I don’t know what it is about watching this video of Simon the dog popping balloons. It’s kind of like popping bubble wrap — you don’t know why you do it but something about it’s satisfying.
Simon, a Jack Russel terrier, manages to pop 100 balloons in just over a minute. The balloons are attached to a giant piece of cardboard and using nothing but his teeth, Simon manages to get every last one of them.
I wouldn’t recommend trying to train your dog to do this however — there’s no telling where the balloon pieces will end up when they …read more

They like to leave you with a little link love to tide you over.
This blog could use some serious blogroll revision. I need to do some adds, remixes, and sadly some cuts (but mostly adds). Thus I’ll be using my time at this blog this weekend for boring housekeeping tasks and am going MIA here in about five minutes. Not to worry; you’re probably all out enjoying the weekend sunshine anyhow and I’ll be back by Tuesday at the latest.
I’ll leave you with some best of the best from my daily blog reads this week. If you like what you …read more