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An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

It’s a well-documented phenomenon that engineers have a thing about cats. Which I think just proves that cats win. At any rate, it’s why cats are so superiorly-represented on the internet. I think this is probably the absolute pinnacle of that phenomenon.

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The Dog’s Diary / The Cat’s Diary

Update (4.24):

Bubblehead’s cat Hercules exhibits similar subversive impulses.

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Although I disagree with this sort of thing, I admit there was much squealing. Fat kittens are just. so. cuuuuute!!!

He was in the news over there a lot a couple months ago. Don’t remember if I linked to it or not then.

But seriously, there’s something to be said for the relation between the loss of […]

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Curtsy: this collection. I like the last one. Y’all.

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He found the LOLCat Bible (aka Teh Holiez Bibul).

I like Psalm 23.

If you’re inclined to take against sacrilege, I wouldn’t do too much digging. But Psalm 23 is funny.

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BBC - Cat joins exclusive genome club

A pedigree cat called Cinnamon has made scientific history by becoming the first feline to have its DNA decoded. The domestic cat now joins the select club of mammals whose genome has been deciphered - including dogs, chimps, rats, mice, cows and people. […]

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The ultimate in catblogging:

Update (11.2): The video autoplays, and since nothing makes me descend into an impregnable black rage more than blogs with ads and things that automatically play when you load the page, especially when they’re not right at the top and you end up having to go looking for the controls to shut […]

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Jesus cat.

(Audio, while adding to the comedic effect, will result in a very awful song stuck in your head for days. Possibly weeks. With potentially catastrophic consequences. Consider yourselves warned.)

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So, this started as a cute little notebook piece on cats in No. 10 through the 20th century, next thing you know I really am in tears:

Telegraph - The claws are out again in Number 10. By Andrew Pierce

Only a cat. I am quite sure it’s what some people say behind my back […]

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The Telegraph - Nine more lives at No 10

There’s a cat again at No 10 (and No 11) Downing Street, a decade after the banishment of Humphrey by Cherie Blair - no cat-lover she. Indeed Mrs Blair, in an attempt not to appear heartless, posed with the poor creature grasped […]

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Telegraph - Sybil the cat sets up home in Number 10

First Gordon Brown and the family settled in - amid a blaze of publicity - back in June. Now, quietly and away from the cameras, Sybil has joined them at Number Ten. Downing Street has officially announced that the nation […]

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The Telegraph - Over-domesticated

There are more ways of killing a cat, the proverb says, than drowning it in cream. Yet that, or something like it, is what the nation is doing to increasing numbers. Cats are getting too fat. It’s no fun being a fat cat, and many are succumbing to diseases such […]

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who-sucks - Japan’s Hello Kitty Costume For Cats: A Nightmare Come True?

There is a special circle of hell set aside for the people who did to their cats what is pictured on that webpage. The dog though, he deserves it.

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The Times - Animal House Cats have a longer and stranger pedigree than dogs, and even humans

Cats are curious. Worldwide they are the most numerous pets of humans. Yet their origins were lost in mystery, if not the shrubbery – until today. Now we report that Oxford scientists have finally cracked the origin of […]

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