You think they're safe from such things, but then this comes along: dog flu.

A cough. That's the strange part. Every dog sneezes from time to time, but I've never heard a dog cough. There's a vaccine en route in case the current dog-flu vaccine is ineffective.

TURN IT OFF. It's anti-social-media week. Digg says:

The article links to the sponsored video for Steve Coogan's new series. I am a big Coogan fan. This left me cold. As for not participating in social media, if that means not looking at Twitter, fine. If it means not checking texts, no.

ARCHITORTURE The New York Times reviews the new Whitney Museum, and the article itself is one of those Snowfall-type fancy things. The building itself looks like most modern museums, inasmuch as you can't imagine a private company wanting to pay for something that ugly. The article also has nice things to say for the previous Whitney, which was hated by everyone until they just got used to the damned thing.

VotD Oh my. He doesn't grab the wall, and the angle on the pizza joint is wrong, but otherwise this is perfect.