Toronto Star: Cool cats now have their own online social network
(h/t: IOTW)
By Lesley Ciarula Taylor
Social networking for cats has arrived.
Two tech geeks with a fondness for felines and an eye for niche marketing have created Catmoji, a Pinterest-like website that is wall-to-wall cat pictures, cat videos and cat chats.
Matthew Phiong and Koekoe Loo don’t actually own cats themselves, they told the Toronto Star by email on Monday.
They had previously created the social network Flvrd, a website where users could share any visual content they liked.
“We found out that most of our users share cat pictures and videos,” they said.
“We also like to procrastinate with cats on the Internet so we decided to just focus on cat pictures and videos.”
The emoji (emoticon) part of the site lets users find their favourite felines by emotion: happy, sad, cute or funny. There are kitten pages, genetic anomaly pages and celebricat pages.
And the cats get to like, share and comment on other cats.
Catmoji launched on Christmas Eve with 800 users who post their own images. They’ve doubled that membership in two weeks, the pair said.
“We are working round the clock to keep Catmoji up and running.”
Phiong, an online developer with a passion for startups, and Loo, an artist, were born and raised in Penang, Malaysia, where they studied computer science together.
Phiong did have a pet cat as a boy and Loo fostered a stray who died, which they speculate may be the root of their fascination.
Or, as they said, perhaps they just like “building eye candy projects that bring happiness to others.”
I’m not gonna look at the genetic anomalies pages. That sounds like nightmare fuel to me.
Yes, Catmoji is on Twitter and Facebook.
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Um, OK. I’ll take a Firstie if nobody else wants it.
Cats: my cat is kinda boring and dumb. Interested in food and not much else.
@ Insert Clever Name Here:
Not mine. Smart as sh!t. Too smart. Dog smart. We call him are cat/dog.
@ Dolphin:
Are=our. Very long day.
The only endearing thing about our cat is how she insists on curling up on my lap late at night / right about bed time. For warmth I guess…
Oh my gosh! Those are some cute little critters!
1389AD, I know this is a cat thread, but if you don’t mind -- this is a dog video but it is so funny and so well done I thought everyone would enjoy it.
Two Dogs Dining in a Restaurant
I have feral cats hanging out around my bunkhouse…personally I think they are awesome…only difference between them and a jaguar is size…there is a wild female calico that owns the big tree in my courtyard patio…domestic, declawed, fatass, house cats do not interest me
@ heysoos:
I for one do not approve of declawing cats. If you can’t stand the idea that cats scratch things, either don’t have a cat, or get a stuffed one.
Mike C. wrote:
cats need to be left alone…I admire their independence. cats climb, it’s what they do and to rip their claws is unthinkable…cats are not pillows, they are natural born killers
@ heysoos:
TGoP ordered what is essentially an odd cardboard box for our cat. It is floored and walled with courragated cardboard end-on, so the courragations are facing the interior rather than the smooth faces. The cat loves to scratch the hell out of it. Saves a lot of wear and tear on the furniture and the knotted rugs. Since it’s a special pet thing, I’m sure it’s relatively overpriced, but still worth every penney. You can never tell what any individual cat will go for, but I’d recommend giving one a try.
And in case anybody missed it on the thread below, a growing “big box” retailer takes a stand…
Are you listeniung, Wal-mart?
Hat tip -- Scott Johnson at Powerline.
@ Mike C.:
I wish they were a local chain- I’d go there in a heartbeat!
Of course, now they’ll ban shotguns because of the amount of damage they do with each individual shot.
@ mfhorn:
Bill Clinton ruled (by Executive Order) that three types of shotgun were destructive devices: the Stryker 12, Streetsweeper, and USAS 12. To my knowledge, that designation has never been challenged in Court. I worry that Obama may try to do something similar with all semi-automatic weapons. I certainly hope that such an Executive Order would be challenged in Court, though I no longer trust John Roberts on the issue.
Iron Fist wrote:
Roberts is a snake.
Iron Fist wrote:
Look on the bright side -- now the grabbers are threatening the Fudds, too. Semi-auto shotguns are the modern standard for upland birds, migratory fowl, skeet and trap. Might finally get the Fudds to wake the hell up… Both Beretta and Benelli make semi-auto shotguns that hold 8 rounds -- a devastating short range weapon if loaded with buckshot.
well screw yourself , no more Kung Fu Panda.
@ RIX:
Most Europeans would agree with him.
Good morning Guggi. That’s too bad, lots of GI Cemeteries in France.
@ Guggi:
That’s what we get for saving them from the tender mercies of Josef Stalin. We really shouldn’t have done that.
@ Iron Fist:
Our Cold War commitment to protecting Europe allowed them to spend a
small percentage of GDP on defense.
