www.breadedcats.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their bread, or why.
posted by radwolf76
on Feb 10, 2012 -
50 comments
Meet Brant Widgeon, an Astronomical Image Enhancement Engineer. This short video goes into the steps he takes to clean up the images taken of space. One of the most technically difficult parts of Brant's job, however, is
dealing with space cats.
posted by routergirl
on Jan 31, 2012 -
11 comments
Dog Poop Insurance is a product that would potentially be available for a single-premium at the time of purchasing your new shoes.
posted by gman
on Jan 23, 2012 -
15 comments
If cats ran the telecom company (in a world of cats), it would
sort of look like look exactly like this. (via the boing)
One of you will spend the evening either transcribing this into English, or putting subtitles on it, I just know you will. Please let me know when you're done.
posted by tomswift
on Sep 14, 2011 -
32 comments
After decades of breeding, the complexity of
cat color genetics is quite well understood. Genes which control
pigmentation,
hair length,
color dilution,
banding (agouti),
white fur (dominant, spotting, or albino, sometimes linked with
deafness),
tabby patterns, and more combine to create a
wide spectrum of possibilities. Specific traits such as
white gloving among Birman cats and the amber color found only in Norwegian Forest Cats (which comes from a single female born in 1981!) have also been isolated and studied, and can be affordably
tested for.
On top of all that, fur color is
epigenetic as well as genetic, and sometimes responds to the cat's environment. If you clone a calico cat, you get a kitten which
doesn't have a similar coat due to
X-inactivation, and pointed cats (such as Burmese, Siamese, and Tonkinese) have
temperature-sensitive coloration.
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posted by vorfeed
on Aug 28, 2011 -
90 comments
Get ready to meet the fourth or fifth most famous pairing in Soviet children's animation: the meek, civil
Leopold the Cat, and the rowdy
mice who endlessly harass him in the course of 11 animated shorts (and a non-canonical feature made after the fall of the USSR).
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posted by Nomyte
on Jun 29, 2011 -
25 comments
