Today Google released its Google Nose in Beta. It’s a new search tool that allows users to search for smells. We don’t really understand it — computers are intense these days — but it seems to work. For example, we searched for “wet dog,” clicked the “smell” button, and were instructed to bring our nose …
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Give a cat a boundary, and she’ll rush to fill it. If there are several cats, they’ll rush to fill it and even fight over it. That’s what happened when we bought a simple rug. Now these cats can’t get enough of it. It was a simple throw rug, purchased at the local farmers’ market, …
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Everything about how we relate to cats has changed in the last generation or two. Americans increasingly name cats the same names as humans; mine are named Mina and Seigfried, though we mostly call the latter one Ziggy. We also live with our cats much more closely than we once did — our own cats …
Cats are the original supermodels. Think about it. There is no other creature who sits around posing and preening like doing so is, well, her job. As far as she is concerned, her only task is to make your life better by beautifying it with her presence. Like human supermodels, the cat spends about 75 …
Cats are so cool. No matter what they do, they’re totally confident and brimming with awesome. They’re WAY cooler than me. Even when they fall off the arm of the sofa, they emerge completely collected and looking fantastic. I wish I could say the same thing for me when I’ve just tripped walking up the …
