back to basics

Today I learned that warning labels on cigarettes make smokers want to smoke more (assuming it's not just seeing cigarette packaging), so PR will kill you. In other things that'll kill you, I must also report that a motoring journalist (he's British) has cheerfully listed all the ways motorcycles will kill you.

In semi-death related news, Ron Pawl is looking into whether or not cell phones give people nervous system tumors, and <nerd alert> the editors of that article allowed ELF as the abbreviation for electromagnetic field, when in fact, researchers are worried about extremely low frequency (ELF) radiation, not just any old EM field, or EMF </nerd alert>.