On the other hand we spent a fortune.
mornin ya’ll
momcat says mumble mumble coffee mumble
Mike C. wrote:
The right of the kitteh to keep and bear claws, shall not be infringed!
@ Iron Fist:
hey IF
took the young lady to the gun show yesterday in nashville( it was PACKED)
found out she really like the edge weapons
@ The Osprey:
we just take a pair of toenail clippers and blunt the tips as needed
RIX wrote:
hmmm, funny I didn’t see this on the MSM…http://www.investingchannel.com/article/149722/The-War-On-Terror-Spreads-to-Africa-US-Sending-Troops-to-35-African-Nations
I like this site it has a lot of stuff nowt found elsewhere.
well Rasmussem fount out something we already knew
Republican Establishment Declares War on GOP Voters
the party’s Election 2012 failures have “brought forth one principal conclusion from establishment Republicans: They have a primary problem.”
As seen from the halls of power, the problem is that Republican voters think it’s OK to replace incumbent senators and congressman who don’t represent the views of their constituents. In 2012, for example, Republican voters in Indiana dumped longtime Sen. Richard Lugar in a primary battle.
This infuriated establishment Republicans for two reasons. First, because they liked Lugar and the way he worked. Second, because the replacement candidate was flawed and allowed Democrats to win what should have been a safe Republican seat.
So, according to Politico, the Washington team is gearing up a new effort to protect incumbents and limit the ability of Republican voters to successfully challenge establishment candidates.
That makes sense to those whose sole goal is winning a majority in Congress rather than changing the course of government policy. Seen from the outside, though, it sounds like the professional politicians are saying that the only way to win is to pick more candidates like the insiders. Hearing that message, the reaction of many Republican and conservative voters is, “Why bother?”
@ brookly red:
See it’s ok when Obama deploys troops, but evil when a Republican
does it.The MSM is so nuanced.
RIX wrote:
but to 35 countries? that’s kinda hard to not notice… and not one peep outta congress? smells bad
@ rain of lead:
Knives are good. I got a couple of nice ones for Christmas. I wish our state had sensible knife laws.
Iron Fist wrote:
you might like this place… http://www.knife-depot.com/ but you probably already know it.
I have one knife one could rationally use in combat -- a 6.5″ blade Bowie knife by Buck that they haven’t made in decades. But I’ll take any of the handguns over it any day of the week.
Is it just me, or has the de facto OOT been the newest thread for a very long time?
what’s up with this?
Chief Justice John Roberts Schedules A Case Regarding Obamas Forged IDs to be Heard in Conference Before the Full Supreme Court.
The case titled Noonan, Judd, MacLeran, Taitz v Bowen provides a mountain of evidence of Barack Obama using a last name not legally his, forged Selective Service application, forged long form and short form birth certificate and a Connecticut Social Security number 042-68-4425 which was never assigned to him according to E-Verify and SSNVS. Additionally, this case provides evidence of around one and a half million invalid voter registrations in the state of California alone.
http://redflagnews.com/headlines/just-in-supreme-court-of-the-united-states-to-hold-conference-on-eligibility-of-obama
The Republicans are still in shock.
Instead of taking on their foe, they are purging the Tea Party.
mawskrat wrote:
I see that as a lottery ticket… sure it would be great but very long odds
RIX wrote:
in the long run the TP will purge them methinks
@ brookly red:
I agree, the Tes Party will make some chnges & not get candidates like
Christine O’Donnell & Sharon Angle nominated anymore.
They have done a lot of good things & the left uses ridiculous smears
aginst them because they are effective.
RIX wrote:
the have done a lot in a short time, give them a few more yrs to get it together
@ RIX:
The Country Club Republicans would rather be in the Minority than have the Tea Party people in charge. I’be come to believe that the Republican leadership hates the base. We aren’t their kind of people. That’s why the leadership has been basically silent about the gun control issue. Sure, they could win lots of goodwill from the base by championing the Second Amendment, but they’d take hits from the Media Elites.
Mike C. wrote:
Looks like the crew is sleeping in today.
@ mawskrat:
It’s a hearing for grant of cert, not a case. It requires 4 justices to grant cert. If that happens, then it’s a case.
New Thread.
@ Mike C.:
Actually, “hearing” is the wrong word as well. More like a panel discussion amognst the justices -- no lawyers for either side involved. They judge whether or not to grant the petition for cert.
@ brookly red:
The Tea Party gave the Republicans the House majority & they can
take it away.
Er, are comments turned off on that new thread?
@ Mike C.:
thanks
@ Rodan:
where did the comments box go?
@ Iron Fist:
I think that in general the “folks”{ are offensive to DC types.
They suspect that we shop at Walmart.
This blog is like totally Borked…
Commynts are off on the top thread
Mike C. wrote:
If the Wise Latreena and the Fugly Lesbian sit on that panel, it’s dead as a doornail.
