Skype for Free

Popular Science (along with everybody else and their grandmother) blogs that Skype is now free within the US and Canada to all landlines and mobiles, until at least the end of 2006. Free long distance, nice! Of course, you might not feel like it's worth it if you have to be tethered to your computer every time you want to make a call. Enter Wi-Fi handsets. You'll still need conventional phone service to take calls from anyone not using Skype.

I currently pay something like $0.03/minute for long distance using a prepaid calling card. At that rate it would take me almost 139 hours to pay for that $250 phone. Not gonna happen anytime soon. Still cool though.