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Meet Beelzebufo 'The frog from hell'

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2008-02-20 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...endemic frog fauna, the biogeographic history of which has generated intense debate, fueled by recent molecular phylogenetic analyses and the near absence of a fossil record. Here, we describe a recently discovered Late Cretaceous anuran that differs strikingly in size and morphology from extant Malagasy taxa and is unrelated either to them...
 
 
 
 
 
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Finns can now open public toilets with SMS

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2008-02-04 09:08:21 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...endemic vandalism, and the countrys Road Administration hopes the open by SMS can reduce the number of toilets beings demolished. The system is easy to use, and in order to do their thing, people will have to send a text message OPEN to the number given on the door. The call is directed to a modem, which then sounds a buzzer and opens the...
 
 
 
 
 
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SMS opens doors to toilets in some rest areas along Highway 1 in Western Finland

2008-02-05 00:04:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
Novel method seen as a means of combating vandalism As a result of continued and endemic vandalism, the Finnish Road Administration has developed a system which allows travellers to open the doors to roadside toilets only by sending a SMS message to the number given by the Road Administration. The new system was introduced in January in the rest...
 
 
 
 
 
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Liberian Government Handing out Free Mobile Phones

2008-02-06 12:02:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...endemic in the country following the demobilization of militia groups which formed during the civil wars of the 1990's. Most of the young adults who gave up their arms have not found replacement jobs and turned to violent crime. Liberia currently has an approximate 85% unemployment rate, the second highest in the world (The highest is 90% on...
 
 
 
 
 
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Why Are Projector Bulbs So Expensive?

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2008-03-13 18:12:04 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...endemic to the model.) I priced out new bulbs and they're all about $300-400, depending on the source. What is a real pisser is that I could buy a used AE-900U on eBay for around the same price, making it clear that the only thing of real value inside a projector is a fresh, new bulb It's got to be a racket, right? I understand that those...
 
 
 
 
 
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Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?

2008-03-14 17:16:31 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...endemic to all cultural groups that are sending their best and brightest to college for the first time My self-quote above, while safely twee, more-or-less sums up how I feel about it: there are tons of overarching cultural issues that have come into play to prevent or retard the addition of black people to our relatively cloistered world of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Why Are Projector Bulbs So Expensive?

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2008-03-13 18:12:04 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...endemic to the model.) I priced out new bulbs and they're all about $300-400, depending on the source. What is a real pisser is that I could buy a used AE-900U on eBay for around the same price, making it clear that the only thing of real value inside a projector is a fresh, new bulb It's got to be a racket, right? I understand that those...
 
 
 
 
 
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Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?

2008-03-14 17:16:31 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...endemic to all cultural groups that are sending their best and brightest to college for the first time My self-quote above, while safely twee, more-or-less sums up how I feel about it: there are tons of overarching cultural issues that have come into play to prevent or retard the addition of black people to our relatively cloistered world of...
 
 
 
 
 
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HP to finally ship the iPAQ 900 series business phone

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2008-06-10 15:47:00 by Nilay Patel in Engadget
...endemic to the iPAQ line), it looks like the device is finally set to start shipping. Nothing much has changed, except that a Windows Mobile 6.1 device with a 2.46-inch display, WiFi, GPS, HSDPA, and a 3 megapixel camera isn't exactly the hot sheets it was almost a year ago. That said, that chubby case hides a 1800mAh battery, which should...