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Pet owners know that caring for an animal brings a new world of experiences. Some pets are affectionate and some are snarky, but only cats are consistently both. Between acrobatics, midnight cuddle attacks, and massive attitude problems, cats have managed to completely capture our attention. A mix of endearing and annoying habits, the following 20 situations are ones every cat owner can appreciate. 

1. Sunbeams Are Magic

Don’t even think about ruining the magic!

2. The Joy of Kittens

No one appreciates the heart-warming joy that comes from playing with kittens quite like cat people. Whether it’s their pint-sized ferocity or surprisingly razor-sharp claws, cat owners know that cute power is strongest in a pile of kittens. 

3. The Look of Pure Patience

Any cat owner with more than one pet knows that cats are the most patient animals on the planet.

4. Sharing Your Desk

When you’re a cat owner, keeping your desk to yourself is virtually impossible. Warm laptops or keyboards are cat magnets, no matter how many times we shoo them off. Even if your desk holds nothing more than notebooks and pens, cats are determined to prove that your space is their space. Luckily, the internet brought us the desk/cat box hack, or else cat owners would be perpetually at war between productivity and cat snuggles. 

5. Preferring Cats to People

Cats never complain, leave you, seriously impede on your space, or need an explanation. What’s not to love?

6. Wishing You Could Take Your Cat Anywhere

Unlike dogs, cats take a lot of coercion to go anywhere. So much so that a cat willing to take a walk is likely a sign you’ve finally achieved full nirvana.

7. Cats Are the Boss

It’s so sweet of you humans to buy me a cat scooter. Now just get rid of the dog.

8. Cats Are Too Smart for Their Own Good

Anyone who has ever nearly died laughing while watching a cat furiously trying to figure out a mirror knows all about this.

9. Being Your Pet’s Servant

Just like cats see our space as theirs, our time is theirs as well. You could be cooking, gardening, or getting ready, but when your cat decides it’s time for attention, almost nothing can dissuade them. Cat owners know that when it’s time for your cat, you’re better off listening. 

10. Kitty Cat Eyes Are More Powerful Than Puppy Dog Eyes

Resistance is useless!

11. Random Acts of Snuggles

When your cat is in the mood, cat owners can expect aggressive cat cuddles. Just don’t try and snuggle when it’s time to hunt.

12. Midnight Wake Ups

Much like your cat deciding your daytime schedule, cats are happy to decide your sleep schedule too. Cat owners are all too familiar with waking up in the middle of the night to cat paws batting at their ears. It seems that time is not a factor for cats, and us owners can just get over it. 

13. Tiny Cat Paws

This one’s self-explanatory. Every cat owner’s been caught swooning over these little foot pads.

14. You’re Really Just Furniture

Nothing summarizes being a cat person quite like feeling like you’re part of the furniture. Despite (sometimes) craving your attention, cats are also pleased to lounge all over you. Cat owners understand this best, and are fast to change hats between being an owner and a cat couch. 

15. Cats Are Part Liquid Grace, Part Idiot

Yah, I meant to do that.

16. Cat Toys Aren’t Impressive

Another experience cat owners know too well is the untouched pile of cat toys you just brought home. Cats are notoriously picky, so cat toys we humans like don’t always interest our furry friends. Every cat owner can commiserate over the mound of unused, bright, fluffy toys in the corner. 

17. Your Furniture Is Impressive

On the other hand, every cat person knows that cats will decide what is a toy. Couches, chairs, beds, and virtually anything else that can be scratched, were clearly purchased just for your cat. Despite notches and sawdust at the corners of all of our furniture, we still don’t get mad. Just as integral to cat ownership as watching your furniture melt away, is getting sucked in by those wide, round kitty eyes. 

18. Pure Paper Bag Excitement

When you’re tired of buying toys your cat doesn’t respond to, every cat owner has offered their prized cat a paper bag to play in. Second only to catnip, paper bags drive cats crazy. Who knows if it’s the crunching, the movement, or the built-in ability to hide, nothing is more at home to a cat owner than the sounds of your kitty destroying a paper bag. Such a simple toy brings cats so much joy, and cat owners find themselves jealous of such simple happiness. 

