http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4

Disclaimer: Under no circumstances would I EVER endorse the running over of cats with radio controlled cars.

It is magic, though. Lazy puss.

According to the wikipedia entry, Lolcats have been around for a few years but it was only when the dude behind http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ brought them all together that Lolcats gained internet Zeitgeist status. The process, though simple – take a picture of a cat and photoshop a cute comment, usually in broken “cat-lish” over the top – probably takes a bit of doing. For a start you need a good photo. I know I’ve taken many pictures of Charlie but none that have that look that suggests he might be doing something daft. He just seems to pose. Anyhows, http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/ has most of the originals and then http://www.lolcats.com put them together in a nice Web 2.0 format of sorts for everyone’s perusal.

The most important development of the Lolcat phenomenon would, in my opinion, have to be The Lolcat Bible. Now, this isn’t probably one for the more humourless Christian. In fact, I would bet a fair wager that if this was done certain other Great Faith religious texts, you can be guaranteed, there would be all sorts of hullabaloo. Enough about current affairs though. Browse through the Lolcat Bible and be either amused by the newest tranlation of great book or maybe stunned at the idea of the time that might have been spent translating it into gibberish that only a talking cat might fully understand.

The next site I stumbled across has a simple yet powerful raison d’etre – the documentation of cats……wait for it……in sinks.

http://www.catsinsinks.com/ has a neat design and with one click of the “Show me another cat in a sink!” button, you will presented by the sight of a new puss in a sink. Incredible stuff.

My final recommendation for now is an old classic from sometime last year. http://www.infinitecat.com/ started with one innocent photo of a cat admiring a rose. Little did the photographer realise that this photo would be the start of a continuum bending fashion of people photograpging their cats watching a monitor displaying the photo of the original cat. The result being an unending chain of cats watching cats watching cats watching cats watching a cat smelling a rose. The point, you ask? “Ask the inventor of the internet” would be my reply.

More updates as I find them (and have time to document them). I’m off to photograph my cat, in a sink, watching my The Infinite Cat Project on my laptop with the line “I’m in ur Sink…breakinur spac-time continuum”.

Laters.