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Dog-Friendly Dog Training
The technique here is to go outside and sit on a park bench. Whenever you see another dog you say “oh, look, here comes a cookie dog.” And as soon as your dog sees the other, you give him a treat. Even if your dog is tense and growling and one might say […]

Oakland: Taste of fire sparks feeding frenzy
The experience produced a notable rush. Having eaten fire, I was surprised to find I was greedy for it. All of us were as we raced to dip our fire sticks in the instructor’s martini shaker of Coleman camping fuel, and then crowded around the little votive candle that […]

You can try to learn German online from Deutsche Welle.
You can also do some self-study in German, French, Spanish, and Italian (plus others, to a lesser degree) with the help fo the BBC.
Nice.

[Since I’m getting Google hits, here’s the 37% lamer 2006 Oscar summary.]
The best musical performance (by far!) was Jorge Drexler accepting his award by singing his own Best Song, completely showing up the version Antonio Banderas and Carlos Santana put forth. Seriously: The music sucked. Someone tell Adam Duritz it was time to lose the […]

Ligers are real.
And really fuckin big!

(This post mostly belongs on FtN which may make a comeback soon.)
I had a poker night at my house last night for the first time in what feels like forever, but is actually probably a month. We ended up shorthanded with only four of us at the table, but that actually ended up being rather […]

Trackers Kill Tiger in Ventura County
The decision by government trackers to use high-powered rifles instead of tranquilizer darts to bring down the elusive cat outraged animal rights activists. But state officials said they had no alternative but to shoot to kill, because the animal could have attacked or bolted onto a highway or into a […]

In case a home invasion/robbery isn’t exciting enough for the soccer moms…
Last night we were disturbed by (at least) a pair of police helecopters (or maybe they were just news choppers, don’t really know) hovering over our whitebread ‘hood like we we suddenly in Compton or something. While it was fun for me to watch […]