The Plague of Frogs

jpbostic writes "According to this article on MSNBC, ag folks in Hawaii were considering using powdered caffeine to help rid themselves of an infestation of frogs from Puerto Rico. The EPA's application regulations apparently proved too burdensome and the stuff sits in a warehouse. If the EPA is really concerned with the danger, they should investigate the coffee in some restaurants *quoth the caffeine addict*. :-)"

Comments

Slow hunters?

[ElJefe]

On a smaller scale, of course, there is always hand-hunting, which is how Nilton Matayoshi has spent the last year capturing 40 frogs.

40 frogs in a year? That's less than one a week! If you're going to have a hobby, at least be good at it...

smiley noses

[tps12]

From the article description:

:-)

Excess noses cost Internet providers billions annually. Consider that the noseless ":)" conveys as much information as ":-)" at two-thirds the cost in bandwidth.

Slashdot, as a pillar of the Internet community, stands to make a real difference in the fight against smiley noses. It would be great if it could act as a role model in this important struggle.

Everyone: please run your messages through the following perl script to remove excess noses:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$_ = @ARGV ? shift @ARGV : ;
chomp;
s/([:;8B?|\%])[-o^]([\)\(|PB9oO\@0{Xx\*D&])/$1$2/g ; BR> print;
print "\n";

Note this is a beta version. It only handles one-line messages, and only "right-handed" smileys. Improvements are forthcoming, and patches are welcome.

Spiders and Caffeine

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a spider's web. This is a spider's web on caffeine.

(pic)

(Trust me, the link is relevant.)

Any questions?

Caffeine is a drug that seems to have a stronger impact on small animals.