Iz CATURDAY AGAIN!!

Hallooooo! iz caturday nao??

Wutz outside?

wut R U doing down dere?

Hai. I haz a half pipe.

Prepare to LAUNCH!!!

TAKE OFF!!!

silly Ripley

Poor behbeh kitteh

I wuz thinking this morning about what Ripley's kittenz might have looked like. Funny, stumpy little pink nosed balls of fur, most likely.

Cows Found in Outer Space

This is excellent news, since I like to have a nice steak after a long space voyage.

Methane Detected on Distant Planet for First Time

Methane has been detected in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, the first time that an organic molecule has been found on a distant world.

Studies of this carbon-bearing compound could shed light on the planet's formation and evolution.

The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a so-called hot Jupiter, a gas giant similar to Jupiter that orbits very close to its parent star.

The far-flung world, discovered in 2005, is 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula.

In 2007 astronomers detected signs of water on HD 189733b using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Now, using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water and also detected methane.

Planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, are so far away that scientists can't obtain images clear enough to separate the planet from its star.

So to study HD 189733b, the team used an instrument aboard Hubble called a spectrometer, which breaks up light passing through a planet's atmosphere into different bands.

"The big news is that this is the first detection of an organic in an exoplanet atmosphere," said lead study author Mark Swain, a researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology.

The study appears in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

Mmmmmm.... space cows.....

Planet Earth

Yes, that's here, but I'd like to imagine it's a photograph of a beautiful, far-off planet and that I am there, far away from the nonsense on this rock.

From NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

U comes home nao... play fetch

She is so BUSY lately. Photo is high resolution.

5th Anniversary

This isn't very plushy, but today is a grim anniversary. The link below is to a Reuters mulitmedia story on the war:

Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War

I can't believe it's been five years.

Grrrr.

hat tip: res ipsa loquitur

WHAAAA????

We needs us one of dese... do they make a milk ring version?

(that puppeh is hazzing 2 muches fun)

oh, hai!

U can't be mad at me... cuz I luvs U!!

I iz still a fluffee little angel. (snort)

Okay, Maddie iz out of the, ahem, doghouse. Everyone can scritch her ears nao.

Photos R high resolution (I spoilz U), click for all teh scritchable kitteh goodness.

Baffff, UR doing it WRONG!!

Dis kitteh haz a flavr!

I iz an angel!!

look how quietly I B sleepies...

I NEVAH wakes up mah centaur 20 times a night!

Bad kitteh!!

Yes, you.

Waking UR centaur up all night long. Not good.

Wild plushy kittehs!

AP/Firdia Lisnawati

AP/George Nikitin

AP Photo

Baby kittehs of any variety are darned cute.

I SMITES U!!

That Ripley, smiting trollz again.

Good kitteh!!

Oldies but goodies

I never, ever get tired of these pictures, because they illustrate the daily life in the four legs household. Fizziks!!

Cute cat theory

Okay, this little bit of geekdom cracked me up. The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism.

Our Maxx

Iz almost time for teh peep wars to start up again. YAY!!

I borrowed a kitten

oh hai, I iz a kitteh theef.

Tea Party

Stolen from one of my favorite websites, Dark Roasted Blend

hat tip to Phil of the Nudibranches.

Random kittenz 4 U

Cause I iz busy werking. kai thx bai

Oh, hai....

... U home? okay, I poop nao.

kai thx

Pitchfork post alert

James Moore, the biographer of Karl Rove, has something to say about the democratic primary and Hillary Clinton.

Over at Got Pitchfork?

Halloooo???

Separated at birth? U decide.

200,000

Sometime in the past 15 minutes this blog reached 200,000 hits. YAY! Thank you to everyone, and especially to my foreign visitors. We have plushiots in Denmark, France, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, India, Finland, England, Germany... and other exotic locales.

The appeal of plush appears to be universal. A huge thank you to all of you.

kai, thx, bai!

GIGANTASAURUS!!!

No, iz just a kitteh. doan be skaird

I iz beeg kitteh 2

(no, sweetie, U R just fluffeee kitteh)

Escape

It tries to escapes.

Halp! mah ruff is tries to eatted me!!

Spells

It's levee-OH-sar.

Sheesh, get the spell right.

Sundae nite

White fichus 4 everyone!!

Tabby domination

Doan mess wit a tabby. Just saying.

lol

Why look! iz a milkring just 4 me!

It haz a flvr

Iz Ripleeee Chainsaw Massacre's turn

Up URS McBush. N up URS Hillary 2. U bin on mah teevee screeching at me an hurtin mah kitteh ears.

Wut? waz dat rude?

(bathe bathe bathe) U gits ovah it.

kai thx bai!!

Cutest kittehs on teh intertubes

I haz a milk ring

U throw it agin nao. Kai nao wud B guud. I'ze sTiL waits. kai nao plze. (yes, she always looks like this)

Hallooooo!!

U noes we iz teh cutest, rite? U noes iz tru