Bill Would Let Dogs Sit With Diners (AP)

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Ronald McDonald imposter stuns diners

Ronald McDonald imposter stuns diners 07/09/2004 08:24 PM

Iraqi blast kills Baquba diners

Iraqi blast kills Baquba diners 04/16/2005 10:20 AM
Seven people, including two police officers, are killed in an explosion at a restaurant in the Iraqi city of Baquba.

Ronald McDonald Imposter Stuns Diners
(AP)

Ronald McDonald Imposter Stuns Diners
(AP) 07/09/2004 07:58 PM
AP - Diners at a McDonald's in southern Norway were stunned when a man dressed as the U.S. fast food chain's mascot Ronald McDonald launched into a diatribe criticizing its policies and food, the outlet's owner said Friday.

Scientists Teach Baffled Diners
Chopstick Tricks (Reuters)

Scientists Teach Baffled Diners
Chopstick Tricks (Reuters) 01/22/2004 08:42 AM
Reuters - Britons' enthusiasm for chow mein and Peking duck is often dampened when poor chopstick skills leave more food on their shirts than in their mouths.

US Senate kills move to attach energy
bill to Internet tax bill

US Senate kills move to attach energy
bill to Internet tax bill 04/29/2004 02:46 PM
Platts Apr 29 2004 6:07PM GMT

The Dogs

The Dogs 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
So while we were in Tokyo, Mena heard about a place called Inutama, Nekotama, Tamaitachi. It sounded bizarre. The idea...

"No dogs please"

"No dogs please" 05/03/2004 04:48 PM
I'm such a lover of rummy prose. It's why I chortle at Wodehouse--that and his ridiculously involved plot-lines. It's why I press a copy of Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" into the hands of passersby. Douglas Adams's "It hung in the air in exactly the way that bricks don't" is a constant grammatical companion. And, of course, there's the inimitable Winston Churchill's "This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put."

So, given half a chance, I'd drone on and on quoting just about every other page in Lynne Truss's witty yet precise Eats, Shoots & Leaves".

Here, though, are a couple of bits of humorous eloquence--the first by Ms. Truss, the second by Thurber--I just couldn't pass by without mentioning out loud.

p. 81.

Readers grow so accustomed to the dwindling incidence of commas in public places that when signs to up saying "No dogs please", only one person in a thousand actually bothers to point out that actually, as a statement, "no dogs please" is an indefensible generalisation, since many dogs do please, as a matter of fact; they rather make a point of it.

p. 70.

Thurber was once asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest." 04/16/2004 08:49 AM

Medicine Goes to the Dogs

Medicine Goes to the Dogs 11/14/2003 05:52 AM
Technology Review Nov 14 2003 4:47AM ET

Dogs online

Dogs online 05/05/2004 05:40 AM

Emily @ Smart Mobs

Dog Blog

Red Ferret's dog blog. (Thanks Anil). Peter Steiner's original "dog on the Internet" cartoon can be viewed in the Cartoonbank of the New Yorker.

My puppies are more into moblogging, and of course Bo and Pookie have recently joined Dogster.

Cats and dogs...

Cats and dogs... 02/10/2004 02:51 AM

I was playing with Bo all afternoon, thinking about what her blog would look like and was reminded of this funny comparison between cats and dogs. Thanks to Google, it was easy to find.

Who Let These Dogs Out? The Warden

Who Let These Dogs Out? The Warden 06/09/2004 10:55 AM
Many in this vast and daunting city could use a wet-nosed snuggle now and then, if only for a weekend, if only for a day.

Americans and Their Dogs

Americans and Their Dogs 04/14/2005 04:02 AM
Americans are more attached to their dogs than ever. Dogs have their own fashions, bedding, and health products. The same people who sell you collectibles, jewelry, lingerie, and household items, also want to sell dog products. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

Isle of Dogs

Isle of Dogs 06/17/2005 04:27 PM

« The lovely beach on Rajasaari, a.k.a. dog island. »

We skipped the Samba parade today and took Otava up to Rajasaari again instead. I've rarely seen a dog so happy as he is to run around like a crazed puppy and swim around in the water. I'm continually impressed by the dog parks in Helsinki and Rajasaari seems like one of the best kept secrets in town since there are never many dogs around when we visit. It's a rocky knob of an island with lots of trees, water and sand for dogs to play in freely off the leash. It's doggie nirvana. It sits just off the shore from the Prime Minister's home in Meilahti which likely prevents any development.

