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Last night the Prince of Darkness entered my furry idiots and directed them to chew up and devour half a corn cob. Not the kernels; just the hard, fibrous part in the centre. The resulting indigestible matter sat in their little tummy-tum-tums until this morning, when, as usual, they wolfed down their breakfasts like starving cats and then threw up on every inch of the house.

x-posted to my_cat_is_satan

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Frank threw up so much, he broke his meow.

Random crud

Jon and Kate's lived summarised in a single cartoon. Another cartoon tells of the life I would like to lead. And a third illustrates the truth of the Interwebs.

You know you're Australian if...

Plush toy K9 (Is it actually "plush" if they're not furry? Or does "plush" refer to the squeeziness?)

More parody Choose Your Own Adventure icons

A cruel but not wholly inaccurate summary of Voyage of the Damned. "By the way, I totally mentioned Kasterborous."

GAH

A Boston terrier

Another Boston terrier

64 cute animal icons

Texas fights to maintain its sex toy prohibition

Sex

Study Debunks Bisexual Myth: it's not a phase, folks. (You can download the actual article from Developmental Psychology, Female Bisexuality From Adolescence to Adulthood, as a PDF).

Sex is for joy, not for judgment: interview with Emily Maguire, author of Princesses and Pornstars. "Maguire is deeply critical of the idea women should be defined by their gender or their sexuality and is scathing of the relentless public shaming of women who enjoy sex." Eva Cox, also interviewed, adds an insightful comment at which anti-racists will nod their heads: "She says part of the problem for women is that all the visible signs of discrimination against have been removed, leaving behind the insidious, invisible forms of cultural discrimination."

Richard Hammond holding a puppy

ETA: John Barrowman holding a puppy

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"This discussion may seem too abstract and 'reasonable' to say something useful about a society that had hundreds of gods and expended a great part of its resources on building temples, providing for the cult, and performing other religious actions (not that such actions are any more irrational than many features of modern society)... For the Westerner, problems in comprehending the alien and the rationality of religious practices may be posed most acutely by magic. Magic and rationality do not conflict: magic is rational, and its argumentation is often rationalistic. Magical spells and performances exploit many methods of inference and arguments from analogy that have strong logical coherence. These procedures and arguments differ from Western rationality less in their organization and formal properties than in their premises, which often assume different agents and modes of causation from those commonly accepted in the West."

Baines, John. "Society, Morality and Religious Practice". in Shafer, Byron E. (ed). Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 1991.

MOAR INTERNETS

Flying cat

G'way, kid, y'bother me

Fantastic 1912 poster advertising "The Suffragette".

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"There are lambs being born - I saw some on my bus ride home, the other day. They were gambolling. This morning I saw no lambs, so maybe I imagined it or they were sheep and further away then it seemed, or just very damped down. Some of the sheep this morning were sitting down in a tired sort of way. We went past too quickly for me to see if there were any daddy sheep walking up and down nearby, smoking, and trying to get through to Mothercare to reserve something that wasn't pink or blue."

- dinosaurcostume, here.