19. Lasers Are Everything

Learning about science fiction laser weapons as a kid is immediately followed by disappointment when you learn the comparatively limited capacities of real world lasers. However, all of this is pain is made up for the first time you show a laser to your cat. Instantly ecstatic, cats go together with lasers better than peanut butter and jelly. There’s nothing like watching your cat cartwheel around the room chasing a laser pointer to remind us cat owners that there’s really something exciting about this bit of technology. 

20. Your Keyboard Is Sacred

Much like trying (and failing) to keep your cat off of your desk, keeping your keyboard clear is nearly impossible when you’re a cat owner. Like letting a toddler free in a candy store, turning your back for even one minute results in disaster. A cat will seize absolutely any opportunity to slip under your working hands and take a snooze. If you’ve ever swept hair balls out from between your keys, you might be a cat owner. 

Featured photo credit: Dramatic kitten/Gabriel Rodríguez via flickr.com

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Quando a gente é criança pensamos um monte de coisas totalmente diferente dos adultos. Por exemplo, quando começava o saudoso jogo FIFA 98 no Playstation eu achava que o locutor falava ‘EA Sports, Tudo Game!’ quando na verdade é ‘It’s in the game’. Algumas dessas pérolas infantis estão no Tumblr “Coisas que eu achava quando […]

As a new entrepreneur, you can and should learn from the mistakes of others.

 Adobe has ramped up its mobile efforts in a big way today at its annual Adobe Max conference, with seven new mobile apps unveiled (though two are repurposed versions of older software). The new collection in some ways represents the same kind of unbundling of individual features as apps we’ve seen from companies like Facebook, with tools specific to different kinds of artists and… Read More

Women entrepreneurs are demonstrating innovation, creativity, and economic value … so much so that even men are impressed.

Here’s a cute little video that shows what happened when As Goprod set up a camera next to the next of an owl family. After the mother flies away, the little baby owls come out to investigate the mysterious object that showed up out of nowhere.

You can almost see the gears spinning in the owls’ heads as they try to determine whether the camera is friend, foe, or food:

(via Laughing Squid)

Recipe For Fun:

1) Buy a GoPro Camera.

2) Head out to the backyard with a bunch of crazed Doxie Pups.

3) Goad ‘em into chasing you around while you stick the camera in their face.

4) Upload the video to YouTube so Mashable can run it and Cute Overload can, uh, borrow it.

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“Jennifer W. sent us the following email (and the great photos, natch:) “These are my adorable ResQte tuxedo twins Ivy and Jackson. They were feral orphans rescued from the street when they were a few months old. Since they missed the short window for socialization as babies, they remained semi-feral and terrified of humans when I met them a few months later as a new volunteer at their shelter. I managed to draw them out of hiding to play with the toys I brought with me, and slowly they started to trust me.”

“Soon I had fallen in love with these timid sweethearts and knew I had to adopt them. They have settled in beautifully, spending their days playing, snoozing, snuggling, and bird-watching. This brother-sister duo is the best of friends! I would be thrilled if you shared them on Cute Overload!”

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On Saturday, actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson stood in front of a large crowd at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and proudly declared herself a feminist. Kicking off her new UN-led campaign, “HeForShe,” the goal of which is to encourage men to fight for gender equality with women, Watson said, “I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word.”

Historically, the F word hasn’t been particularly popular in Watson’s industry. One of the most dreaded questions a reporter can ask a young actress — along with “Who are you dating?” — is whether or not she’s a feminist. For years, famous women expertly eluded the label. Sarah Jessica Parker and Madonna have claimed they were humanists rather than feminists. Katy Perry has said she believes in the power of women but nevertheless would not use the label. Lana Del Rey thought the topic wasn’t interesting enough. Even free-spirited, clay-eating Shailene Woodley shunned the word, claiming she wasn’t a feminist because she “loved men.” Signaling a new attitude toward the word, Watson made the case that feminism is not about being anti-men, reminding her audience of the term’s actual definition: “It is the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.” Watson’s speech comes on the heels of a handful of other powerful women in entertainment ditching the taboo. Here are a few recent examples.

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I think it’s apparent that these smiles are contagious!

 

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Among nature’s miracles we find the leukocytes, or white blood cells. These form the backbone of the immune system, fighting off invaders such as diseases and Visigoths. In this simulation, a cluster of styrophilli cells rally to subdue felinus lazii, which is a strain of parasite.

Via Sean McGrath.

