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Upside Down Dogs

The concept is simple: Wait for your dog to fall asleep, then snap a picture with your camera.

I forget which local grad student tweeted about Upside Down Dogs a few weeks ago, but it has been a near-daily source of chuckles for me every since.


Upside Down Dogs is my default browser page

The concept is simple: Wait for your dog to fall asleep in one of those belly-up positions, then snap a picture with your camera. One 180-degree rotation later, and Rex is grinning for the camera. Do this collectively, and it makes for a lot of time-sucking pagination that laughs away (briefly) whatever pain is on tap for the day. The site recently added some embeddable code.


UPDATE 12/10: Now there is Upside Down Dogs – The Movie

Sadly, Sweetness, our beagle, isn’t a back sleeper. He also likes to burrow under covers—actually, he whimpers if not properly covered—rendering him invisible to the camera. I do have two kids, though …

Upside Down Kids
It is difficult to tell when Carter is upside down.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.

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