Month January 2005

Cell phone virus infects Lexus cars Lexus cars may be vulnerable to viruses that infect them via mobile phones. It is understood the virus could affect the navigation system of the Lexus models, it transfers onto them via a Bluetooth…

Eating At fast-food restaurants more than twice per week is associated with more weight gain and insulin resistance in otherwise healthy young adults. Young adults who eat frequently at fast-food restaurants gain more weight and have a greater increase in…

From Fortune magazine, no lessPocasting. From MTV to MP3. In the ’80s ponytailed heartthrob Adam Curry broke ground as one of MTV’s first veejays. Two decades later Curry, 40, has popped up at the intersection of blogs and radio. In…

U.S. apparently underestimated size of insurgency, top commander says “Apparently?” U.S. forces killed or captured about 15,000 suspected militants in Iraq last year, the top U.S. commander in the country said Wednesday, suggesting that the American military has underestimated the…

Reader Steve Betheil emailed us about his water secrets blog. Check it out. It covers “purification, filtering and the safety issues of bottled water, well water and municipal water supplies.” Among his recent postingsStudy: Bottled water no safer than tap…