Flickr’s blog recently highlighted an amazing series of photos of lounging dogs.

Well, Charles can do that too. He just prefers to lie on top of someone.

After hearing all about the “Grip of Death” associated with iPhone 4 and its ability to bring network signals and download speeds to their knees, and ultimately inspired by Marco Arment’s own testing, I decided I’d try it out myself. Rather than seeing slower download speeds, mine seem to get faster when covering the antenna gap.

A few points:

• Clear’s wifi is at times awesome and at times horrible. It was horrible tonight.
• In my particular environment, the “Grip of Death” appears to be quite invigorating for my download speeds despite a one-bar drop in signal. The average DL speed was virtually unchanged from when it was sitting there untouched.
• It looks like the worst thing I can do is a) use my home wifi, or b) hold my phone other than how I would normally hold it.
• I am an antenna.
• While writing this post, I noticed my bars alternate between two and five simply due to AT&T’s network peculiarities. I wonder to what extent this GoD problem is exaggerated simply because of signal strength variations that happen on their own.