Honda will settle a class-action suit, filed last September, pertaining to premature brake wear on its current-generation Honda Accord and Acura TSX models. The suit claims that the rear brake pads on its 2008-09 Accord and 2009 Acura TSX, along with a small number of 2010 models, have an unjustifiably short lifespan of just 15,000 to 20,000 miles.

As the road and mountain bike seasons move into full swing, I am busily working on my sport psychology internship with the coaches of Carmichael Training Systems (CTS) where I have the wonderful opportunity to assist in their holistic approach of integrating mental and physical training into their athletes' training programs.

According to a report in the Independent today, a research study has shown that transcendental meditation could be effective in treating depression in older adults. Two studies of more than 100 patients at risk of heart disease showed that those who practised the technique experienced a reduction in depressive symptoms of up to 48 percent.

Yesterday's DC circuit court decision ruled that the US FCC has no authority to impose network neutrality rules. Comcast, you'll remember, was doing some hinky stuff where they looked at what you were doing online... then if they didn't like something that you wanted to send or receive over the Internet, they wouldn't deliver those bits.

Yesterday, much to the relief of many who had protested the service, Digg announced that they are axing the DiggBar as part of their service once the new version of their site launches. The move is going to be widely welcomed by those who protested the original DiggBar for the way it handled content.

As citizens and consumers it has always been pretty easy to filter and choose who we trust. Media and advertisers have done most of the job for us. The internet has challenged some of our trust decisions and has cemented others. New media (social networks, social media, crowd-sourcing sites, micro-blogging, etc) has and will have greater impact on how we calculate trust and reputation.

A few months back I started writing a GStreamer element for converting MusicXML into MIDI, the eventual goal of this from my perspective is to allow for score editing inside Jokosher (without Jokosher having to deal with all the pain of the MIDI format itself).

Foreign Policy ponders the question after the release of this video that shows the murder of civilians by an Apache attack helicopter. The video is not safe for work or to be shown to kids. Yet, we wouldn't be seeing the guns at all if not for a sustained campaign by Wikileaks. At its best, the rise of Wikileaks represents the type of accountability journalism made famous in the 1970s by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of Watergate fame, and practiced today by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker and Eric Lichtblau and James Risen of the New York Times -- and Seymour Hersh in both eras.

Brands are boring because they're not human. They're companies. And, despite recent Supreme Court decisions to the contrary, companies are not human. They are abstractions that make business possible.

One of the strongest and most talented fields ever assembled for a U.S. cycling race has been invited to the upcoming 2010 Amgen Tour of California, AEG, owner and operator of the eight-day event, which is considered to be the most popular and important professional race held on U.S. soil, announced today.

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