Touched by a Feline Angel?

''Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one,'' said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.

Go read the whole thing. What a neat story!

iCats?

Scientists in the Netherlands are endowing a robotic cat with a set of logical rules for emotions. They believe that by introducing emotional variables to the decision-making process, they should be able to create more-natural human and computer interactions.

1. Call me crazy, but the phrase logical rules for emotions strikes me as an oxymoron.
2. That does not look like a cat.
3. I'd rather have interactions with my own very real cat, thank you very much.
   

Tummy Tuesdays

Benjamin also provided this week's photo for Tummy Tuesday:

That's one impressive fluffy tummy!
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For more feline tummy goodness, head on over to LisaViolet's joint.

Take the LOLcat Test!

The Divine Miss Marilyn (a/k/a GRC Galidorn's Marilyn Monrex of Woodsprite) took this test:

Your Score: Cheezburger cat

54% Affectionate, 53% Excitable, 75% Hungry

Sure, you deserve one. You helped popularized lolcats from a running gag to an online sensation. Now mainstream media writes asinine columns on this 'phenomenon', students write theses on the topic, programming languages adopt the grammar, and losers write tests about them on dating sites. Now take your cheezburger and never touch the internets again.

To see all possible results, checka dis.

Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

She waives politely to SFP at Pages Turned.