Neuroscience
I don't usually like cute cat photos, but there is an interesting Internet meme going around about krazy kaptions of kat photos.
I first found it on
- Language Log, Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags, which referred me to
- Anil Dash's post Cats Can Has Grammar (see also his MeowChat and PetSpeak), which sent me to
- the Wikipedia entry for lolcat (which apparently is slated for deletion), which led me to these images of cats
- I Can Has Cheezburger?
- lolcats2.com
...
Phew. I'm exhausted from all that running around. And I still don't much care for kute kat photoz, but this was a fun ramble through an Internet meme.
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Neuroscience
Catspeak
I don't usually like cute cat photos, but there is an interesting Internet meme going around about krazy kaptions of kat photos.
I first found it on
- Language Log, Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags, which referred me to
- Anil Dash's post Cats Can Has Grammar (see also his MeowChat and PetSpeak), which sent me to
- the Wikipedia entry for lolcat (which apparently is slated for deletion), which led me to these images of cats
- I Can Has Cheezburger?
- lolcats2.com
...
Phew. I'm exhausted from all that running around. And I still don't much care for kute kat photoz, but this was a fun ramble through an Internet meme.
- Molecules On Parade
I've seen jewelry designers do similar things with molecules (like these neurotransmitter earrings), but none with the finesse of Muscovie Designs. Nice. Caffeine pendant Unrelated, in Meme Therapy's Brain Parade series, Underrated Tech Part...
- Felis Silvestris Lybica: 10,000 Million Years Old
Just as language has been tied to the growth of agriculture (see British & Irish genes: not that far apart, in which I discuss how the Celts may have brought agricultural tools and language to Ireland), so the origin of house cats may be tied to the...
- Code4lib Thoughts (secondhand)
One of my favorite programmers (ProgrammerGuy) went to the Code4Lib conference & gave us an update on some of the interesting things he saw / heard / thought about while there. Here are three of the things that most interested me from his talk. 1. LibraryFind...
- Animal Planet Podcast
Heard a fun podcast from Discovery's Animal Planet called Ultimate Guide: House Cats (mp3 file; full list of Animal Planet podcasts ). Covered some scientific studies (did you know that cats can measure speed with their paw pads?) and some human-cat...
- Why Do Cats Purr?
I posed this question to Brain Boost last week, and I can't stop thinking about the (possible) answer. It's not really current news, but it's so interesting I'm posting it anyway: "A purring cat is not necessarily a happy one; many species-including...