At least (and at last), that's the news from the US Department of Transportation. The Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, in a policy announcement reported in the “Autopia” blog at Wired, said that the department will aim to give as much weight to the needs of cyclists and pedestrians as it does to the needs of motorists.

Marijuana can be a promising treatment for some specific, pain-related medical conditions, according to California researchers who presented an update of their findings Wednesday to the California Legislature and also released them to the public. ”I think the evidence is getting better and better that marijuana, or the constituents of cannabis, are useful at least in the adjunctive treatment of neuropathy,” Igor Grant, MD, executive vice-chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California.

Yesterday, the Toronto Star had an excellent article about a new security threat introduced by, of all things, photocopy machines. It really makes no sense to have a strict security policy for your office computers, if the photocopier is down the hall passing out information to anyone who asks. These machines, like PBX equipment, need to be secured with the same care that the computers get.

I'm actually quite surprised I haven't seen a story like this before. According to a post on the Threat Level blog at Wired, a disgruntled former employee of Texas Auto Center, in Austin TX, managed to disable about 100 cars of the firm's customers, using a Web-based system that was intended to be a sort of electronic "Repo Man."

Frequent exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of renal cell carcinoma in men, according to a study published in the March 8th online edition of Cancer by a team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, MD.

Being happy is a choice, your choice. Only you can decide how you feel. You keep saying that others are "making" you act, feel, think, do; this just simply isn't true. You are the one with the power, you are the one with the choice to make about how to be or how to feel, act, or do.

As part of a settlement with the EU, on March 1 Microsoft introduced a "ballot screen" in Windows, which gives the user a choice of installing an alternative browser to IE. Microsoft's Browser "Ballot" Screen Microsoft has always maintained that there was no real need for this kind of mechanism, since users who wanted to use another browser could always download and install it. The BBC News has a report that, since the introduction of the ballot screen, downloads of the Opera browser have doubled, and that most of the download requests are coming from the new screen.

Last year a mutation in the HA gene of the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus was identified in isolates from patients with severe disease. At the time I concluded that the emergence of this change was not a concern. Recently the Norwegian Institute of Public Health reported that the mutation, which causes a change from the amino acid aspartic acid to glycine at position 225 of the viral HA protein (D225G), has been identified in 11 of 61 cases (18%) of severe or fatal influenza, but not in any of 205 mild cases.

China has become the world’s largest exporter, the main workshop, the major laboratory, the key farm and the World’s Bank. It takes place in the concert of nations without respecting the rules of the game. So, must we be afraid of China? Is it not an unfair and premature conclusion?

Demonstrations of iPhone and iPod Touch applications for groups can be awkward. The AV cables sold by Apple for the iPhone and iPod Touch support TV out, for playing videos users have saved in iTunes and have available for playback via the iPod functionality of their device, but screensharing for other apps is NOT currently supported with these cables.

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