Category: Digital health
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Teen with cancer creates his own musical goodbye wishes
(via Zach Sobiech, Teen With Cancer, Records Touching Song To Say Goodbye (VIDEO)) Related articles Dying Teen Sings Farewell Song (foxnews.com) “Clouds,” a song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient Zach Sobiech (boingboing.net) Teenager with cancer writes a song to say goodbye (telegraph.co.uk) A song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient (scienceroll.com)
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Straight Talk and other pay as you go iPhone carriers
(via Straight Talk: It could let you dump AT&T or T-Mobile — Mobile Technology News) Related articles Consumer Reports: Prepaid Phone Plan Can Be Smart Way To Save (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com) Revealed: Secrets of a smartphone bill under $50 (redtape.nbcnews.com) Prepaid Phone Plans Give U.S. Cell Phone Users a Choice in a Post Paid World (z6mag.com) A…
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T Mobile as an alternative to iPhone mobile carrier contract lock in
(via NYC and 13 more cities get T-Mobile’s iPhone-friendly upgrade — Apple News, Tips and Reviews) Related articles You Can Finally Change Your iPhone’s Carrier Logo Without Jailbreaking (cultofmac.com) Life After The iPhone: How AT&T’s Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company (forbes.com)
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Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length
This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length smithsonianmag.com If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s really long nose hairs. Which is perhaps why Clean Air Asia has decided to start visualizing each person’s air pollution exposure as super-long, disgusting nose hairs. The group says: The more… This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution…
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Things banned by the Bible punishable by death
76 things banned in the Bible, most of which are punishable by death Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net An oldie but goodie single-purpose Tumblr listing things banned in Leviticus, the banny-est of all scriptures. The sex stuff you can imagine (no bonking animals, dudes if you are a dude, divorcées, your grandmother, or your own children… RT…
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Location based culture data app
Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sunlight Foundation that helps you to learn more about your surroundings in seconds. Sitegeist takes public data about the people, housing, history, environment and thing……
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Case lets you film people with an iPhone laying flat (like presidential campaign fund raisers)
iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The MirrorCase for the iPhone lets you take photos while holding the phone flat, like an old-timey camera. It seems like a good way to shoot video of yourself, too – just set it on a table and do your thing.…
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A bike horn that helps you avoid homicidal drivers
Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net An outstanding Kickstarter project – a bike horn that is as loud as a car horn! Cycling in traffic can be frightening and dangerous. The Loud Bicycle horn prevents accidents by alerting motorists with a familiar sound. The safety benefits of … RT @BoingBoing: Loud…
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Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies
Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events,” a paper published in the ACM’s Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Institute of Information… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics…
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