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The 10 Best Cats Of 2008

The posting of cat videos is kind of a joke around the nonexistent Videogum water cooler. It's funny because I don't really love being around cats (just due to allergies, OMG gross TMI!) but I do love cat videos, and...  CONTINUE READING THE 10 BEST CATS OF 2008»

Posted on December 23, 2008 in , (30 comments)
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My Favorite Cute Thing Falling Asleep Is A Kitten

There's this site going around (but it's hard to tell how old it is) called Cute Things Falling Asleep (dot ORG). It's extremely self-explanatory. This is my favorite, and at nearly a million views, this kitten is more famous than,...  CONTINUE READING MY FAVORITE CUTE THING FALLING ASLEEP IS A KITTEN»

Posted on December 22, 2008 in , (1 comments)
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Friday Fight Cat: Charley The Cat Who Doesn't Let His Disability Keep Him Down

Normally, there would be a Friday Fight right now, but it's hard to have an IM fight with a person who is on an airplane, and Gabe's furious, violent typing would probably alert an air marshal, so it's really best...  CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT CAT: CHARLEY THE CAT WHO DOESN'T LET HIS DISABILITY KEEP HIM DOWN»

Posted on December 19, 2008 in , (9 comments)
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Cheetah Lady Is Your Girlfriend

And you guys have a baby, named Frida, and you live on the north side of Chicago: Why does she wear glasses? And wouldn't pretending to be a cheetah be really boring after age 7? Just please tell me this...  CONTINUE READING CHEETAH LADY IS YOUR GIRLFRIEND»

Posted on December 19, 2008 in (16 comments)
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There's A New Box Cat Video. (Same Cat, Different Box.)

I'm often asked by someone whose initials are "G.D.": "Does it ever pain you intellectually to post so many cat videos?" To which I reply: "If only you knew how many cat videos I did not post." It's like a...  CONTINUE READING THERE'S A NEW BOX CAT VIDEO. (SAME CAT, DIFFERENT BOX.)»

Posted on December 17, 2008 in , (6 comments)
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Cat Dancers Is A Tragedy

Last night, HBO premiered a new documentary called Cat Dancers, which I was extremely excited about until I learned that it wasn't a documentary about the classic internet meme/joke Dancing With Cats, but was instead a Grey Gardens-style train wreck...  CONTINUE READING CAT DANCERS IS A TRAGEDY»

Posted on December 16, 2008 in , (3 comments)
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The World's Oldest Cat Video Was Made By Thomas Edison

Tipster Louis just pointed out this video from 1894, created by Thomas Edison, of two cats boxing in a ring. Thomas Edison made crazy cat videos in 1894. Mind officially blown: The YouTube commenters are debating whether or not this...  CONTINUE READING THE WORLD'S OLDEST CAT VIDEO WAS MADE BY THOMAS EDISON»

Posted on December 12, 2008 in (2 comments)
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Broccoli Kitten Is The Paris Hilton Of YouTube Kittens

With nearly half a million views in less than a week, the broccoli-loving kitten known imaginatively as "Broccoli Kitten" is hands-down the Kitten Of The Week. But what's BK's real talent, other than that cute little noise he makes?: And...  CONTINUE READING BROCCOLI KITTEN IS THE PARIS HILTON OF YOUTUBE KITTENS»

Posted on December 11, 2008 in , (7 comments)
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The Parrot And The Cat: Your Long Weekend Transition Team

Welcome back to the internet everyone! It's "cyber-Monday," but before you head over to skymall.com for ironic holiday gifts, get back into the free wasting time at work spirit with a parrot petting a cat. It's one of those rare...  CONTINUE READING THE PARROT AND THE CAT: YOUR LONG WEEKEND TRANSITION TEAM»

Posted on December 1, 2008 in , (12 comments)
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The Lazy Cat That Represents Our National Mood

Why is this cat, whose documented adorable laziness was put on YouTube in 2007, suddenly zipping around today? Nobody knows. But we're very close to an influx of doctoral candidate dissertations about the relation between viral videos and current events,...  CONTINUE READING THE LAZY CAT THAT REPRESENTS OUR NATIONAL MOOD»

Posted on November 24, 2008 in (7 comments)
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Cat Takes A Ride On A Roomba

It's not box cat, but this week's cat enjoys a ride on a Roomba, and only a cat could be this bored-looking while riding on a Roomba. This cat is already over Roombas: I want to see a DOG on...  CONTINUE READING CAT TAKES A RIDE ON A ROOMBA»

Posted on November 18, 2008 in (6 comments)
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Friday Fight: What Could Replace The Live Puppy Feed?

lindsay: What should be the next live puppy feed? gabe: uh oh gabe: i never even considered that the live puppy feed gabe: might go away lindsay: uh oh lindsay: puppies grow up, gabe gabe: shut up gabe: you don't...  CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: WHAT COULD REPLACE THE LIVE PUPPY FEED?»

Posted on November 14, 2008 in , , (14 comments)
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Slinky Cat Is Almost As Good As Box Cat

Okay, Okay, Slinky Cat will fulfill this week's one-cat-a-week Promise: Not as good as Box Cat from a few weeks ago, but still good. If the internet had a Person Of The Year like Time Magazine, maybe this year it...  CONTINUE READING SLINKY CAT IS ALMOST AS GOOD AS BOX CAT»

Posted on November 11, 2008 in , (4 comments)
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This Week's Second-Best Cat Video: Box Cat

This cat comes to us from Japan. When I first saw it I was like "How can it be cute, it's not even a kitten." But I was being ageist: Remember childhood, when they said that you could travel to...  CONTINUE READING THIS WEEK'S SECOND-BEST CAT VIDEO: BOX CAT»

Posted on October 30, 2008 in , (10 comments)
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It's Time For Something Extremely Adorable

As the stress of the economy, the election, and Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's attempts at viral videos take their toll on us this week, it's good to take time each day to remember that kittens exist, and that sometimes...  CONTINUE READING IT'S TIME FOR SOMETHING EXTREMELY ADORABLE»

Posted on October 2, 2008 in , (1 comments)
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Cute As Balls: Cat House On The Kings

Here is a short documentary about Lynea Lattanzio (via neatorama), who runs her own "no cage, no kill" cat sanctuary in California. I've always wondered how many cats you needed to have to go from being a crazy cat lady...  CONTINUE READING CUTE AS BALLS: CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS»

Posted on August 25, 2008 in (2 comments)
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Spaghetti Cat Is The New Rick Roll

Continuing our meta tradition of bringing you the best of The Soup each Monday morning, it would be a shame if anyone missed what will hopefully become some sort of talk show inside joke (but probably not). McHale and team...  CONTINUE READING SPAGHETTI CAT IS THE NEW RICK ROLL»

Posted on August 18, 2008 in , , , (7 comments)
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What We Know About "The Frozen Cat"

This video of a streched-out, unblinking, stunned-seeming cat reminds me of what I feel like every Friday afternoon. (Right?) It's also adorable. I want a hypoallergenic cat that can do this trick: Via Neatorama, who say: "This is one strange...  CONTINUE READING WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT "THE FROZEN CAT"»

Posted on July 22, 2008 in , (5 comments)
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