Otava certainly likes to swim, but we're going to have to work on his floating ball retrieval skills as he wades in like a water buffalo, drinks around it, sniffs and then wanders off while drinking more water in search of something more interesting. Perhaps we need to stuff some sausage into the floating kong ball to pique his curiosity. :)

I left work early on Friday in order to try some mämmijäätelö at the Häme regional fair in Senate Square. Many of the Finnish regions seem to offer these during the summertime and it's fun to try regional oddities. I am still pouting that we arrived too late for the mämmi ice cream and I'm thinking that I'll just have to make some myself. Otava got to try some of the boar pyttipannu since he caught a whiff of it while we were snaking our way around the stalls in search of ice cream and decided that he was going to park it in front of the pyttipannu stand until he was served. Oh, the ladies loved him and gave him a wee taste which sealed our fate of having to buy some and lure him away with it. At least he wasn't behaving like he does at the pet store where he walks along the treat aisle and just shoves his face into the bin of stuff he likes the most. :)

One disappointment was being with a friend who wanted to take some pictures of some cute ceramic pots in the Häme market. I was busy holding Otava, who was interested in heading towards the food section, and couldn't quite believe that the vendor started giving her an incredibly hard time about 'using the pictures against her' or some really wacky justification for being viciously rude instead of saying 'please, no pictures.' It didn't occur to me until we were walking home that it was very likely because the friend isn't white and I thought about going back without Otava to see if I would get the same treatment if I tried to take pictures of her cute, but unoriginal, pottery though I wasn't sure how I'd respond if the vendor were to smile and offer to show me other items while I was taking a few pictures. It's always the little things that get under your skin and fester.

Rooming With the Big Dogs

Rooming With the Big Dogs 05/24/2004 11:27 PM
It takes creativity to integrate a giant-breed dog into one's life in New York City.

Controversy Dogs Google

Controversy Dogs Google 03/24/2005 11:39 PM
ISEDB Mar 25 2005 3:53AM GMT

Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Or something.

Avast, ye scurvy dogs! Or something. 07/16/2004 11:41 AM
naval-history.net :: yet another fine example of how the web can help one man or woman with a true passion for a subject go from a hobbist to a published expert. Be sure to read the dedication to his dad at the top of the page.

MPs vote to ban hunting with dogs

MPs vote to ban hunting with dogs 09/15/2004 01:53 PM
MPs vote to ban hunting with dogs by a majority of nearly 200 at the Bill's second reading.

Hey Dogs: Don't Mess With Texas! (AP)

Hey Dogs: Don't Mess With Texas! (AP) 04/16/2004 11:31 AM
AP - Dog owners in the state capital are under federal orders to stay off the grass downtown.

Dogs Now Used in Battle Against Mold
(AP)

Dogs Now Used in Battle Against Mold
(AP) 06/01/2004 05:21 PM
AP - In the battle to find unhealthy mold in houses, a low-tech option is gaining favor among some homeowners: dogs with sensitive sniffers trained for hunting down the illness-causing spores.

video of talking dogs

video of talking dogs 06/30/2004 05:51 PM
this is why the good lord gave us weblogs

Should hunting with dogs be banned?

Should hunting with dogs be banned? 09/14/2004 06:44 PM
MPs are to consider the Hunting Bill for England and Wales when it returns to the Commons on Wednesday. Should hunting with dogs be banned?

Dogs in funny hats

Dogs in funny hats 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
Just Nuisance, Able Seaman. The only canine enlisted in the Royal Navy, Just Nuisance served from 1939 to 1944 in Simon's Town, South Africa (on his papers his occupation was listed as 'Bone Crusher' and his religion 'Canine Divinity League [Anti-Vivisection]'). Providing a great source of morale to sailors stationed there he would escort them on train trips and make sure they made it back to base after a night on the town. Of course being a sailor himself he was privy to a few brushes with the law as well by traveling on the railways without a pass (punishment: Confined to the banks of Froggy Pond, Lily Pool, with all lamp posts removed) or sleeping on an Officer's bed (punishment: Deprived of bones for seven days.). Married, and survived by five children, on his death he was afforded a funeral with full military colours. You can read his biography (which spawned a television series), or merely pay respects at his stat ue next time you're in Simon's Town.

Cancer-sniffing dogs

Cancer-sniffing dogs 09/24/2004 05:36 AM
David Pescovitz: Scientists report that dogs can smell disease in the urine of bladder cancer patients. In the study, published in this week's Br itish Medical Journal, the canines successfully identified a cancer patient's urine sample placed among six control samples 41 percent of the time, far better than the 14 percent expected by chance. From an Associated Press article on the research:

"Perhaps the most intriguing finding, though, was in a comparison patient whose urine was used during the training phase. All the dogs unequivocally identified that urine as a cancer case, even though screening tests before the experiment had shown no cancer. Doctors conducted more detailed tests on the patient and found a life-threatening tumor in the right kidney."

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We may owe our speech and our existence
to dogs

We may owe our speech and our existence
to dogs 01/16/2004 11:31 AM

In my pursuit to understand Bo better, I'm reading a book that Barak gave me called How to Speak Dog. It's really a great book about how to to communicate with your dog. Stanley Coren makes an interesting assertion about our co-evolution with dogs.

Stanley Coren

It is well established that the primitive humans who survived to become our forefathers formed an early relationship with dogs. Compare our success to that of the Neanderthals, who never got along with dogs, and who ultimately died out. Some evolutionary theorists have suggested that the survival of our ancestors had to do with the fact that our cooperative partnership with dogs made us more efficient hunters than Neanderthals². With the dog's more acute sensory systems, finding game was easier.
[...]
Here is where the serious speculation begins. These theorists suggest that since these early humans now had dogs to do the tracking, they no longer needed the facial structures that would allow them to detect faint scents. This, then, allowed our early ancestors to evolve more flexible facial features, which were capable of shaping more complex sounds. In other words, our prehistoric association with dogs, who would do the smelling for us, gave us the ability to create speech.
[...]
2. J.M. Allman, Evolving Brains. New York: Freeman, 1999.

