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3:30PM Nick Broughall | This is great news for frequent travellers – Jetstar is trialling a system that lets you use an SMS message as your boarding pass, forgoing the need to actually print anything off. More »
Jetstar Trialling SMS Boarding Passes
3:30PM Nick Broughall | This is great news for frequent travellers – Jetstar is trialling a system that lets you use an SMS message as your boarding pass, forgoing the need to actually print anything off. More » 
Games
School Shows Students Dangers of Texting While Driving Using Mario Kart
3:00AM Jack Loftus | Vail Christian High School is taking this texting-while-driving thing seriously. So seriously, in fact, that they’ve brought in one of the most realistic driving simulators ever conceived to teach kids the dangers of this practice.
Phones
Texting While Driving Is Becoming Ridiculous
10:00AM Jason Chen | It’s pretty redundant to make laws outlawing texting while driving because it already falls under laws covering distracted driving, but holy crap, something needs to be done about it. More »
Phones
When Does A Text Message Cost You $9.6 Million?
12:00PM Jack Loftus | As one of our T drivers found out this week in Boston, it costs that much when you send it while driving the Green Line and plow into the back of a stopped train. More »
Phones
The Real Reason Text Messages Are 160 Characters
11:50PM Matt Buchanan | I always thought text messages were limited to 160 measly characters because of some archaic pre-1970s technical standard. But apparently, it’s because some German dude thought 160 was “perfectly sufficient.” More »
Random Stuff
Medieval SMS
12:50AM John Mahoney | Send mutton and mead to archer station on crenellation 4SW—can’t hold back the hordes on an empty stomach! K Thx :) [English Russia] More »
Phones
Teen Sends $US4800 Worth Of Text Messages, Dad Hammers Teen’s Phone
10:40AM Jason Chen | What’s worse than your teen sending 10,000 text messages, mostly during school? Her sending 10,000 text messages when you have no text message plan. More »
Design
Cell Stickies: How People With No Friends Get Text Messages
2:40AM John Mahoney | I can only imagine these acetate stickers (a mere concept, sadly) of the iPhone’s friendly SMS overlay being used to prank someone. But what a prank it would be. [Fiona Carswell via OhGizmo] More »
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