Millions & Billions & Trillions Of Cats

OK, maybe not that many (h/t to the wonderful children's book Millions of Cats), but 79 cats from pop culture, including my favourites Bill the Cat (Ack! Thbbft!), Catbert and Hobbes.

The Field Guide To Famous Felines by Pop Chart Labs (click the link for a larger view)

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Toonces, Look Out!
LOLcat Taxonomy
The Catastic 4

Welcome to the Internet, Please Follow me

Whatever you say, well-armed, unicorn-riding cat. (Jason Heuser)

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Betty White as Slave Leia Wielding a Flaming Chainsaw While Riding a John Ritter Centaur
How Chewbacca Defeated The Nazis And Won World War Two
Wil Wheaton And The Unicorn Kitteh Of Death!

BBC's Sherlock Characters Interrogate Internet Cats

I don't know anything about the BBC show Sherlock, but I do love internet cats, especially when they are all bunched together. Thanks Tumblr, for bringing reapersun to my attention.

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LOLcat Taxonomy

Internet Memes in a Landscape

What OMG Cat Has Seen Cannot Be Unseen

Toonces, Look Out!

A Toonces the Driving Cat mashup with Death Proof? How wonderfully obscure! (Kitteh Proof by Hillary White)

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The Catastic 4

The Ennui of Henri

LOLcat Taxonomy

Teenage Mewtant Ninja Tabbies

Master Splinter didn’t stand a chance against his own Teenage Mewtant Ninja Tabbies. Ashley Culver's entry for the upcoming Autumn Society Shell-Shock Ninja Turtles Show in Philadelphia June 3rd. Radical!

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Heroes In An Art Shell

Hatchling Mutant Ninja Turtles

Youthful, Abnormal, Japanese Assassin Kitchen Appliances

LOLcat Taxonomy

LOLcats have, apparently, grown into their own species. T-shirt scientist Kari Fry breaks down the genus.

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I Can Has History

The Lolfather

Teh Lolcats Theme Song

The Catastic 4

Now you know what the Fantastic Four would look like if they were cats, because obviously you were wondering. The Catastic 4 by pop artist Mike Maihack. (From Topless Robot's The 25 Best and Most Adorable #MRVLCATS)

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What OMG Cat Has Seen Cannot Be Unseen
I Can Has History?
Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Wil Wheaton And The Unicorn Kitteh Of Death!

Sometimes interweb culture gets so convoluted that it takes a serious amount of searching just to understand what is in a picture, let alone trying to explain why. Take, as a random example, above picture of Wil Wheaton riding a winged, unicorn kitten, wearing a clown shirt while fighting author John Scalzi as an orc, by artist Jeff Zugale.

Luckily the why is up to you: "So, here’s the plan: You write a 400 to 2,000 word fanfic about the picture above. Come at it from any angle you like to explain, illuminate or otherwise bring to life what’s going on in the picture above. Our only request is NO slash fanfic (please). But other than that, knock yourself out." (Link via Neatogeek)

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Betty White as Slave Leia Wielding a Flaming Chainsaw While Riding a John Ritter Centaur
They’re Magically Delicious!
Selleck Waterfall Sandwhich

Lost, Re-enacted By Cats

"I'm giving up a respectable career as a spinal surgeon to protect a light from a cloud. Seriously." Meow! (Link via Warming Glow)

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Loved and Lost
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What OMG Cat Has Seen Cannot Be Unseen

I'm pleased to see OMG Cat becoming a meme and I look forward to many more. I was getting sick of that Trolololo guy.

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
I Can Has History?
Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come True

A Clockwork Mice

Cute little mice and bunnies can make scenes of violence and horror seem so damn adorable! These Richard Scarry-esque rodents make Clockwork Orange, Nightmare on Elm Street, Silence of the Lambs and The Exorcist as safe as bedtime stories. I could send my kid to daycare in them, right? (Creepy Critters via FashionablyGeek)

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Reservoir Droogs
Lego Silence Of The Lambs
Won't You Be My Nightmare?

I Can Has History

This is only a small segment of I Can Has History, a ridiculously large LOLcats family tree and includes a couple of my faves, Invisible Sandwich Cat and Invisible Bike Cat. If you know some that are missing, you spend way to much time on the interweb, and I don't say that lightly. (Link via Urlesque)

Update: Seems the server is down or all the sites linking to it crashed it. I mean real sites, not me. I'll check every so often and send out on Twitter if/when it comes back.

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
The LOLFathter
Hungry Cat Iz Eatin Yer Penshun

Play This Meme Off, Keyboard Cat

UPDATE: Threadless has rushed this shirt to print. Now, will I actually wear it?

In the offhand chance you don't waste as much time on the interwebs as I do and haven't seen this mashup of Keyboard Cat and the 3 Wolf Moon t-shirt, consider your mind blown. From Threadless designer Oxen.

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Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come True
Teh Lolcats Theme Song
Here Be Anthropomorphic Dragons

Keyboard Cat: You Make My Dreams Come True

Even though I spend in a inordinate amount of time online, some memes still escape me. This week I was introduced to Keyboard Cat, who plays off people off as they fail, for some reason.

Anyway, this one mashes up some strange Helen Hunt anti-drug after school special and then morphs into a Hall & Oates video. Again, not sure why, but it really doesn't matter. It's just too weird not to share. (Link via Urlesque)

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
You Has No Doubt
All Your Memes Are Belong To Us

Hungry Cat Iz Eatin Yer Penshun

Read more and submit your own at the simply, and obviously named, LOL FAT CATS. Ya, take that bankers. No, wait, stop already!

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Teh Lolcats Theme Song
The Ennui of Henri
The Cat Came Back

Lots of Good Fun That Is Funny

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is 1626 words in length and uses a total vocabulary of 236 words, Theodore Seuss Geisel's response to a 1954 Life article which criticized American school primers as intensely boring, unchallenging to readers and responsible for causing harm to children's literacy. And here it is in a snazzy Wordle word cloud, courtesy of The Journal of Cartoon Over-analyzations. They've created Wordles of four other Seuss classics as well. Check 'em out.

I can't go a night without reading Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, There's a Wocket in My Pocket, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! or One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish as Tristan has become hooked on the good doctor. I love it. (Link via culture kills and The Afterword)

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Word Up
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ABC3D

Teh Lolcats Theme Song

Did the Lolcats need a theme song? Do we need lolcats? Silly question, needs got nothing to do with it! You will want to look away, but you won't be able to. How nobody thought to use The Cure's Lovecats before, I don't know. Robert Smith must be rolling in his grave.

From the twisted minds at rathergood.com. I would have used their embed, but autoplay of this song isn't something that anyone should be subjected to.

Link via Neatorama

The Cat Came Back

The National Film Board of Canada put over 700 films, clips and trailers online last week as a way to mark its 70th anniversary and, frankly, join this century.

The archive is searchable and, even better, the films can be embeded. Cool! So I immediately searched out Cordell Barker's 1998, Oscar-nominated short film, The Cat Came Back.

What a great idea. This should open up a lot of great art to a whole new audience. Bravo, NFB.

The Ennui of Henri

My filtered water tastes impure.My turkey and giblets has begun to taste exactly like my whitefish and tuna in gravy. It's all the same.

French cat existential angst at its arty best.

Link via Cute Overload! and by way of Pam, who's kittie isn't quite as deep a thinker.