone line to the booth that is needed to provide the Internet access.