How well do you know modern medications? In the latest mental_floss quiz, try to match the medicine with a side effect from its warning label. You don’t have to take these medications to know the answers -most h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/popular-drugs-ominous-labels/Do you know what your eyes are doing while you are reading? A group of researchers has determined that often, our left eye is not looking at the same printed letter as the right eye! The team's results demonstrate...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/how-the-eyes-read/The Consumerist reports on the Continental Finance MasterCard. The fees include: Account setup fee: $99 Program participation fee: $89 Annual fee: $49 Account maintenance fee: $120 (charged @ $10/month) Purcha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/worlds-worst-credit-card/Cristóbal Vila produced a stunning animation on one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous buildings. Fallingwater {wiki} was designed in 1935 and built in Pennsylvania. This CGI movie shows the building process...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/fallingwater-the-movie/Here's our weekly collaboration with Cellar Image of the Day: an entry from English Russia where leaking water created a strange undulation in the ceiling of an apartment downstairs!Link | Be sure to check out more fun a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/undulating-ceiling-caused-by-a-leak-in-the-apartment-above/Would you ever believe it, Mozart once wrote a party song titled ... Lick Me in the Ass!Mozart's widow, Constanze Mozart, sent the manuscripts of the canons to publishers Breitkopf & Härtel in 1799, saying t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/mozarts-secret-composition-lick-me-in-the-ass-song/Fans of Scott Meyer's Basic Instructions comics already know this: his web comic strips are funny (in a sly sarcastic way, but that's what makes it special). Scott's comics center on "basic instructions" on how...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/basic-instructions-comics-by-scott-meyer/The folks at NPR wondered if $55 Bling H2O really tasted better than other bottled waters. They conducted a taste test featuring Bling H2O, normally-priced bottled water, and Manhattan tap water, and posted a video repor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/water-taste-test/Paleo-Future has a series of French prints from 1910 depicting what life will be like in the year 2000. Some are precient, although the art is quaintly Victorian. Others, such as this woman being made up in her robotic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/1910-prints-of-the-future/Similicio.us is an application that finds websites that appeal to similar tastes, using delicio.us bookmarks. This is an experiment to see whether I can quickly find relevant web sites based on people's tags/bookma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/similicious/From China Daily: A yellow three-legged duckling at a duck farm in Tancheng County, East China's Shandong Province, born on September 4, 2007, is eatingwell and quacking all day long. A rare mutation has left the mal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/duck-tripod/From The Manchester Evening News: A violent thug attacking a shopkeeper never expected to come face-to-face with a superhero. But as Gerard Smith went `berserk' in a Manchester newsagents, passer-by Kevin Godin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/spiderman-to-the-rescue/The site for the Nintendo DS game SimCity DS includes a surprisingly fun flash game. The object is to design a route for the mayor to take through the city, using pieces that drop Tetris-style. Go ahead, click...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/sim-citytetris-mash-up-surprisingly-fun/Martin Klimas hails from Germany and takes fantastic "still life" photos. He drops clay figurines from the same height in complete darkness with the camera lens open. When the figurine hits the ground, the sound of t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/still-life-by-martin-klimas/Enjoy some mindless fun with Mr Men Pinball. Link - via haha.nu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/mr-men-pinball/Got a big tech idea? You can win up to $5 million to fund your project, thanks to the Knight News Challenge if your idea uses open source digital technology to give people in your community access to news or information....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/knight-news-challenge-5-million-for-your-tech-ideas/The following is reprinted from Bathroom Readers' Institute's 17th edition Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader book. Haru Urara (Image: Educainc) Here’s the story of a poke...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/worlds-losingest-horse/Social Science++ Blog has a very neat analysis of the names of various countries and how democratic they are:Sometimes it seems bad countries come with long names. North Korea is "People's Democratic Republic of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/names-of-nations-and-their-true-democratic-nature/Food makers in Japan came up with a new product that will surely create a buzz in the marketplace: the jibachi senbei, or the digger wasp rice cracker.Wasp hunters from the village, who are mostly in their 80's, catch th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/wasp-cookie/We saw the Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper steampunk (scrap metal?) sculpture before. If you like that, here is the Yoda sculpture. Check out this website for more: http://www.yumimodal.com/starwars.htm - via Super Punch...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/yoda-scrap-metal-sculpture/We had a lot of posts on the subject of tattoos, like the Anatomy Tattoos, the Science Tattoos, the Nerd Tattoos, and even the Star Wars Tattoos. Now, Yuppie Punk Blog has an article featuring the inked fans of TV sitcom...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/tv-tattoos/Like riding your bike everywhere but wish that it had more cargo space? Here's a DIY guide at Instructables on how to make your very own shopping cart bicycle!Link - via Say No to Crack...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/shopping-cart-bicycle/The iPod Gramophone is a wooden case for your iPod that also has a built-in speaker handmade from wood.And to show you they mean business, this little contraption also has a built-in pencil sharpener!Link [in Korean] - v...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/ipod-wooden-gramophone-case/I hope that this sign warning subway riders not to defecate on the train is a clever photoshop job, lest I fear that the world is really beyond all hope! Found at One Large Prawn....
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/09/10/strange-subway-sign/