Thanks Bo!

Dancing goes to the dogs (Reuters)

Dancing goes to the dogs (Reuters) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters - It has long been said that a dog is a man's best friend, but a Dutch dog trainer is taking the relationship one step further -- offering "doggy dancing" lessons to people wanting a canine dancing partner.

Army Looks at Robotic Dogs

Army Looks at Robotic Dogs 01/08/2004 08:49 PM
Slashdot Jan 8 2004 10:32AM ET

'Vicious' dogs slip through law net

'Vicious' dogs slip through law net 12/04/2003 09:37 PM
stuff.co.nz Dec 4 2003 8:06PM ET

Pool in Kansas Goes to the Dogs (AP)

Pool in Kansas Goes to the Dogs (AP) 09/07/2004 01:57 PM
AP - Ted Nelson, aquatics director of the Hutchinson Recreation Commission, said the Salt City Splash pool will be specially prepared for an upcoming event.

Music to Soothe Dogs With (Reuters)

Music to Soothe Dogs With (Reuters) 09/08/2004 10:31 AM
Reuters - Help is at hand for pet owners and their neighbors troubled by barking dogs -- soothing recordings of "new age"-style music blended with sounds of nature.

RFID everywhere--dogs, watches, kids

RFID everywhere--dogs, watches, kids 07/23/2004 04:29 PM
ZDNet Jul 23 2004 7:34PM GMT

Stray dogs destroyed every hour

Stray dogs destroyed every hour 07/19/2004 10:13 PM
An animal welfare charity says that one stray dog is being put down every hour in the UK.

Belgian on trial for sex with dogs
(Reuters)

Belgian on trial for sex with dogs
(Reuters) 03/19/2005 02:20 AM
Reuters - A Belgian man on trial for having sex with dogs claims he did it out of compassion for man's best friend, a Belgian paper says.

Owners Dance With Dogs at Competition
(AP)

Owners Dance With Dogs at Competition
(AP) 04/18/2004 03:05 PM
AP - The music swells and Annie Schlaff and her yellow Lab Danny slip into a lively cha-cha-cha. Across the room, straight-faced trainers reveal the finer points of dancing with dogs to about 50 attentive owners here for the second annual World Canine Freestyle Organization.

When it gets to dogs, this social
networking thing has gone to far

When it gets to dogs, this social
networking thing has gone to far 09/03/2004 04:57 AM
Today I received an long 'zine email from David Weinberger, who reminded me that he had set up a neighborhood on the fashionable new geographically-based academia-powered social networking site, i-Neighbors, so I went and checked out North Berkeley, the neighborhood that I, slave to blog-fashion and still hoping that somewhere, somehow, someday, I will find out what these social networking sites are good for, had created after reading David's initial post. To my great surprise I was no longer the only member of the i-hood, quite a few other people had moved in. As I was checking out their pages, I saw that one of them had a link with his pet's name. I clicked and was taken to ... Dogster. Apparently this is old news to many, but it was the first I had heard of it, and its companion site, Catster. On one hand this makes sense. There may even be a business model buried in there somewhere -- a lot of pet owners are fanatical about their pets, as anyone who has recently followed San Francisco politics and the battles between the dog owners vs. the Natural Areas Program can attest. And they spend a lot of money -- Americans spent 32.4 billion dollars on their pets last year, and upscale pet businesses are doing well. Or there may not be a business here -- remember the sock puppet? Whatever the business rationale, this is nuts. Social networking for pets? Give me a break. It is a symptom, not a cause, but what does it say about what our priorities are in this country? Nothing that sits well in my stomach....

Experts: Dogs Likely Originated in Asia
(AP)

Experts: Dogs Likely Originated in Asia
(AP) 02/13/2004 07:57 PM
AP - From Yorkshire terriers the size of a teacup to Irish wolfhounds near the size of a small pony, all dogs originated from a single species, probably an East Asian wolf seeking the warmth of the human hearth and an easy meal.

Hawaii May Let Dogs Dine With People
(AP)

Hawaii May Let Dogs Dine With People
(AP) 02/17/2004 08:04 AM
AP - Cpl. Rita Levergood and her husband disagree whether four-legged members of their family should be able to join them out to dinner. The state, however, is clear: It's against the law.

"Tests show dogs are almost human"

"Tests show dogs are almost human" 02/15/2004 06:20 PM

The Australians once again demonstrate superb taste in the photo illustrating this story about dogs.

Gone to the Dogs: a new British comedy
film

Gone to the Dogs: a new British comedy
film 04/01/2005 03:52 AM
What breed of dog are you? .. que tipo de perro sera .. Gone to the Dogs

gone2thedogs.com
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