Here’s a look at The Power Paws Assistance Dogs fund-raiser. You can see those who participated in the “Walk ‘n’ Roll Dog Walk” returning from their short course. There’s the usual intermingling of dogs, dog owners and those who just plain love dogs. And if you have never seen dogs bob for apples, you are in for a treat.

The Podsafe music is “Glass of Wine” by The New Autonomous Folksingers. Sounds like something from the movie, “A Mighty Wind.”

Yes, this is (according to the Chinese New Year) “The Year of the Dog.” The commemorate the celebration, we went to The Power Paws Assistance Dogs fund-raiser at Tempe Town Lake. The highlight--I mean the real highlight--had to be the Arizona Great Dane Drill Team. No need to imagine what it’s like to see the giant, regal animals move in unison (a form of obedience training), just take a look. In fact, this is one of two clips.

According to published reports, Amazon plans on offering streamed downloads of movies. OK. Interesting plan as Amazon experimented with movies on its site a while back (independent feature-ettes that actually were quite cool). But this? Not sure what the plan is and how it will prevent people from capturing the streams (no brainier) and circulating them on the Web. I imagine there will be some sort of DRM scheme, but that remains to be seen.. When companies proclaim that by using streams consumers cannot download them, they are naive and shortsighted (and don’t spend much time at hackers sites).

Lots of pieces of this puzzle are missing, but the cognoscenti have been waiting for Amazon (and eBay as well) to enter the digital download fray. Does Apple have anything to worry about? Doubtful.