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Aye, lads! Let slip the kittens of war! (Original Post) MynameisBlarney Jan 2013 OP
Here's another: Suich Jan 2013 #1
thanks! MynameisBlarney Jan 2013 #2
I was just going off to look for that. :) GreenPartyVoter Jan 2013 #5
The Cats of War, a photographic essay Major Nikon Jan 2013 #3
We must take back the lonely mountain! We're all out of TidyCat! Paulie Jan 2013 #4
It's things like this MynameisBlarney Jan 2013 #6
The Internet is made of kittens! csziggy Jan 2013 #7
Quite right. MynameisBlarney Jan 2013 #8

csziggy

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7. The Internet is made of kittens!
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 10:51 AM
Jan 2013
The Internet is made of kittens
How the lowly cat, shunned by Hollywood, became an online star: An introduction to Pet Week.

By Sarah Hepola

For all the “Marley & Me’s” and “Beverly Hills Chihuahuas,” for all the Lassies and Benjis, there are almost no movies about cats. Untrainable, skittish and unpredictable beasts that they are, cats are a bust in Hollywood. (The one exception? Morris the cat, whose trademark skill was licking his lips.)

But it’s those skittish, unpredictable qualities that made them screwball comics for a YouTube age. The box-surfing cat (
), the kitty on a Roomba (
), the cat eating gyoza (http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/03/cute-fat-kitty-nommi.htm) — the Internet pumps out new adorable cat videos every day, many of them comic gems that rack up millions of viewers, their sheer simplicity and nuclear cuteness enough to make serious filmmakers soil themselves with envy and futility. (Have I seen “Che”? I have not. Have I seen “Cat with a bag on its head?” (http://www.dailyhaha.com/_vids/bag_over_head_cat.htm) Uh, yeah: Like 10 times.)

More: http://www.salon.com/2009/02/10/cat_internet/


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