Blue box (disambiguation)

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"Blue box" may refer to:

• Blue box, an early phreaking tool that simulates a telephone operator's dialing console.
• Blue box, a distinctive plastic container for the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario's recycling programs, often called the 'Blue Box program'.
• Blue Box, an album by Kate Ceberano released in 1996.
• Blue Box, a Doctor Who novel.

• A common nickname for a British Police box.
• A nickname for the TARDIS, a spacecraft and time machine shaped like the above mentioned British police boxes, from the TV series Doctor Who.
• The internal moniker for the Classic environment in Mac OS X before naming.
• A windows shell replacement based on the BlackBox window manager for Unix
• The name of a recently reissued guitar effects pedal originally made by the MXR company in the 1970s.
• A section of the negotiation in the agricultural sector of the WTO Doha Round
• The occasional name of the Bluescreen film and video technique.
• The occasional meteorological name for a severe thunderstorm watch.
• A descriptive term used by the American Express company to refer to themselves.
• A device installed on board water vessels that sends data to a satellite system, which transmits them to a land base station which, in turn, sends them to the appropriate monitoring centre.
• The use name of a plot device from the Animorphs series of science fiction books by K. A. Applegate.

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