Reading: Buck Godot
Music: IFC podcast
TV/Movie: Les Miserables (1934 version)
Link o' the Day: The Bujold Nexus

In honor of the newest addition to the Teehan family, today's Rumors edition features claims about dogs that you probably hadn't heard before.



Dog drool was used by ancient Sumerians as an ingredient to beer, as a stomach medicine, and as a glue.

Supposedly, one version of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," shows a dog sleeping at the feet of Judas. The phrase "Let sleeping dogs lie" originates with this legend and suggests that Judas was innocent or that, at the very least, there is more to the story than the current version of the Bible states.

Dog hair burns at a higher temperature than any other mammal hair which is why it was often used as insulation in the 18th century.



The smartest dog in history was Palimor, a six year-old boxer-mix, who received a BA from USC, and an MBA from Harvard Business. He sat on the board of directors for Mobil for three months before an untimely end involving a bar of chocolate.

The largest dog to have ever roamed the Earth is the extinct Irish Rover which, according to remains discovered in peat bogs, was as tall as a horse, but with the relative leanness of a greyhound. Scientists estimate it could have had a running speed of over 70 miles per hour.

It's not that dogs know how to swim as it is they don't know how to drown.

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I've recently heard that author Lois McMaster Bujold has turned in the next Miles Vorkosigan book to Baen and that it is scheduled to come out in late 2010. I'm a huge fan of these books and am very excited at this news. Today's link goes to her official homepage: The Bujold Nexus. If you've not read any of her work, you can get an excellent preview at the Baen Free Library.

Cheers!