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WiFi and Cordless phones can get along just fine.  Yes; there can be snags but they can be worked around and, in general, with a little care it will just work.  In any case, none of the snags are fatal and all can be solved.

The brief how-to for WiFi & cordless is below but first just a brief note about our good friend Comcast.

The instigation of this post is a notice posted on Twitter.com (aka, a "tweet") reporting that a new Comcast telephone service customer was told by the service installer that it is "not an option"  to use her cordless phone and a wireless WiFi router together. 

That's not correct.

This probably sounds goofy to some and just fun to some of us, but a Twitter connected tweeting houseplant gizmo is a pretty swell idea. No; really.

Some will see right away that this is yet another way that Twitter makes sense.  For the rest of you, check it out: a little tiny message from a plant in your house sent directly to you whenever the plant is thirsty.  Helpful, easy and very cool.  (Still not sure how Twitter itself makes a living but the ... what, me worry?)

Downside: $99. Each. Unassembled.  Earth to ThinkGeek... financial crisis??? Hello?

Really dowwwn side:  It has an ethernet interface but no WiFi.  It was working conceptually until you get to the idea of running Cat5 cables to all of your plants. That's too weird even for a geek.

ThinkGeek: two fixes -- well three if you count the price being too high -- but technically two things:
1. Get a trickle of electricity from differential on the rods
2. WiFi. (I mean, seriously!)

Anyway; it does look like fun and the underlying idea is tres cool. Just needs some polishing on the execution. (But; don't we all?)  Check it out at ThinkGeek.com.