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Look out the window
See the big beautiful world
You want to explore

Reddit.

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Sully the Saint Bernard loves his hoomin. He REALLY does. And to prove it, he’s gonna smother him with slobber.

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Pepper. Southern Boobook.

Trinity. Brown Goshawk.

Bob. Long-Billed Corella.

Jarra. Cockatiel.

Yule. Barking Owl.

Neville. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo.

Seisa. Palm Cockatoo.

Penguin. Magpie. (She’s not dead, just goofing off!)

To say photographer Leila Jeffreys had an eclectic upbringing would be a bit of an understatement. With a mother from India and a father from the Isle of Man, she has lived in Papua New Guinea, a house boat in Kashmir despite an ongoing war, and in an Indian village surrounded by buffaloes, mongoose, and monkeys.

As a child, Jeffreys was taught by her father to rescue and nurse birds back to health, an experience that resulted in a deep understanding of wildlife that is immediately apparent when viewing her spectacular portraits of birds. Her affectionate photographs of owls, eagles, cockatiels and budgies seem to capture the essence of each animal’s personality, portraying many of them with surprisingly human characteristics.

Jeffreys now lives in Sydney and recently completed work on her latest series of predatory birds titled Prey. She just opened an exhibition at Olsen Irwin Gallery that runs through September 28, and you can also see a collection of her cockatiel photos later this year at Purdy Hicks Gallery in London. Do yourself a favor and follow her on Instagram.

“Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time.”

“The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism,” Haruki Murakami reflected on the power of a daily routine. “Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue,” Mary Oliver wrote about the secret of great poetry, adding: “When it does, it grows sweeter.” But nowhere does rhythmic repetition mesmerize us more powerfully than in music, with its singular way of enchanting the brain.

How and why this happens is precisely what cognitive scientist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas, explores in On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind (public library). This illuminating short animation from TED Ed, based on Margulis’s work, explains the psychology of the “mere exposure effect,” which makes things grow sweeter simply as they become familiar — a parallel manifestation of the same psychological phenomenon that causes us to rate familiar statements as more likely to be true than unfamiliar ones.

Margulis writes:

Music takes place in time, but repetition beguilingly makes it knowable in the way of something outside of time. It enables us to “look” at a passage as a whole, even while it’s progressing moment by moment. But this changed perspective brought by repetition doesn’t feel like holding a score and looking at a passage’s notation as it progresses. Rather, it feels like a different way of inhabiting a passage — a different kind of orientation.

In On Repeat, a fine addition to these essential books on the psychology of music, Margulis goes on to explore how advances in cognitive science have radically changed our understanding of just why repetition is so psychoemotionally enticing.

HT Open Culture

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This pug has a rough life.

 

Practically speaking, no matter how well-prepared students are to perform academically, seldom are they prepared to address the central question of life purpose.

Rafael Mantesso‘s dog, an adorable bull terrier named Jimmy Choo, is taking the Internet by storm today after Mantesso’s creative Instagram photos of Jimmy caught the attention of the world at large.

An artist and editor, Mantesso draws, dresses and otherwise inserts an unbelievably cooperative Jimmy into countless fun adventures on his Instagram account — from a screaming vocal performance, to a day spent with troublemaking cartoon duo Calvin and Hobbes.

Mantesso tells us that these photographs and the viral fame that followed all started with a divorce.

“My ex-wife took all the furniture in the house and the house was completely empty and white,” he said. “The only thing I had was the jimmy and a complement and empty white house.” And so, he decided to take this picture:

It was just an image of the two ‘holding hands,’ symbolizing the friendship they had, but this photo birthed another, and then another, and before long Mantesso was creating them almost every day.

Enlisting his drawing and painting skills to create the backgrounds, Mantesso then uses his iPhone to shoot the images and VSCOCam to edit them. What comes out the other end are images that many of us just can’t help smiling at:

For Mantesso, the best part of the press attention is the positive image he hopes these photos create for bully breeds.

I always dreamed of having a bull terrier. I think they’re an amazing race in terms of behavior, personality, the love they demonstrate to their owners and especially the aesthetics of them.

Jimmy will be 5 years old on December 29, and he’s definitely my best friend and companion. I hate it when people turn away or cross the street for fear of him, people think the bull terrier/pit bull dogs are murderers and bloodthirsty.

