Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Mauritania in photos, a Mr. Bingo rip-off, dog TV and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Dog TV With 24 hours of advertising-free programming, the first television network for dogs recently launched through DirectTV. As ridiculous as it sounds, the network founders claim the color-enhanced programming can help dogs—whose owners are away most of the day—with separation anxiety. At just $5 per month, it may just be the cheapest form of therapy out there. 2. Drug Use and Genius Sigmund …

Vantigo San Francisco

Changing the way people see the city with personalized tours in a refurbished '71 Volkswagen van

Erik and Amy Hormann felt that as a young, entrepreneurial couple, they needed some justification for buying a bright red 1971 Volkswagen Van—as if owning a bright red 1971 Volkswagen Van wasn’t justification alone. With so many on-the-go services on the rise in cities like San Francisco, the options and opportunities seemed endless. And it was with their love for their home city that Vantigo …

Pig Mountain 2013

Live high on the hog at a punk-inspired feast in the Catskills

Pack your bags this month for Narrowsburg, New York and make a weekend out of Pig Mountain‘s annual pig roast on 24 August 2013. This is the event’s third year of pig roasting and it looks to be getting bigger and bigger. There will be a projected 2,500 attendees this year and 14 pigs cooked by 14 New York City chefs. An event that started …