pet connection

What could be better than a picture of a dog (other than the real thing, of course)? Lots and lots of great pictures of dogs. Surf on over to the Canon digital photography forums if you want to see some candid camera work of dogs in all their infinite variety–216 pages worth. One of my faves is this Greyhound, and if you can tolerate dogs in costume, this Basset Hound in full Scottish regalia (toward the bottom of the page) is pretty irresistible. If not, squinch your eyes closed until you get to the photo just beneath it.

It takes imagination to assign a typeface to a dog breed, and that’s what John Farrier has done over on Neatorama. A Dalmatian as Courier Regular? A sculpted Poodle as Kunstler script medium? Me, I would have made the white Bull Terrier Bodoni bold instead of Bodoni book. What typeface is your breed? Cavaliers are Garamond. I hear Flat Coats are Comic Sans. I think probably a lot of breeds fall under that one.  (h/t to Guy Kawasaki on Twitter)

In the New York Times’ Science section, Nicholas Wade reports that some researchers now believe that dogs were domesticated in the Middle East rather than East Asia, as was previously theorized. After analyzing a large collection of wolf and dog genomes from around the world, a team led by Bridgett M. vonHoldt and Robert K. Wayne found that the Middle East was where wolf and dog genomes were most similar, he writes. The findings include interesting insights into dog types, in particular, herding breeds, sighthounds and scenthounds, as well as canine affability and ability to read human body language. As with any scientific finding, there’s debate about the researchers’ conclusions. Read the rest here.

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