Wi-Fi hotspots where you wouldn’t expect them

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It’s getting a lot harder to unplug these days. With Internet-enabled smart phones, like the iPhone and Blackberry, you can latch on to a wireless access point just about anywhere: malls, libraries, coffee shops, airports and now airplanes. Check out our Weird Wi-Fi Hotspots photo gallery for a look at about a dozen rather unusual Net-enabled locales that include grocery stores, a hair salon, laundromats and a car wash. That’s right: a car wash.

-- Mark Milian

Milian is an intern with latimes.com

Wi-Fi hotspot photo by Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times