الثلاثاء، 28 يوليو 2015

Velocity Alert: One photographer's unprecedented access to the Dot-Com Boom

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One photographer's unprecedented access to the Dot-Com Boom

Photographer Doug Menuez chronicled the giants of Silicon Valley during the late '80s and '90s.

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Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

That's One Way to Stay Cool
This Puppy Just Can't Quite Get the Hang of Howling
Stay Still and Maybe It'll Just Go Away
Hitchhiker of the Day: Cats Ride Black Rhinos in South Africa
Modeling the Latest in Cat Fashion
Watch Tiny Puppies Dream in This Delightfully Relaxing Video
What Does This Do?
Either This Cat Can't Wait to Go for a Walk or This Dog Has a Very Convincing Cat Costume
Nothing Is Quite as Comforting as a Sighing Cloud Settling Down for a Nap
Watch This Baby Black Jaguar Learn to Swim
Maybe There's a Reason Dogs Seem so Excited for Dinner?
How Dare You, I Just Got Out of the Shower!

That's One Way to Stay Cool

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 01:00 PM PDT

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Tagged: cute , Cats , Video

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This Puppy Just Can't Quite Get the Hang of Howling

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:00 PM PDT

Submitted by: (via For the Love of Boxers)

Tagged: dogs , funny , Video

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Stay Still and Maybe It'll Just Go Away

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 11:00 AM PDT

This is taking a long time... can you hurry up?

Submitted by: (via かご猫Ｂｌｏｇ)

Tagged: snails , cute , Cats , Video

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Hitchhiker of the Day: Cats Ride Black Rhinos in South Africa

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 10:00 AM PDT

South Africa catches cats riding rhinosaurus

In South Africa, cats are just hopping on rhinos for the ride.

Check out this, probably very rude, kitty letting the rare black rhinoceros do all the work:

OK, OK, it's not exactly a cat. Rather, it's an animal called a genet. Genets are merely cat-like animals that are actually more closely related to mongooses.

But they look a lot like cats!

National Geographic gives an expert opinion of just what in the hell that ~~cat~~ genet is doing up there:

Craig Sholley, wildlife biologist and vice president of the African Wildlife Foundation, says genets likely jump on big herbivores to search for food.

For one, the genet eats insects that the rhino stirs up from the grass, the same technique cattle egrets use on grazing mammals. Sholley says it's also possible the nocturnal genet was searching for ticks that latch onto rhinos and buffaloes.

The rhino also offers the nocturnal, tree-dwelling animal a vantage point from which to scan for their prey, which includes anything from a dung beetle to a baby antelope.

Perching on a large, slow-moving animal could be a great hunting technique—until that animal-turned-lookout gets fed up.

Yeah, either that, or genets just have places to be and Uber hasn't rolled out to South Africa yet.

Submitted by: (via Wildlife ACT)

Tagged: rhino , genet , hitchhiking , Cats

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Modeling the Latest in Cat Fashion

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:00 AM PDT