November 10th, 2008
Providence took another blow today with the release of the SNIF tag - an unfathomably pointless $300 collar-mounted doohickey which allows dog owners with absolutely nothing else to do the opportunity to go online and blow 5 disinterested minutes checking such things as their pooch’s daily activity level and the names of the owners of [...]
Filed under: Dog Science, Dog/Cat Relations, Harebrained Humans, Lassie Grave Spinning by Bob
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September 11th, 2008
There sure are a lot of robots taking the form of dogs these days. Perhaps it’s because robots represent an innate desire in humans to remake themselves in their ideal form, and that ideal form happens to be canine shaped.
Or maybe it’s just because balancing on four legs requires fewer equations than balancing on two. [...]
Filed under: Dog Science, Dog/Cat Relations, Harebrained Humans, Lazy Humans by Bob
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September 10th, 2008
One thing which really gets under my whiskers is the tendency for humans to expend large amounts of effort conducting elaborate “studies” into animal behavior, without it ever occurring to them that all they have to do is ask us what they want to know.
Take this latest study into the relationship between dogs and cats, [...]
Filed under: Deluded Humans, Dog Science, Dog/Cat Relations, Lazy Humans by Bob
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