If such a serious publication like CIO Magazine wants to save the frogs, why not help them?
The story is about websites offering virtual frog dissection. I used Google to search for this exact subject and I found about 7,000 references. Pretty popular, isn't?
CIO Magazine mentions only three sites. One of those, the virtual frog dissection kit from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, allows you to check "Fluffy" the frog. You can select to see "Fluffy" with or without skin. And you can select the organs you want to see.
Are you still with me? OK, now, I have to introduce you to my preferred site, Froguts.com. You'll need the Flash 6 plugin to enjoy it. Here is the comment on the site.
A trip here yields the most compelling online frog dissection experience. Visitors click and drag scalpels and scissors along cut marks to open skin flaps and remove organs. As they come out, just-in-time text pops up to explain the function of each organ. High-quality images and sound effects (including the snip of scissors and the whoosh of pins through skin flaps) will take you right back to junior high biology class.
Anyway, most of these sites are only showing *common* frogs.
Let me tell you about my favourite frogs. I saw -- and heard -- them in Martinique. They were so huge that they were called "mountain chicken."
As I never tasted them, I can't tell you if they deserve this nickname.
Source: Alice Dragoon, CIO Magazine, August 15, 2002 Issue
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