MInTheGap

I generally like to check out News of the Weird by Chuck Shepard every Monday.  Here are some weird news I thought I’d pass on:

• British
  entrepreneur Colin Dowse recently introduced Sprayonmud (about US$14 a
  quart), dirty water chemically treated for greater stickiness, mainly
  for urban SUV owners to pass themselves off as all-terrain adventurers.
  [Wired.com, 6-10-05]
• In the last few years, Taiwan
  entrepreneurs have opened restaurants with motifs such as prisons,
  zombies and Mao Zedong, but the latest is Eric Wang’s “Marton,” in
  Kaohsiung, whose theme is the toilet. All seats are what you would
  think, with food served on a glass tabletop resting on a bathtub, and
  some of the delicacies are presented in miniature toilet bowls (among
  them, curry hot pot, and disturbingly, chocolate ice cream). [Agence
  France-Presse, 5-23-05]
• Recent scholarly findings (reduced
  to their essence in a May Wall Street Journal column): It’s much easier
  to identify someone if he is physically near you than if he is up to
  450 feet away (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February). People who
  choose their careers carefully, rather than on a whim, experience
  greater job satisfaction (Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 26,
  no.3). College students tend to drink more alcoholic beverages than
  they realize (Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, April).
  If patients voluntarily tell a doctor about a bad side effect of a
  medicine, they are more likely to be switched to a safer one than if
  they don’t (Archives of Internal Medicine, January). [Wall Street
  Journal, 5-27-05]

Here’s a few, I hope they give you a good laugh.

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