The results of Valve’s Portal 2 music video contest are in, and they’re exactly as creative and inspired as you’d expect. Though Coulton’s tune had the novelty appeal, The National’s ...

The Pets.com dog sock puppet — with its black-and-white eyes, silver wristwatch collar and reporter-style microphone — was the newest breakout star on TV. He was a highlight of the 1999 Macy ...

Pets.com at its tail end November 7, 2000: 7:17 p.m. ET Pet supply e-tailer to go out of business; fate of sock puppet icon unknown By Staff Writer Richard Richtmyer ...

Pets.com ran ads of a dog sock puppet interviewing people on the street. The mascot appeared in a Super Bowl commercial and even got its own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in 1999.

SAN FRANCISCO -- In the end, not even the famous Sock Puppet could prevent Pets.com Inc. from becoming one of the first publicly traded Internet companies to fail. Tuesday morning, as employees ...

The puppet had already inspired a children’s toy when, in 2010, the pet product company Multipet International Inc. brought Lamb Chop to the dog toy market in the form of a 10-inch-tall toy with ...