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This week, here kitty kitty. Are you familiar with Schrödinger's cat? You know, the theory about whether or not a cat in a closed box is dead or alive until you open the box and find out. It probably has to do with when you last fed the cat or whether you thought to put airholes in the box, or whether you've gassed it to death in the name of science, or something. Anyway, this guy explains it a lot better than I can.Now, I might have misjudged the man, but chances are if Schrödinger was alive today he wouldn't be pondering the implications of quantum mechanics. Instead he'd almost certainly be running a charming photoblog called Cats In Boxes and living off the resulting T-shirt sales – if someone hadn't already beaten him to it. Of course I have plenty of evidence to support my hypothesis because you, the easily pleased netizens of the web, can't seem to get enough cat. And the more gimmicky the better. I'm sure Schrödinger would have strongly disapproved, but the most recent cat blog craze has been Cats That Look Like Hitler (formerly Hitlercats). Cats That Look Like Hitler does exactly what the name implies and confirms what I had suspected about cats all along, which My Cat Hates You does nothing to dispute. Don't worry though, there are far more sites about non-evil cats on the web. With a central conceit that no doubt has the ancient Egyptians rotating furiously in their sarcophagi, the enduring Stuff On My Cat is still going strong, while saccharine junkie blog, Cute Overload, has a section dedicated to the appealing combination of cats and racks. And then there's Joel Veitch, who has famously made a living out of cute intercats – dancing kittens, to be precise - animating them for things like this (quite literally) rather good Elbow video. Maybe I didn't give Schrödinger enough credit earlier. Maybe he'd be less interested in boxes, and dedicate more of his time to the Infinite Cat Project, another delightful premise that's horribly addictive once you start browsing. It's probably fair to assume that as long as there are both cats and the internet, people will be finding new reasons to put pictures of one on the other.
David Thair
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 useful linkscatsinboxes.com catsthatlooklikehitler.com www.mycathatesyou.com stuffonmycat.com cute overload www.rathergood.com infinitecat.com
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