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Well, with a crash course in circuitry, you can keep from hearing about Sheen, Trump, or just about any Media Harlot with Enough Already -- a gadget designed by Matt Richardson for tinker mag Make.
"I don't know about you, but I'm a little sick of hearing about the same people on TV over and over again," Richardson writes. "I came up with this Arduino-based solution to mute my TV so that I don't have to hear about Donald Trump's feud with whomever or Charlie Sheen's most recent rant."
© Missoulian.comMaths genius: Dave Madsen with Beau the canine calculator, who can add, subtract and work out the square roots of numbers
Owner David Madsen says if he tells Beau there are six dogs at the park and three dogs leave, and then asks him how many are left, the dog replies: "Woof, woof, woof."
Beau has achieved a degree of celebrity for his counting skills, becoming a star on visits to shops, restaurants and cabins in the Flathead Lake resort in Montana where the Madsen family spends summers.
"He counts, he adds and subtracts, he can do some division and has memorized square roots," Madsen said.
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© Josef Enzinger/dapdA cow named Yvonne has eluded capture since escaping a German farm in May. She's been spotted roaming a forest, but searchers haven't been able to get close to her. Now an animal psychic has been called in.
Curious visitors and search parties have been romping through the woods around Zangberg, looking for signs of the cow. Yvonne has been at large since she breached an electric fence on her farm nearly three months ago, on May 24. Since then, she's adopted a lifestyle that might be called Sherwoodian: sticking to forests, eluding police, and bringing acclaim and tourist dollars to her quaint village.
Satirical gold from the Onion. The Maxine Waters character is off the charts.
Fox News' Megyn Kelly returns from maternity leave with a more liberal perspective on mandated benefits and entitlement programs.
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In the wake of the announcement that 81 US Congressmen are leaving on an AIPAC-sponsored junket to Israel, the new SuperCongress announced today that the entire legislative branch of the US government will be moved to Tel Aviv. The reason, according to informed sources, is to save on travel junket expenses to reduce the national deficit.
Relocating Congress to Israel is expected to significantly lower the cost of AIPAC-sponsored junkets: Airfare costs will be eliminated, hotel costs reduced, and "preferred customer" cocaine and prostitution discounts taken advantage of. The move should bring a noticeable reduction in the hemorrhage of US taxpayer dollars to the Zionist state.
The purpose of the move, according to informed sources, is to lower the deficit, not throw another bone to AIPAC. "Who do you think is paying for these travel junkets to Israel? That's right, the US taxpayer!" said a SuperCongress spokesperson on conditions of anonymity. "The Israelis force Congress to cough up billions of US taxpayer dollars in aid to Israel. Then Israel recycles those dollars by buying even more congressmen. It's a vicious circle. We can't stop it, so we might as well make the best of it, and just move the hell over there and be done with it."
© ReutersT-shirts are a common souvenir for fans at rock festivals
The so-called Trojan T-shirts bore a design of a skull and right-wing flags and the words "hardcore rebels".
But, once washed, the design dissolves to reveal a message telling people to break with extremism.
Some 250 T-shirts were donated to organisers, who handed them out at the nationalist rock festival in Gera.
The stunt was organised by a left-wing group called Exit, which seeks to reduce the influence of the right-wing in Germany.
© AFPAn advertising billboard in Rehon, France in April 2011. A French organic farmer has forked out 3,000 euros for a series of billboard advertisements denouncing the evils of advertising to go up this week in the southwestern town of Agen.
Twenty-five of the giant ads went up this week across the southwestern town of Agen showing a human brain stuffed with advertising images and carrying the slogan "Advertising is manipulating you - React!"
Fifty-six-year-old farmer Pierre Kung explained that he was implementing the martial arts technique of "using the strength of the adversary to floor him."
