Now you can wear your cat as a beard

Sarah Howell Reader Find

By Sarah Howell in New Trends on Thursday 23 May 2013

It’s as easy as herding cats. Firstly grab your feline with two hands, place said cat on your face and, erm, with your other hand take a photo. Voila! You’re cat-bearding. This wonderful new Internet craze is easier than owling, takes less effort than the Harlem shake and is safer than planking. Maybe. Hithhhhh, Wrowwwww, [...]

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Now you can type with a cat font

Erik Kraft Reader Find

By Erik Kraft in New Trends on Thursday 16 May 2013

Nekofont. The internet is powered by cats, so you might as well write in cats too. If you’re secretly 8, like me, you’ll want to test it out with swears. Then you can get on with your life. (Not really, because you are writing words with cats).

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Cats as sushi: a bizarre Japanese ad series

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Tuesday 14 May 2013

Despite the recent fascination with everything cats, I don’t like felines. I don’t care if Twitter made an alternate cat version that’s super cute. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I’m allergic to the little fur-balls and don’t enjoy their obnoxious memes. So when I came across this bizarre ad series by [...]

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Sports Balls Replaced With Cats website

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Thursday 25 April 2013

It says here on the site that it’s ‘just a bunch of athletes competing for the sweetest kittens’. Whether it’s football, water polo or basketball, the athletes will take care of the cat, thank you very much.

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The next big meme: Cardboard Cat Art

Erik Kraft Reader Find

By Erik Kraft in New Trends on Thursday 18 April 2013

I’m not going to pretend that I wasn’t a big fan of the “breading” trend that swept internet cats recently, but I did find myself wondering where we could possibly go from there. We must not rest on our cat-posting laurels. Fortunately, I think there is now a step up. You get all the thrills [...]

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What goes on in the brains of cat owners

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Illustration on Saturday 13 April 2013

What can we say again? We just really love Wendy MacNaughton (check out her To-Do Venn diagram and Universal Laws of Safe Distance solar system map here). She recently illustrated another cool pie chart breaking down the thoughts of cat owners. Spot-on, too.

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Genetically modified cats: Hypoallergenic, glow in the dark

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Monday 8 April 2013

What, genetically modified cats? A San Diego-based company, Allerca Lifestyle Pets, actually claimed they could offer hypoallergenic kitties for folks with allergies. The cats, said to have gone through selective breeding to leave out with the glycoprotein that makes cat-allergic people sick, sneeze non-stop or break out into hives were reportedly sold for $8,000. This [...]

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Human-to-Cat Translator lets you talk to felines

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 3 April 2013

The Human-to-Cat Translator claims to be able to analyze any voice recording and convert most human languages into cat meows. The free version comes with 3 feline voices, which sounds like it’s enough to impress any house cat. Apparently the app comes bundled with over 175 samples from more than 25 cats, or ‘different kinds [...]

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Cats In The Alley: the comic book adventures of punk rock cats

Erik Kraft Reader Find

By Erik Kraft in New Illustration on Tuesday 26 March 2013

Cats In The Alley started as two soul mate cats who were living in an alley. Dizzy and Tabs are punk rock cats who like books and libraries and making things out of stuff thoughtless people have thrown out. They don’t like eminent domain and things that would ruin the alley. What I really think? [...]

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Menacing cat monsters

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 20 March 2013

For all their fluffiness and flakiness, we knew the cats weren’t just messing about on Earth. These terrorizing feline monsters remind us who’s boss. We should just roll over and play dead right after we surrender everything to them.

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Cats that look like Ron Swanson

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in Cool Websites on Friday 8 March 2013

For all you Parks and Rec fans out there, this is the cat-based Tumblr for you. We all know that there’s a million cat photos on the internet, but apparently there are quite a handful that look like Ron Swanson. Who would have thought?

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Cat Scientist Tumblr

Rebekah Rhoden Contributor

By Rebekah Rhoden in Cool Websites on Thursday 7 March 2013

We all know that cats dominate the internet, but now they’re taking over the realm of science too. This hilarious tumblr shows cats experimenting in the laboratory and other scientific locations. If you’re a cat lover who’s feeling a bit scientific, you can submit a photo of your own.

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Cats are destroying the planet AND our minds

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Saturday 9 February 2013

Domestic cats have been getting bad press lately for as one of the world’s top invasive species. Now, thanks to evolutionary biologist Jaroslav Flegr — whom National Geographic dubbed a ‘cat detective — we know they can make us all a bit cuckoo too. The guy discovered that the toxoplasma gondii parasite that’s pervasive in [...]

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This cat will beat you at every shell game

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in Video on Thursday 31 January 2013

YouTube user moonli927 has a cat video that has garnered over 2.1 million views in just one fortnight. It’s impossible not to see why. In it, her white cat Kido basically plays multiple rounds of the shell game, expertly pawing out the correct shell every single time. Unexpected bonus: the cat narrows his eyes every [...]

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Fact, Jeremy Renner is Grumpy Cat

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Friday 4 January 2013

Haha, the Buzzfeed folks had us in stitches with this bunch of images showing how Jeremy Renner is really Grumpy Cat — yes, the same Grumpy Cat that has become a meme hit of late. Have a look and we’ll be damned if you don’t see the likeness.

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