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The Lyons' Feline Genetics Laboratory at the University of California at Davis has developed Cat Ancestry, a simple test that lets snobby cat owners find out for sure if their precious kitty is truly a Persian or something. What, you're gonna throw out a bunch of kittens if their parents don't match?

If you have Internet, you know all about cat videos. Cat videos are what makes the Internet go around. Cat videos are so prominent that when Google had their brain simulation look at the Internet, it learned what cats were. But why should cat videos only be an Internet thing? That's what Katie Czarniecki Hill must have thought to herself before organizing The Internet Cat Video Film Festival (ICVFF), a real-life film festival for your favorite Internet cats.

A team of Google scientists fed their 16,000 core brain simulation 10 million images from the Internet and told it to do whatever. So what did it do? It learned what cats look like. That picture up there is its mental picture of a cat, which appears to be a faintly annoyed tabby. If there was ever a time when the Internet actually teaches us something, this is one of those times.

Redditor haissam93 has seen some movies and has a cat, so the likely result is -- you guessed it -- recreating some famous movie scenes with the cat in place of the actors. As you can see from the above recreation, it's pretty sensual. Check out a few recreations below -- one of them is a topless scene. Don't you worry, haissam93 assured us that the cat hated every second of it, but cats hate most things, so it's par for the course.

Dutch artist Bart Jansen was in mourning after his cat was run over by a car and killed. In the midst of his grief, inspiration struck Jansen: Take his cat's stuffed, tanned body and turn it into a quadrotor helicopter. And the name of this deceased, flying feline? Orville.

Cats have been pretty keen on the iPad since its initial release. Well, if not exactly "keen on" then at least "perplexed by." That being the case, why not capitalize on cat owners' tendency to watch (and record) their cats doing funny things by releasing iPad apps just for cats? Friskies has already been down that road with games like Jitter Bug and Cat Fishing, but at SXSW the cat food company introduced a new kind of cat-centric iPad game: You vs. Cat. I think the title is pretty self-explanatory.

Even nowadays, people are still getting up in arms about kids playing violent video games. Clearly, the more important thing is not letting cats watch boxing. This little guy picks up the imitable behavior extremely fast, and there's no telling how many cat toys he may go on to brutalize with his new found ability. That being said, if you threw this cat in the ring with, say, a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robot, I'd totally bet on the cat.

Now back when I learned how to beatbox --poorly-- it was "boots and skirts" but I suppose cats are fine, and I must admit I'm a fan of the catbee. This video, with music by Robert Clouth and animation by Henry Edmonds, is one of the coolest visualizations of beatboxing I've seen in a while, and believe you me, I've seen a few. Give it a look. I've got to go out and pick up a new pair of leather knee-high cats.

In Kitty City, everything is made of cats. That might sound cute, but the results end up in squarely on the "unsettling" end of the spectrum. I think that's exactly what cyriak, the video's creator, is aiming to do.

Normally, sleephugs would be creepy, but in this case, they're probably safe-for-work.

(via BuzzFeed)

Like barbecue ribs and whipped cream (which is, surprisingly, not bad) or cookies and ketchup (which, unsurprisingly, tastes exactly how it sounds it would), the above video shows another extremely unlikely combination--a cat and some dolphins. From the side of what appears to be a boat or dock, the cat, adorably named Thunder, nuzzles on some dolphins that seem to be petting Thunder with their noses. Adorable.

(Super Punch via Neatorama)

This cat and I have something in common. His name is Jimmy, and that's what relatives, females to which I have been endeared, and males with southern accents call me. What we don't share, however, is the number of fingers on our hands. He has six, you see, whereas I only have the five. However, Jimmy and I both shoot a thumbs up when appropriate, so we also have this in common. He can do it on command though, as evidenced by the video, and I will probably be rebellious and not oblige when given the same command. If there's a treat involved, though...

(Geekologie via Neatorama)

These are some cats, and they are completely indifferent about having cups on their head. What else is there to say? (via Reddit)

Booby trapping a cat to turn it into a bowling ball is pretty ingenius, and thankfully, it's just plastic cups instead of heavy pins, so approval all around.

(via BuzzFeed)

On February 16th, 2001, human culture was forever changed when the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" music video was uploaded to Newgrounds.com. (Person from 2001: "YouTube? What's that?") Of course, Zero Wing, the remarkably badly translated Japanese space shooter game from which the video dialogue is yoinked, was made in 1989, and even in 2000, forumers thought the All Your Base thing was old. But the Newgrounds video was enough to make it cross over from geeky shibboleth to one of the first true viral hits. (A week after the video surfaced, Wired wrote about the All Your Base phenomenon.) So thank you, Zero Wing, Newgrounds, and uploader BadCRC; you have set up us the bomb in our hearts. (KYM via TDW)