How to hack those programmable road signs

Ever wanted to put your own message on one of those portable road signs along the highway? Well now you can with just a little tampering and a whole lot of illegal!

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Kalbuka defends her turf

Cat fight!

Golf clubs go sonic boom

Even John Daly, with his abundant golf fashion sense, can swing a club fast enough to pop eardrums

Those new golf clubs you bought? The ones that produce a “sonic boom” when they hit the golf ball? They can permanently damage your hearing!

After a golfer showed up in the hearing clinic at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the U.K., suffering from tinnitus and reduced hearing in one ear, doctors reported to him that his test results indicated that he had suffered from exposure to loud noises. What were those loud noises?

“Sonic booms,” several golfers called the sounds made by the new thin-faced titanium drivers that have been catching on in the golf world.

The University Hospital doctors went ahead and tested several clubs from different manufacturers, such as King Cobra, Callaway, Nike, and Mizuno. They recruited a professional golfer to hit shots with six different thin-faced titanium golf clubs and, indeed, the sounds made were loud enough to cause permanent hearing damage.

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Chimpanzee rides a Segway

What can I say? Japanese TV rocks!

In case you don’t remember, here’s President Bush falling off his Segway:

One of my favorite videos of 2008: Ninja cat

In case you haven’t seen this one:

Dog-Powered Vehicles Force Man's Best Friend Into Manual Labor

Your dog is lazy and shiftless, not paying his way through life at all. It’s time to make your dog work for his food by attaching him to a scooter, bike or skateboard.

Yes, now you can get your lazy ass carted around by your poor dog, attaching him and up to three other dogs to one of these crazy contraptions. The big selling point, apparently, is that by placing the dog behind the steering apparatus, you’re able to have much more control over where you’re headed. Because if the dog was placed in front of the steering apparatus, you’d always just head right to the butcher shop or milk bone factory.

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