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09 Sep 2009 11:21

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Offbeat: Here’s a couple big catstravaganza (a.k.a. 09/09/09) numbers

  • 9 lives number of lives cats have; which is why efforts to take them down (we’re looking at you, Urlesque) will be futile and incredibly lame source

09 Sep 2009 11:10

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Biz: Perfect for a crazy cat lady: Bernie Madoff’s old penthouse

  • $10 million in ill-gotten catnip, and it’s all yours source

09 Sep 2009 11:02

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Offbeat: That’s right, it’s time for another fan-submitted cat photo! Whoo!

Deb Markham's cat

Deb Markham, one of our favorite fans of the site, offered up her cat, Katt, for the CatFormBlog treatment. On this Catstravaganza, we hope that you take photos of your cats this comparably glamorous.

09 Sep 2009 10:48

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09 Sep 2009 10:36

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Tech: To celebrate the catstravaganza, Apple heavily cuts iPod prices

iPod price discounts
  • The prices have all been cut, but the one on the far right is most significant – it’s $120 cheaper than it was before. Apple’s event is in just a couple of hours. We’ll have the latest, kids. (The store, at last check, was closed.)source

09 Sep 2009 10:25

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Music: Snoop Dogg is top cat at an iconic hip-hop label imprint

  • Priority Records just made him top priority. Everybody loves Snoop Dogg, right? (Well, besides the dogg thing, but today he’s an honorary cat.) Well, Priority Records, a gangsta rap label which released classic West Coast hip-hop from the likes of NWA, Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Westside Connection, is making him creative chairman of the label. Just in time for their 25th anniversary, Priority will put him in charge of a series of releases to commemorate the label’s history. Not bad, Niggarachi. source

09 Sep 2009 10:14

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World: India has a lot of tigers, and they kill a lot of cows

  • 1,300 or half the world’s wild tigers, live in India source
 

09 Sep 2009 10:04

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Offbeat, Tech: Forget Apple’s Snow Leopard. Here are some real ones.

And unlike the new version of Mac OSX, nobody’s going to unfavorably compare these cats to Windows Vista – to their face. source

09 Sep 2009 09:55

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Offbeat: Do you hear that? That’s rage over cat declawing.

  • San Francisco is trying to ban cat declawing. The SPCA isn’t happy. A fight for feline rights is turning into a bit of a brawl between Bay Area politicians and animal cruelty experts. San Francisco wants to ban declawing, saying it’s a simple animal cruelty issue. (It’s kinda like a concealed weapons law, really.) The local SPCA, while against declawing in general, says that it shouldn’t be regulated politically. If only cats had their own Harvey Milk to fight for them … source

09 Sep 2009 09:36

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Offbeat: Happy Catstravaganza! Here’s the world-famous ninja cat