Kitten Fluff

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Network of testimonials,
originally uploaded by GustavoG.

This is pretty amazing. Being a geographer whose earlier academic forays were into the culture of cyberspace, I have always been fascinated by people’s need to “map”places in cyberspace.

In this case, it is a Flickr * user who has created a network map of Flickr members’ relationships and “connectedness” based on what others have to say about them. Gets the ole geography juices going. Smacks of ordering and conrol and power though?

Hmm… You will probably have to click the image to get the best view of it.

*Yes, I know, I mention that site a lot – so what?

manwhofellasleep,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

I have been terribly crap at keeping this updated over the weekend. I can blame a number of reasons outside of my control. Blugg’s Mac G4 * likes to be a typical Apple product and flick its nose up at doing anything you would usually do on any other computer. In other words, I cannot post properly from it because it does not want to recognise all the functions on blogger.

The second reason might be because I have been hacking up green stuff and all such delightful mucus from the depths of my chest. I blame this on London transport.

I verge on the obsessive compulsive when I am rammed into a shoebox-sized carriage with a hundred other hackers who see fir to wipe their nose and then deposit mucus** on the handrails. I also loathe people who do not cover up their mouths when the cough. Yes, loathe.

Can someone explain the point of hankies please? I don’t mean paper ones, I mean the good old fashioned material ones. I just retrieved such an item from my draw and have deposited some mucus within, but now it is soaking. I don’t want to put it back on my nose. I now either have to stuff a damp, snot filled bit of cloth up my sleeve, or dry it on my knee before I can reuse it. Surely that can’t be healthy?

I did however, manage to add a few new links which you can pick up over there (nods to the right)… One is a Flickr photostream of ROBOTS!! Woohoo! The second is a page which keeps track of all the most recent podcasts to hit the castosphere – I have just called it that because I refuse to go down the “pod route” – Apple get too much publicity as it is.

I have also added a link to Themanwhofellasleep which made me giggle out loud last night. Written by a North Londoner – he lives in Crouch End I have gathered – he seems to be very good at art. I particularly like his Journal of Hope and Despair, in which he give us the good news that Armageddon has been postponed a year. He also has an interesting account of what happened when the Manic Street Preachers came round for tea. He also has some great links to vintage porn.***

*Which incidentally continues to give me electric static shocks – that can’t be right can it? Is it just to keep one awake?

**Is is just me or does everyone else type “mucus” when they mean “music” and “music” when they mean “mucus”?

***When I say vintage, I mean *really* vintage – like big old dresses and wigs stuff, not Sam Fox circa 1986

Scary tennis,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

You would not catch me doing this for NAY MONEY. Besides the fact I am shite at tennis, it would scare the shit out me. I always lose the balls.

Subversive knitting,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

You know Blugg is always telling me to “do something” with the very little free time I have in between working and traveling to work and back*, making dinner**, blogging, and watching TV etc.

Maybe this is something I could get into. Seriously. I think the lack of cat knitting is obscene and someone has to do something about it otherwise the situation will become critical.

*Daily I am away from home for 12 hours – it takes me an hour do-to-door to get from home to work.
**Although, to be fair, in The New Deal, Blugg does now “cook” twice a week after 5 and a half years of nagging.

Boing Boing report on the Institute of Dukes of Hazzard’s* search for a full-time blogger who will blog every night and day on the the venerable TV that brought short shorts to the masses.

They are even going to be paid $100,000 for the “pleasure”. I’d do it.

*No – I didn’t believe there was such a thing either

Philippe II,
originally uploaded by Moon’y.

Just found another photo Flickr group with a felinetastic collection* of cats. Very nice. It’s called I Love My Cat.*

*There are more than 6,000 of the cutees on there
**Which makes me even more of proper cat owners who have the real thing unlike us. We have lots of fake ones and randomn cat snaps.

Romance Novels,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

This is hilarious… Old cheesy romance novels get new titles to suit their delightfully pseudo-real pictures. Almost makes me want to read one. Maybe not. My favourites are “I Married a Sissy Boy” and “Lord of the Hissy Fits”.*

*This would make a great B3ta challenge if it has not already been one…

BBC NEWS Magazine R.I.P. Gold iPod Mini

Bet they are going to be like gold dust on eBay now…

BBC NEWS Magazine Bedtime for Gonzo?
Great piece from the BBC News website magazine on Hunter S Thompson who died at the weekend.

Does a good job of explaining exactly what the term “gonzo journalism” means, and has some great quotes from some of the man’s best works.

