The history of house cats

The Smithsonian magazine has a great article about the history of house cats. Cats have been around humans almost as long as dogs. The ancient Egyptians revered them as sacred, mummified them when they died and buried them in special cemeteries. Today there are about 90 million house cats in the US.

The best quote in the entire article was by Carlos Driscoll, one of the researchers studying the history of cats. He said,

"We think what happened is that the cats sort of domesticated themselves"

That single quote, so fits the image of a house cat.

Check it out: A Brief History of House Cats

LoLCode, a programming language for random cats with captions

If you aren't into programming you probably won't get this. In fact, if you haven't encountered the exciting and superbly stupid Internet fad of posting captions on pictures of other peoples cats, you probably still won't get this even if you are into programming.
LolCode is a new(theoretical) programming language based on Anil Dash's LoLCat grammar dictionary. If you haven't read it you really should. It's hilarious. You can find his grammar dictionary at Cats can has grammar.

Anyway, back to the programming language. Here is an example of loop to count to 10.

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
 UP VAR!!1
 VISIBLE VAR
 IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE

I love the begining and ending tags in the language. Hai and Kthxbye are just great.

Check it out here: LOLCODE.com

And if you are interested in seeing a big repository of cats with funny captions, you can check out this site: Meme Cats