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Xeni Jardin at 11:19 am Wed, Jun 1, 2011

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Anonymous

    Turns out holding it the wrong way reduces brain cancer risk. Job’s was right after all; It was a feature not a bug!

    • PaulR

      Holding it wrong might give you less brain cancer, but it’ll give you more finger cancer.

  • Smoobly

    I thought it was AT&T that was notorious for dropping calls. In fact, for the year-and-a-half my jailbroken iPhone was on T-Mobile, it rarely dropped calls. Since I switched to AT&T in December (3G data is a harsh mistress), the same cannot be said.

    The data is great, but the phone service sucks. Swell.

    • emmdeeaych

      cell phones are notorious for dropping calls. some more than others, sure, but this was funny.

      • m1ndtr1p

        “cell phones are notorious for dropping calls.”

        No, not all cell phones, only the iPhone.