This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Great article. I think FB is about to destroy it´s service because they couldn´t buy twitter. Instead of accepting that there is room for two great services on the Internet, they are now on a steady course to destroy one service. In the war between FB and Twitter, there is room for new great services to grow. Maybe Friendfeed will be that service?
- Frode Stenstrøm
exactly Frode, it seems as if Facebook are trying to be everything to everyone...which could easily be its eventual downfall.
- Zee.
Seems FB´s trying to be an internet on the internet. Why would I want to do everything on one service and under one domain when the web is more and more connected (in an open manner) ?
- Thomas Bøhm
I believe that's their strategy. For many people it makes negotiating the Internet simpler. Most people aren't tech geeks like us!
- Gregg Scott
They have a classic strategy that is bound to fail. Companies start small and focued. (Anyone remember what FB´s strategy was at the start? :) ) then they grow and expand. In search of new revenue streams they broaden and loose focus. They become a general service instead of a pioneer and leave room for new companies to grow. Anyone remember what almost happened to IBM? How about Coca Cola?
- Frode Stenstrøm
I'd been thinking this before FB announced any of this. I wrote Tremendous Tiwtter Ideas posts Part 1- http://twurl.nl/cpoj8w and Part -2 - http://twurl.nl/6g6yog that I hope @ev and @biz see. I think there's far more to Twitter than we're all really seeing. FB is extending the walls of the walled garden.
- Ken Camp
Facebook reminds me of another big name that tried to expand and morph beyond its original offering. I'm talking about Yahoo!. Yahoo! went from the biggest name on the web (in search and in portal technology) to an also-ran in so many technologies. And this happened for many reasons - not least of which was the dilution of their original vision. Is Facebook intentionally trying to repeat the errors of Yahoo!?
- Lorin Olsen
Such need for expantion is often based on the difficulty in saying no to a good idea.
- Frode Stenstrøm
I seriously doubt any of their users (besides us geeks) have asked for the ability to access Facebook outside of Facebook.
- Daniel Sims
Great article and I think your right, a lot of Facebook users are not tech savy they use Facebook to communicate with their family and college friends and don't necessarily want everyone in the world to know of the communication. I can picture trouble in the future.
- Kim Landwehr
Has anyone checked out Facebook's new friend pages? It looks like they're trying to become Friendfeed as well. I happen to like the more Twitter-like layout personally, but the Friendfeed look for the Friend pages feels all wrong....
- Kristine Lowe
"Whether you are part of the 80s generation or just old enough to watch TV, it is likely that movie offerings in 2009 will bring out the diehard fan in you. Expect confident tributes to your favorite comics, Japanese animations, cult movies and books."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
lol. That scene is classic. Did you see the Family Guy where they parodied it? And now that you mention it, I can totally hear the music in my head still from the last time I watched it years ago.
- Araceli
If you need a smile, here's a photo of Echo using my tripod as part of her furniture. She will often lay down with her rear on the tripod and her front half on the arm of the chair (or the other way around, depending on her mood). One of these days I'll catch her sitting on the tripod proper...
Echo was a rescue kitten: found in the middle of the road in the middle of the night at 4 wks old. She's very petite, about 6.5 lbs, and very active for a 9 yr old. Right now she's lying halfway on my keyboard trying to butt surf away from FF...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Nicholas, you're right, they could be twins =D I'll point out that the door behind her has a keyed deadbolt instead of a standard knob deadbolt on the inside, and this is intentional (along with us having door knobs instead of handles): she's let herself out of the house in one place I've lived. To smart for her own good...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Haha cats will find anything to step on to get somewhere. My sister's cat uses the valance in her kitchen window to step across from one cabinet top to another. She is waiting for the day it comes crashing down.
- Doug
Doug, my cats make a point to get from pointA to pointB without touching the floor if at all possible. I'm pretty sure they have an organized game with rules that involve extra points for landing on my laptop keyboard...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
looks like a slightly smaller version of my Luna
- Kamilah Gill
"What a difference a year makes. Only last November, Iceland's status as one of the most successful economies in the West was underlined when it was judged the best place to live in the world."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Didn't this same thing happen to Japan after they tried to buy up everything in America? What do you suppose is going on in China right now?
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Interesting article. The fact that Iceland, with its tiny population and its rather not-much-diversified economy, relied much on financial markets and other non-manufacturing industries is a reason of a quick meltdown of its accumulated wealth. This kind of thing was bound to happen to any such country. This is the real feat of globalization, showing how bunch of bankers or speculators can bring an entire economy to its knees, something that would not be possible in the recent past.
- Hayk H.
I just subscribed to Glenn Slaven because he called Hao a "prat" on his "what's wrong with this pic" thread - in other news: someone is going to ask me what the hell a "prat" is when I call them one tomorrow
Who me? ......ok fine, I edited /confession
- Mona Nomura
Oh, and thanks Mona. :) @Nick actually it's originally more rude than that: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... but 'round here it just means someone who's done something you don't like
- Glenn Slaven
You missed an 'n' didn't you Mona :)
- Glenn Slaven
I have a love/hate relationship with comment editing. Mona, thanks for fessing up so I didn't look so much like an idiot :)
- Michael C. Harris
@Glenn caught out again by wikipedia, same meaning here on the other side of the country .au. Prat = fool or idiot not bottom. I was thinking sprat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....
- Nick Cowie
lol this thread took a very bizarre turn somewhere in the middle - @glenn - thanks for providing me a great new name to call people!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
PLUS poor Glenn in the "like" is sandwiched between a buncha M's! btw, digressive tendencies FTW :)
- Mona Nomura
Yeah Glenn, the cult of the M has you now. *laughs madly*
- Mo Kargas