(They’re not truly bad luck, of course. In fact, they make good pets, and most shelters have a least a few black cats who would be fine additions to any family.)

Via How Exactly Austin’s First Cat Cafe Blue Cat Works @ Austin Eater.

One wouldn’t prudently encourage other cat owners to try this with their cats, and it’s odd that this feline seems so entranced, but here’s a peculiar feline who likes a vacuum hose:

View image | gettyimages.com Always worth debunking bad press about cats – Cats Aren’t Evil: 5 Feline Myths That Just Aren’t True.

In Hiroshima, Japan, they’ve a variation on Google Map’s street view feature: Hiroshima prefecture has designed a purr-fect map for tourists wishing to see some of its attractions from a different angle. The prefecture on Tuesday launched a website with what it calls the world’s first “cat’s-eye view” street map, through which users can explore…

Via Bloomberg Business.

Wild cats hunt for their food, and one cat owner decided to recreate, in a way, the hunting experience for his cat. In the video below, Monkey the Cat fetches balls located around an apartment, and takes them to an automatic feeder that dispenses cat food when he retrieves a ball.

There’s a new exhibition in New York that recognizes the influence that cats have had in cyberspace: “For some reason, cats took off, and then it’s this avalanche that just sort of keeps piling up,” said Jason Eppink, the curator of “How Cats Took Over the Internet,” an exhibition that opens on Friday at the…