Night kittehs

Dis feather is menacing me. Maik it stop!

Dis peep not made of marshmallow, oh noes!

Monday kittens

Some baby pictures to tide you over while I work today.

Happy Birthday Steve!!

It's Steve Simel's birthday (he's 27), and he can haz cake that Ripley made him.

Make a wingnut cry....

Buy Krugman's new book: The Conscience of a Liberal

Iz caturday agin todai

Those gurlz be hanging....

(high res photos, click on them to see all the up close plushy details)

A tale of two tails

When little sisters attack.

Much hissing and growling ensued....

(high res photo)

Iz Friday! come home!!

Come home I wants to play fetch, plz! kai thx bai

Huwwy up!!!

Riplleeeeeeeee!!

Iz not mah best side.

Ack! nao U maek me look like beeetched hedgehog! oh noes!

Rly, iz just mah fluffinesss.

Dere, much better- nao I look glamourous agin.

MOAR ZOEY!!!! she gets prezzies...

Ripley and Maddie were so upset that Zoey's been feeling bad, so they sent her some fun stuff to make her feel better.

Pirate Kitteh!!

Our favorite pirate girl Zoey.

Oh, noes! monster BLACK HOLE!!

Okay, this is actually pretty cool: Monster Black Hole Busts Theory. And then eats Cincinnatti.

A stellar black hole much more massive than theory predicts is possible has astronomers puzzled.

Stellar black holes form when stars with masses around 20 times that of the sun collapse under the weight of their own gravity at the ends of their lives. Most stellar black holes weigh in at around 10 solar masses when the smoke blows away, and computer models of star evolution have difficulty producing black holes more massive than this.

The newly weighed black hole is 16 solar masses. It orbits a companion star in the spiral galaxy Messier 33, located 2.7 million light-years from Earth. Together they make up the system known as M33 X-7.

"We're having trouble using standard theories to explain this system because it is so massive," study team member Jerome Orosz of the University of California, San Diego, told SPACE.com.

The black hole in M33 X-7 is also the most distant stellar black hole ever observed. The findings, detailed in the Oct. 17 issue of the journal Nature, could help improve formation models of "binary" systems containing a black hole and a star. It could also help explain one of the brightest star explosions ever observed.

Fascinating stuff.

Goes to show you that we just don't know everything about the universe yet. Nevermind what goes on in other universes. From our friends at Space.com.

We iz hanging

I iz a kitteh puddle.

U can say "awwww" nao.

New kittehs

Wut? I'ze napping.

Nao U scritch mah ears.

I iz pirate. U beware.

Nao U admire mah fluffy tummeee.

Hallooooooo!!

Does dis partikal celerator maek me look fat?

Halloooooo!!

Up URS chimpy!!

I haz mousies.

Nao I go sleepies.

Kittenzzzzz

Wut U looking at?

Yes, I know you all have been suffering from kitteh deprivation, but this centaur haz werk obligashuns dis week. All dun nao, you can has kittehs again.

Memorial Maxx Blogging

Bestest boy evah.

It's Kenosha Kid's birthday!!!!

Awww, and look! Maddie and Ripley made you a cake!!

Flashback

I've been wanting to do this for a while -

Maddie then...notice the proto-tail o'doom....

and more way back then...

...and now. Funny, but she has the exact same expression on her little mug.

Tueday kittehs

Halp! mah ear iz gone!!

Hallooooo? I'ze blurry! HALP!!!

Dis sister has a flvr.

Ripleeeeeeeeeee!!!

Mah nosie iz pink...

mah fur iz fluffeee and thik....

and mah tosies R tuftee....

U want giv me scritches nao? thought so. k thx bai.

Awwwww....

Golden Retriever Nurses Stray Kitten.

The end times are nigh.

hat tip: Culture of Truth

Sunday Maddie

It seems sillyness was in the air this weekend. Maddie sat up like this, staring at the teevee for a good five minutes.

photos are high res.