The Power of Cats.

Just to prove I'm not all driveling hate and disdain, I will write today about the mystical charm and power of internet cats. Yes, just about anything can be made better with cats (partly why I've made them a topic on the blog).

Oh look, a caption! I figured out how Kyle. :)

It's interesting that cats are so universally appealing and they have been throughout the ages. The example we all know about is the Egyptians worshiping them because they protected the Nile crops from rats and vermin, eventually leading the Goddess Bast being depicted as a Cat (or at least a rather unfortunate humanoid born with a cat head). Recently it's been discovered they were valued as pets over 9000 years before that in Cyprus. Pretty kiff, but I'm obviously not here to discuss history. Let's talk about the modern cat.

If the internet were a country, the sacred animal would be the cat. Try this yourself, go to Google and search images and type anything and cat. Chances are you'll find some sort of humorous picture with a cat in it. Cats are good for viral videos and anyone from your grandma to your parole officer is likely to link it to you in a chain e-mail. When the internet was still young and pubescent (who am I kidding, it's still pubescent), a little place called 4chan ran caturdays, which morphed into lolcats and has held staying power ever since. Try to pretend you've never heard of lolcats before...impossible right?

We know that cats are intertwined with the fate of the internet (ironically since the urban legend goes God kills a kitten everytime you masturbate and what is the internet most used for...statistically?). Can we measure the power of a cat? 48,478,784 million people watched a particular cat video on YouTube which is close to the total population of South Africa. Think about that for second, the entire population of South Africa took 4 minutes off to watch a bunch of felines slipping on tiles and chasing lazers. Humans have come a long way in such a short time. If there is one thing I'm thankful for however is that cats can't run for president, do mechanical car work or become lawyers. I think the human race as a collective would be tossed about like a cotton ball.

Shrien Dewani's new PR manager was almost too effective

I think today's post made some real ground breaking progress and wasn't pointless at all. What do you think? Love cats? Love pointless? Love pointless cat blogs? I leave you with a old favorite, all credit for it goes to my good friend Mr.Graham. Two cheers for fluff pieces.