Google's top dog allows dogs at work CA "Google's [creator,] Sergey Brin, shares some of the secrets to his search engine's success. The Moscow native talks about his interest in trapeze, new hybrid electric car and management philosophy [and has dogs at work as part of an unconventional, creative environment.]" [San Francisco Examiner]

Q: Your vision for Google five years from now?  
A: I want to really apply technology to a larger purpose -- to world hunger, transportation, communication, things like that." [San Francisco Examiner]

He may already have achieved his goal in some ways: people all over the world use Google as an essential component of their online research tool box.

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Deluxe pet resorts pamper dogs and cats FL Forget the word kennel and its negative associations. Today's dogs and cats are treated like kings and queens at upscale pet resorts across the country. Breakfast in bed for dogs and cats? yes, of course. Does your dog or cat want to watch TV in the pickup van? In a Miami resort, it can choose from "Lady and the Tramp, 101 Dalmatians and shows from Animal Planet. Dogs can relax in suites with cable television, raised beds, toys and night lights and no crates." The deluxe doggie taste is a response to the growing number of people who treat their pets as family members.  With all that attention, it's no wonder "dogs don't want to go home. I had one yesterday. She had to drag the dog out the front door to go home.''.. [Fort Wayne]

Dog contest  loser ticked off: sour grapes please... MA If the dog contest by the Museum of Fine Arts played by its own rules, a little two pound, tiara wearing chihuahua named Sula would have won; at least that's the way her 'auntie' Elizabeth Novak, saw it. What she didn't count on was immediate dislike by the contest's only judge.  Suddenly "the ``Smallest Dog'' category somehow morphed into the more aesthetically appropriate ``Minimalist'' designation" and the winning dog weighed four pounds.  "who cares about a crappy ribbon ... she was the smallest damn dog in MFA that night." It was the teeny tiara that doomed Sula, according to a museum spokesperson...  [Boston Herald]

Dog walker drowned in pit during freak storm Scotland A Glasgow teenager "slipped through a three-foot wide hole a disused mineshaft in a cemetery as he walked his dog in torrential rains during last week’s flash floods." He died trying to rescue the dog from the same fate. For five days, family members clung to hopes he had survived. Rescue workers located his body Sunday and recovered it for burial... [The Scotsman]

Lightning strike kills dog walker Japan "A 72-year-old man was killed by lightning Sunday while walking his dog in the town of Nishine Iwate Prefecture northeastern Japan police said. He was holding an umbrella on a road near a river in the rain when he was hit by lightning around 8 a.m. the police said." (wonder what happened to the dog ... toasted?) [Japan Today]

Owner Drowns Dog at Beach NY "Beachgoers at Jones Beach watched yesterday as a Flushing man repeatedly dunked his pet dachshund underwater for 45 minutes and eventually drowned the pup New York State Park police said. The man walked out of the surf with the dog Noodle in his arms and started to dig a hole to bury the dog." He said it was an 'accident.' [Newsday New York City News]