What is this Texan football team thing? I thought there were only Cowboys and Oilers
Iron Fist wrote:
That is more true than a lot of Folks would like to believe.
Last year at the Minnesota state GOP nominating convention the GOPe was so busy fighting the TEA party Folks that the convention nominated a Ron Paul supporter to run against incumbent DFL U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar. He had his ass handed to him and Senator Klobuchar has another six years to screw us all. And to make matters worse, for us Folks in Minnesota, the GOPee lost control of both the State Senate and State House.
Gains made over the last few years by the grass-roots have all been lost. It really is time to ditch the GOPee once and for all.
@ mawskrat:
Por nada.
Cross thread posting. I like the idea of the gun free zone sign. Making the hysterical think about what they are crying about.
Broncos broke down on pretty bad pass coverage. They were crushed.
Packers broke down on a poor QB contain plan. Never adjusted. Coaching trip.
@ 53 Da_Beerfreak: That is the self centered politician that wants to lose and try and alinsky their own party to earn money or future political capital. The measure of a political operative should be their passion and desire to win today. Build some depth into the ranks.
Jackie Chan calls America the more corrupt country in the world. Calls communist China a pair of dice.
darkwords wrote:
This is incorrect, this results in political operatives that embarrass the ideology that “The End Justifies the Means” and that never ever ends well for anyone. All tyrannies and despotism have that ideology as their foundation.
bout time.
darkwords wrote:
Big deal, Jackie Chan is and always has been a Chinese Citizen. In western philosophical ideology we are taught not to embrace diametrically opposed ideas, as if somehow attempting to do so will destroy our brains and turn us into crazy homicidal maniacs.
This is not true in Asian/Oriental Philosophy. A great deal of their philosophy accepts that it is perfect normal to hold diametrically opposed opinions on any subject, this is the essence of Tao.
So, most American’s can’t understand how Jackie, or any other Chinese could hold negative opinions of America, and yet still hold very positive opinions at the exact same time. Like the Beijinger also quoted in the article. It’s a genuine difference in the basic underlying philosophical ideological though processes developed over thousands of years but very sophisticated civilizations that were basically separated to the point where they did not influence each other.
The basic foundational philosophies of the West and the East really are totally different, and as a result, people from the West and people from the East genuinely do not approach problem solving or conceptualization the same way.
@ doriangrey: I just think we should never run for “second place”. Play to win. Not at all costs. Certainly not with an unvetted goofball as the candidate.
@ 62 doriangrey: True that west and east are yin and yang. In terms of religious values and in terms of material values. Accept one accept the other.
China is historically corrupt. And factitious. Chan here is more representative of Chinese Nationalism than Chinese altruism. In this sense China has the same narrow issue that Islam has or hard core SOCON has. A complete inability to understand and work with outside influences.
I think the Chinese history of family values and education coupled with their language structure does position them well to run the future. They just have to get past their own corruption. And I do think we have a huge problem with information corruption in the US. Where people misuse information. The dems are corrupt. but not quite as corrupt as chicoms.
Chicago is chicom light.
darkwords wrote:
Anyone can be painted as a goofball if the individuals doing the painting don’t have any morals or ethics. What is truly difficult is learning to accept that you have been indoctrinated and manipulated by media propaganda. You cannot solve any problem that you cannot admit exists.
Playing to win is one thing, forsaking any and all morals and ethics to achieve that victory is another thing altogether. Understanding that it is possible to play to win, without sacrificing ones morals and ethics is difficult when you have been indoctrinated your entire life to believe that only the utterly ruthless and amoral win.
Fox pre game
darkwords wrote:
They’re completely fubar’ed. Time to scrap the GOPee and start a new party.
This is one of those times when it is better to start over with a new design then to kluge the old one one more time and hope that fixes it this time.
@ doriangrey:
This seems to be key.
How to get a person to recognize a problem.
I like Allen West. A good soldier and Christian.
I need the Catholic Church to start suing the Feds to back off out of Church territory.
@ 68 Da_Beerfreak: I signed up for libertarian party meetings. I might activist some lib issues but not vote their way for POTUS.
I don’t think auditing the fed is an issue a low info voter has an ounce of concern about. So in that aspect libertarians are as out of touch as the GoP.
So far all the libertarian meetings are date nights at a local pub. I was thinking it would be a good way for lobo91 to find that crazy chick he is looking for.
darkwords wrote:
Corruption is not a unique Chinese problem, unfortunately it is a unique human problem. I like the Chinese people, respect the culture, and am fascinated by their history. I hate Marxism of any flavor though.
