• Video of the week: A dancing polar bear and a Daft Punk soundtrack with voiceover by Coolio took first prize at a student environmental film competition in England.
• Shocker of the week: Putting lithium in your water reduces your risk of suicide! And putting Viagra in your water increases your risk of…well, we’ll let you figure it out.
• Web-hosting company GoDaddy is using its .tv domain names to educate people about the sinking island of Tuvalu.
As if bad government responses to swine flu aren’t enough, now there are bad technical ones too: a swine flu iPhone app that keeps tabs on the status of the pandemic (is it one yet?) and maps the latest cases.
So, um, if you’re planning a trip to Mexico City on the go, your phone can now warn you not to.
Image: IntuApps
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