That, he maintains, just isn’t the case. And if these cute pictures of Jimmy eating with Lady from Lady and the Tramp or giving out free hugs will help change that perception, all the better.

To keep up with Jimmy as he continues to go on his wild adventures, be sure to give Mantesso’s Instagram account a follow by clicking here.

(via Boing Boing)

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Image credits: Photographs by Rafael Mantesso and used with permission

I don’t think this one needs a caption.

 

The ultimate playlist for family road trips

Photo credit: mrbula via photopin cc

Following on rather neatly from our last article which contained 32 tips to help you actually enjoy a family road trip as opposed to simply survive it, in this post we’re sharing 32 of our favourite songs to listen to on the open road.

Now if you read the tips you’ll know that audiobooks are actually our favourite accompaniment but it’s not easy to find something that appeals to everyone in the car. Okay, Harry Potter is a good place to start once the kids are old enough to appreciate his wizarding ways but the toddlers aren’t going to get much out of it. And let’s face it, sometimes you just want a soundtrack to daydream to as the road winds on. While keeping your eyes on the road and your hands firmly on the wheel if you’re the driver, of course

That’s where music comes in. The easiest way these days is to build a playlist on Spotify and connect your phone to the in-car audio system – as long as you have a newish vehicle (and phone). Or you can put a CD together, or even a cassette. Hey, we actually have a MiniDisc player in one of our cars, so anything goes!

However you put it together, this road trip soundtrack has something for everyone but in true Grown-up Travel Guide style some of the entries are a little tongue-in-cheek and appeal mostly to our slightly warped sense of fun.

It’s true that many of these classics bring to mind enormous motorbikes and gas-guzzling monsters rather than today’s fuel efficient cars and electric vehicles, but driving is driving.

In any case, I’ve included enough so that you should at least be able to find enough enjoyment even if you only cherry-pick from the selection here. If not, then you have questionable taste

There’s no particular order (or logic?) to the selection and the only rule I adhered to was to have one track per artist. And I even kind of bent that one if you look closely…

Happy driving folks

1. Just like paradise – David Lee Roth
2. Life in the fast lane – Eagles
3. Burn – Deep Purple
4. Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers
5. On the road again – Willie Nelson
6. Sweet home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd
7. No Sleep til Brooklyn – The Beastie Boys
8. Ace of Spades – Motorhead
9. Mama I’m coming home – Ozzy Osbourne
10. I’m gonna be (500 miles) – The Proclaimers
11. Free fallin’ – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
12. Panama – Van Halen
13. Walking on sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
14. Livin’ on a prayer – Bon Jovi
15. Here I go again (the original blues version, not the 1980s hair rock version) – Whitesnake
16. Born to run – Bruce Springsteen
17. Roam – The B52s
18. Highway to hell – AC/DC
19. Baba O’Riley – The Who
20. Passenger – Iggy Pop
21. Fast car – Tracy Chapman
22. Driving south – Jimi Hendrix
23. Helter skelter – The Beatles
24. California dreamin’ – The Mamas and the Papas
25. Born to be wild – Steppenwolf
26. Don’t stop believin’ – Journey
27. American pie – Don McLean
28. Rockin’ in the free world – Neil Young
29. La Grange – ZZ Top
30. 303 – Kula Shaker
31. Harder than you think – Public Enemy
32. Rocks – Primal Scream

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GAAAAAAA! WANT! (Composes self.)

Bookmark this post, folks. There’s a Maxi-Me sequel coming up on October 31st. When you see it, you’ll know why. “I am submitting 2 pics of my adorable 2.5-year-old Kobe, a male British longhair cat. I hope you will consider Kobe for Cute Overload. You make my day every day!” -Iris W.

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Nada mais que normal uma campanha de uma marca de ração para gatos contar com gatinhos no vídeo. Mas dessa vez a Whiskas fez diferente e foi atrás de um gato famoso na internet brasileira: o Gato Chico, famoso pela página Cansei de ser Gato.

No vídeo da ação, que foi desenvolvida pela Social Agency, Chico é mostrado em seu momento de “trabalho”, que é quando ele se fantasia para as fotos que dão origem aos posts na página. Mas mostra também que Chico é como qualquer outro gato e não resiste quando vê comida pela frente.

Confira abaixo o vídeo da ação “Cansei de NÃO ser gato”:

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