This Cat is a Jerk Alarm Clock [Video]
by James Plafke | 5:35 pm, February 10th
This alarm clock probably doesn’t come with a humane snooze button.
(via BuzzFeed)
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Animals in Slow Motion: A Collection [Videos]
by Jamie Frevele | 6:02 pm, February 9th
Everything looks excellent in slow motion, especially animals. They are regal, proud warriors, even if they’re domesticated cats and dogs catching a treat. When shot on high-speed film then played back to dramatic instrumental music, they are just the finest examples of their kind that ever existed. Behold! Animals in majestic slow motion!
Read on...Cats In Zero Gravity
by Susana Polo | 12:55 pm, January 15th
I love cats. But listen.
A couple summers ago, my cat sprained a leg and had to wear a day-glow green cast for ten days and be kept indoors. This was to her, a former feral kitten and life-long indoor-outdoor cat, completely unacceptable. But as I said to her, as she stump-walked angrily around the house: “If you were a dog, you would be sad, and pathetic, and I could sympathize.
“But you are a cat. And so it is hilarious.”
(via io9.)
This Cat Must Be So Annoyed [Video]
by James Plafke | 5:18 pm, December 27th
You’d think it would just use its reflexes and speed and perform a feline peace-out, but instead it kind of whines while probably hatching a secret plan to destroy the little girl.
(BuzzFeed via The Daily What)
Baby Really, Really Likes Playing With Cat [Video]
by James Plafke | 1:10 pm, December 24th
This baby is going to lose her mind when she grows up and finds out about the Internet.
(via reddit)
“Cat Diaries: The First-Ever Movie Filmed by Cats!” [Video]
by James Plafke | 2:39 pm, December 13th
Sure, the “diaries” name is reminiscent of something from late-night Cinemax, and it’s basically an ad for Friskies, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less entertaining. In August 2010, Friskies attached cameras around the necks of 25 cats, which they called repurrters, and let the cats film for five days. The resulting footage was edited into this adorable video showcasing what it’s like to be a cat and eat ladybugs and drink from puddles.
(Friskies RePURRters via PetaPixel via Gizmodo)
This is A Video Where A Cat Fights Something Other Than A Crow
by Susana Polo | 5:33 pm, November 27th
Corvidae. Remind us to hire some the next time we need someone distracted, harassed, or misdirected.
(via BoingBoing.)
The Japanese Island with More Cats than People
by Robert Quigley | 2:46 pm, November 10th
Japanese curiosity blog Tofugu alerts us to the curious existence of an island called Tashirojima, off the northeastern coast of Japan’s main island, Honshū. Apparently, cats on Tashirojima greatly outnumber people, of whom there are only about 100, more than half of whom are 65 years or older. Tofugu: “It’s like that ‘cat lady,’ but an entire island.”
How did Tashirojima become so overrun with cats? Thank the island’s fishermen:
Read on...Cats Morphing into Croissants [Video]
by Robert Quigley | 5:51 pm, September 21st
Because why not. The uploader writes, “Some cat’s photos made me to remind croissant (or may be bagel) by their colors and shapes. This is just a image conjured in my mind :D” Real-life meat-o-vision at its weirdest.
24 Cats Dressed as Marvel Characters
by Susana Polo | 1:22 pm, September 17th
Agent M, Marvel comics blogger extraordinaire was tweeting with some friends yesterday about “Kitty Avengers and Kitty versions of Marvel characters on Twitter,” and things went naturally from then on.
Which is to say that six different professional artists made a score of interpretations of different Marvel characters as cats.
See below, of course.
Read on...
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The Unintentional Hilarity of Twitter Spam Bots
Back Alley Internet is a recurring column in which we explore some of the weirder corners of the Internet and see what we can drudge up for your amusement and education. This week: We study the legions of Twitter bots that trawl the trending topics and spit out some unintentionally hilarious tweets.
Tweetosystem
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Eric Limer
You have to tew two tutus?! I have to tew two tutus too!
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Max
The Pizza and Pasta Foundation supports the federal SAUCE act. Ask your congressman to put some SAUCE on it!
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Eric Limer
I like how if you make a mistake typing a popular URL, invariably the site you find is all "YOU'RE WINNER!" It's uplifting for a second.
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Max
Spam for work involves a false teeth supplier and someone looking to buy magnetic plates.
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Eric Limer
So that improv show was definitely a good idea. Ben Schwartz, Zach Woods, Justin Long, AND Adam Scott. #EverythingWentBetterThanExpected
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Max
Got a lot crossed off my to-do list tonight, and I'm starting to feel significantly less freaked about about, well, life.
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Eric Limer
I need trephination like I need a hole in the head.
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Max
AIM CHAT: I like you, too. *belushis*
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Eric Limer
Listening to Call Me Maybe and cropping screengrabs of Twitter bots. It's times like this that I really love my job.
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James Plafke
Popular rapper Ladies Love Removed Eyes.
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Eric Limer
I am genuinely enjoying using So.cl to make weird picture mash-ups. I just made a collage of becks. http://t.co/ulGbDbwn
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Eric Limer
This Facebook IPO coverage needs to stop cuz I'm seriously sick of seeing Zuckerberg staring creepily at me from the top of every story.
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Max
Put on your poodle skirts and choose your favorite syrup because we're gonna have a sock-hop at the iHop.
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James Plafke
I just threatened my mom to email me something by telling her I'd discuss with her all the lady celebrities I'd have sex with.
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Max
New Hallmark Card: "I held an extended conversation with you without being able to remember your name" Inside: "I'm sorry."
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Eric Limer
To any of you bros who might like to ice me, I encourage you to act on that urge, bro.
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Eric Limer
If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer
What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer
"Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop
Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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