Sibsi the roundest cat in the world,
originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

Sibsi has featured on my Flickr stream before – she is the prettiest yet the roundest pussy cat I have ever seen.

weirdcats,
originally uploaded by schrottenberg.

I know, I know it is cruel and animals should never have to dress up. But looookkkkk hehehehhee – the one on the left looks like he is about to scratch someone’s scrotum off.

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Lick-Lick-Lick,
originally uploaded by Minou.

Has to be a Courtney Love…

BBC NEWS Technology Google’s toolbar sparks concern

Hmmm… testing out something else – the Blog This! feature of blogger…. The only thing is I think it means you HAVE to install the Google toolbar which is not altogether bad, but it does mean you have to make sure you turn off the “send information about me so Google can look at everything I do” bit OFF…

Woohoo! This worked…

Nifty little application from Picasa that lets you upload yer photos to a blog… Like Flikr does… Will see if I need it or not.

In the meantime, bored.

originally uploaded by The Kitten’s Toe.

Bloggers of the world unite! Today is a global action day to raise awareness about the bloggers in Iran – any many others – who have been flung into prison for what they have posted on their sites. You can read the full BBC News story and I encourage you all to go to the Committee to Protect Bloggers and download your banner too.

chica 052,
originally uploaded by Darya and Perry.

Come on! She looks like SOMEONE, ie a Feline Filmstar* – but who? I need some help here readers…

*See my Flickr group

I heard the sad news today that pioneer of “gonzo journalism”* Hunter S Thompson was found dead after an apparent suicide at his fortified home. This should not surprise me having just read his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but it does puzzle me. Apparently he held a big superbowl party once which George W Bush attended. That was during old George’s drug daze – alledgedly.

I only just read Fear and Loathing on my return from my first trip to Las Vegas in January. And funnily enough was thinking about him last night whilst watching Sideways for some reason.

Damn shame. Interesting to have been a fly on his wall on 20 January 2005.

*Where a journalist is part of the commentary. Really like an early form of blogging.

Fat cat,
originally uploaded by les2001.

This cat looks like one of those fat old men you see sitting out in the sun drinking in some square somewhere. Could be a Filmstar Feline if anyone has any suggestions.

I just visited Blugg’s Blograffti wall since I mentioned it in my post below. There I found the best penis drawing I have ever seen.* Do a search for penis and see how many others you can find. There will not be one more lovingly penned.

*Note: This is not anything to with my penis obsession, but with the fact that most people when faced with a blank canvas draw genitalia for some reason

banksy kitten,
originally uploaded by Joel Rae.

I love Banksy the graffiti* artist. There was one at the end of the road where we used to live – must go back and take a photo for this great Flickr group.

*If you fancy yourself as a bit of an artist, try the Blograffiti wall

billgrijs,
originally uploaded by talesfromthecrib.

This is another Filmstar Feline – I just can’t think who just yet!

Maybe Goldie Hawn?

Floppy bag,
originally uploaded by Alx.

This is great. Flickr, the online photo uploading, storage and sharing site that is proving hugely popular* with punters armed with picture mobiles and cool digital cameras is encouraging people to share snaps of their bag entrails.

Mine is new, so I might just do one. I carry so much shit, including various shiny things.

*I myself am addicted.

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originally uploaded by °° nyx_ °°.

Catherine Zeta Douglas

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Evita,
originally uploaded by sannikimwhisky.

No – not Evita! SIENNA MILLER!!

I am getting into this now…

Falco,
originally uploaded by sannikimwhisky.

Oh my god. I think I may have started something here – I am obsessed now with trying to find Filmstar Felines – or Movie Meows. It all started with Audrey Hepburn below.

Will anyone actually be interested in that kind of blog? I would be.

Oh – almost forgot to say who this lovely fluffy feline is.

Wait for it…

Ursula Andress.

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it’s my child,
originally uploaded by keepwalking.

And this – STAY AWAY FROM MY KITTEN.

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Ah..Ha..,
originally uploaded by keepwalking.

At least this made me smile… hehe

God I am so bored with work right now. I hate it when I feel that way. Just feel completely unmotivated and a bit left behind career-wise.*

I dunno. Maybe I should do something drastic like pack it all in and fly off to some deserted wilderness to write my books.** Maybe I should give up trying to be the best at what I do and just do the job dull-ly.

Or maybe I should just get pissed, pull myself together and realise that this is probably the “wrong time of the month”.

Cat therapy needed.

*No wonder. I only started a proper career – by accident – after 9 years of academia when I was 27 – that was 5 years ago.
** A long-term vision of mine that involves small insects.