sniff me a smelly christmas

i figured out what all dogs must want for Xmas. forget the shrink-wrapped bones.

after tolerating all the blabbering from humans about smells (that a flower smells nice but i stink, that i have dog breath, that the meat is old and stinky, yada yada yada) when in fact HUMANS really just have NO SENSE OF SMELL at all...

and whats with the perfumed shampoo that can be smelled (by us dogs and cats) a block away? (that's about 20 shampoos upwind of our house at any one time)

i want a smell-o-vision device!

wired magazine writers blog about them.

i think i'll get one for the cats, too, though i think they'll need an internet connection out in the garage now that they live out there

imagine! take control of what i'm sniffing. sniff anything i want, anytime i want, and if i can go wireless, anywhere i want. i'll be in mobile sniffing bliss. i'll be the most popular dog at the dog park. i'll dial up "hot dog" and won't all those big dogs just swarm around me.

as i think about wikipedia, where lots and lots of humans write information about stuff (my primary means to decipher what humans are talking about half the time)...

...and i think about the new explosion of non-text content on the internet (youtube.com & google's videos, for example). (seriously, is there anything better on the internet than this?

...so it occurs to me that dogs will really finally become netizens (netidogs?) when we can contribute SMELL content on the internet. how many smells do you think my humans are really going to be able to post, or appreciate, compared to a dog like me? it's like the 7 words for snow according to an eskimo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow)

but in this case it will be ... you google "rotting meat with gravy" at smells.google.com and you'll get 32 (synthetic) listings, all of them posted by MOI!!!

i think this could be the big break for us dogs on the internet, sort of how keyboards were the tipping point for humans.

i can't wait to blog lamb. you'll smell it here first.