I don’t have any problems with what Jackie Chan said, it doesn’t scare or offend me. Much of it is true. The fact that a foreign citizen who just happens to have made his fortune entertaining an American audience said something like that doesn’t bother me in the slightest. I knew who and what Jackie Chan was right after I watched my very first Jackie Chan movie. I still enjoy his movies and this won’t change that.
Since the top thread is broke, maybe you can pop one of mine out of pending and drop it in as the OT.
There is one big problem with starting a new party. The GOP is incredibly successful (generally) and fields conservative candidates AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. How do you separate out an extremely efficient local machine from the corrupt national machine that wants to limit voter choices?
Mars wrote:
That my friend is the 64 billion dollar question.
Which one of you broke the blog today?
@ Calo: >>>Dorian
Mars wrote:
If there was an “extremely efficient local machine” in Minnesota I wouldn’t be bitching…
Mars Hill church opened up a few block away. Urban evangelical church. lot of young 20 and 30 somethings in attendance today with a coffee cart at the entrance. Very grass roots organized.
@ darkwords:
Dorian, it figures.
He tweets broken links too.
darkwords wrote:
Tragically while being able to see and accept that there is a problem is absolutely required to solve any problem, finding the actual solution isn’t as easy as identifying the problem. Get others to accept the solution is often even more difficult than getting them to admit that there is a problem in the first place.
@ 77 Da_Beerfreak: In Minnesota, those are the mosquitos. I always thought that Hamm’s beer bear was a go getter.
@ 80 doriangrey: to me that is gun consciousnesses versus gun control. The anti gun people can see better gun consciousness as the solution to the problem. The anti gun thinker is a walking TV ad for a deer in the headlights. So concerned about the illusion of gun control that they get run over by a truck.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
As someone born there, I sure wouldn’t want to live there anymore. Seriously Franken? And a Muzz? WTF.
Sounds like the whole state is off the rails.
@ 83 Mars: If we were all to agree that we need to change the US in some fundamental way. I would favor the creation of city states. Make San Francisco it’s own political entity. Put up toll bridges.
@ Mars:
Franken stole his seat, and the GOP let him. He’s a walking arguement for voter ID.
Iron Fist wrote:
That I would fully agree with.
The one thing that really does disturb me is the inability of the GOP to even attempt to fight back at voter fraud.
Every major dem politician in my state has committed some form of fraud and/or campaign finance violation. They go to court pay a tiny ass fine and take office.
How the hell does that work?
The fact that Franken got enough votes to even make fraud possible is terrifying to me.
Mars wrote:
they drink at the same trough
Mars wrote:
It is. Too much ethanol money for starters…
Mars wrote:
upthread it was mentioned that in California alone they are estimating/investigating half a million cases, I don’t think people have the slightest idea how rigged our elections are
darkwords wrote:
Forget about the bridges. Only a wall will hold back that much stupid. Maybe…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
and don’t forget to cut the phone lines…
Iron Fist wrote:
It wasn’t the GOP’s fault. First Coleman was a green RINO that couldn’t get enough votes to beat the margin of fraud. Second and very important, the Minn. Sec.of State is a former ACORN and current Soros minion. Part of Soros’s Sec of State project. Remember, It’s all about who counts the vote…
Mars wrote:
Norm Coleman wasn’t that good of a candidate…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Screw that… I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit… It’s the only way to be sure… httpsv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Yeah we got saddled with one of Soros’ personal Sec. of States here. He even sent his personal butt boy Dave Sirota to oversee everything and make sure the elections went off his way.
Luckily it seems he has given up on us and sent Sirota to CO a few years back.
brookly red wrote:
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure…
Mars wrote:
We need to figure out a way to do that here.
Mars wrote:
Soros is a busy guy…http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sweeping-new-gun-laws-proposed-by-influential-liberal-think-tank/2013/01/12/65192d26-5c2a-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_print.html
Same day voter registration has got to go too.
At my local polling place there was more people waiting to register then Folks waiting to vote. Not a good sign at all.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Same here.
Also voting registration booths outside of Public Assistance and homeless shelters needs to be illegal. (Our public assistance is walking distance from the homeless shelters, and every election cycle there is a brand new booth set up outside OPA, complete with stickers for the “correct” candidates and absentee voting assistance.)
Top thread fixed.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
we should all vote in real time at ATMs, instant ID verification, realtime vote count, good stuff. The infrastructure is already there… And just to make sure, make voter fraud a hanging offense. That should clear things up a lot.
brookly red wrote:
ROTFLMAO… I suggested that a couple of years ago, nice of you to finally catch up…
@ doriangrey:
Of-course you would love that. It would make you Hemp business take off!
doriangrey wrote:
Sorry. I don’t trust any form of all electronic voting.
Paper ballots and indelible markings. Purple finger would be a nice touch. Machine counting can be secured and made reliable enough to produce honest results…