• Your latest Hollywood-colluding-with-government copyright outrage.
• Amazing photos from an abandoned New York leper colony.
• British court rules that composing a photo the way someone else has could be a violation of copyright.
• Here is a dog jumping on a trampoline.
• Red State founder and CNN commenter tells radio audience that watching someone he disagrees with politically writhe in pain until the guy requires hospitalization is “made of awesome.”
• Despite promises from politicians, NYC continues with its ridiculous pot arrests.
• “Why more than a dozen teenage girls are exhibiting Tourette’s-like symptoms.”
• Headline of the day.
• Dahlia Lithwich on how Illinois awful recording cops law might affect this year’s G8 summit in Chicago.
• Good post on leash law Tasering: “‘Protect and Serve’ does not mean “you have to win every argument ever.’”

• Here are 300+ photos of dogs looking out of windows.
• Headline of the day. 
• Heroes of the Concordia.
• One in 419 Americans must now register as a sex offender.
• Federal judge says you can be forced do de-encrypt your laptop.
• I may have had a minor heart attack while watching this video. It ends well, though.
• Jonathan Coulton on Megaupload.
• “Those who sat through the film in its entirety were given a . . . a black beanie hat and . . . a blood-splattered tampon in a tube.
• The 2012 horse race.

This is my parents’ old and graying pooch Max, after two days of Daisy wearing him out.

He’s tired.

Daisy’s boyfriend Leo came over this evening. Cuteness ensued.

Man photographs his dog with its head out the window at increasing speeds.

Awesomeness ensues.

Also: Photos of Basset Hounds running.

It’s been awhile . . .

I wasn’t at the best angle to fully capture the uplifted leg. But you get the idea.

Good dog.

Lexy is often employed for various photographic experiments, testing film, lenses, etc.  This was a bounce flash test.  When I was done he made me play with him for 45 minutes.  Huskies seem to be an infinite bundle of energy.

I printed and framed 16x20s of these and have them hanging on the walls.

Thankfully, he’s starting to add a bit more flesh over his bones.

[Posted by Dave Krueger]

Like Radley, I have dogs except mine are Siberian Huskies.  The  gray one is named Natasha (Tasha) and the white one is named Aleksei (Lexy).  Tasha is 12 years old and Lexy is 2.

Lexy and Tasha then (2009)

Lexy and Tasha now (2011)

My hobby is black and white film photography so the majority of photos I take are black and white and are printed in a traditional darkroom.

[Posted by Dave Krueger]

I picked up the new Canon EOS Rebel T3i last week. Wow, is it a beautiful camera. So far I’ve noticed the biggest difference while shooting at concerts, where the expanded ISO (it goes up to 6400, expandable to 12,800) gives you more room to zoom without losing shutter speed. I’ll post a few shots from recent shows later this week. For now, here are some photos from the dog park.

It hit 60 degrees today. That, of course, is dog park weather.

Bought a new couch this week. I wasn’t happy with the one I had, and I saw one I liked on sale. So I now have two, at least until I can sell the old one. Daisy has been a bit overwhelmed by the doubling of her napping space. So she’s been alternating between couches.

Other dog news this week: She caught a squirrel during one of our walks. For her, this was a glorious, long-sought triumph. For me, it was a mess. She maimed the thing, but didn’t really know what to do with it once she had it. Which means I had to euthanize it. This was traumatic, because it was really difficult to find a tiny squirrel vein in which to put the syringe. I’m kidding. I used a log. And it was gross. Try not to think of her savage beastliness while you look at the cute pictures.

Daisy blew my mind this week. I guess she ate something bad on our walk Tuesday morning, because she was throwing up all morning. I promptly cleaned it up the first two times, but the third time, I was finishing up a blog post, so I didn’t get to it for a few minutes. She tried to get my attention, wearing that look of doggie shame. I blew her off to finish typing. Next came the amazing part: She walked to the back of my apartment, picked up a rag in her mouth, took it to her mess, covered the mess with the rag, then started patting it with her paw.

Now, she actually made the mess worse by patting it into the carpet. But still. I mean, wow.

Here’s a little trick I’ve taught my last three dogs.

So as I mentioned in a previous SEDB post, Daisy is in love. His name is Leo, and he’s a very handsome Staffie mix, also about a year-and-a-half old. Daisy is still a bit skittish around other dogs. But when she sees Leo, it’s kissing, pawing, impossibly cute doggie love. His owner walks him on a pretty regular schedule, which Daisy has now learned. So at about the same time each morning and evening, Daisy goes to the window and waits to get a glimpse of Leo. As soon as she spots him, she goes nuts, circling and pawing at me and panting until I finally take her out to see him.

Sigh. They grow up so fast.

I caught yesterday’s interlude with my camera.

It's about that time.

Same time every evening.

She just caught his scent.

Leo! That's him, to the right of the nose smudges she's made on the window.

Must get closer.

I have sturdy screens. Or she'd probably jump.

Take me to him.

The song is okay. The dogs are awesome.

Saturday was Dog Day, a little canine fest at Nashville’s Centennial Park. Daisy and I were there. Here are some photos. And yes, that dog is carrying his own poop bag. Awesome.

I’ve been waiting a few months for the chance to snap this photo.

• Scientists bring a Steven Wright joke to life.
• Redesigning Addis Ababa.
• Somehow I missed that yesterday was National Dog Day. Here’s a gallery of photos.
• Montgomery, Alabama to poor people: We’re going to demolish your house, steal your property, and give the land to rich developers. Oh, and we’re going to bill you for the demolition costs. This isn’t even eminent domain. It’s much eviler.
• Shorter Eric Holder: It might be nice to do something about prison rape, but it’s just too darned expensive. I can see his point. Better that we pay wealthy people to get SUV’s with better gas mileage.
• Man arrested, falsely charged after filming police making an arrest, calling them “Nazis.” Yeah, he’s an asshole. Barring an actual crime, being an asshole shouldn’t get you arrested.

Because why not?