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		<title>Cats, lol</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine from grad school works at a company that promotes magazines.  Apparently the P.R. director got approached by the editor of this magazine: It&#8217;s called Cats in Space, and I think it&#8217;s the most beautiful thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.  It even beats out SparkleWorld. Seriously. I hope it&#8217;s real. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine from grad school works at a company that promotes magazines.  Apparently the P.R. director got approached by the editor of this magazine:</p>
<p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b81/FirstCrusader/gettingthere.jpg" alt="Cats in space!" align="middle" border="1" width="195" height="256" /></p>
<p>It&#8217;s called <a href="http://catsinspace.awesomecats.com/CatsinSpaceMagazine.html" title="No, really--Cats. In space.">Cats in Space</a>, and I think it&#8217;s the most beautiful thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life.  It even beats out <a href="http://www.ccgdata.com/105w-6.html" title="No space, but there are sparkles! And maybe even kittens!">SparkleWorld</a>. Seriously. I hope it&#8217;s real.</p>
<p>Actually, one of the even better things about CiS is its parent site. This high-quality publication is hosted by the similarly high-quality <a href="http://awesomecats.com/" title="Sparkles *and* cats! What more could you want?">awesomecats.com</a>. Content-wise, awesomecats performs its function of being a site about, well, cats. If cats are your thing, it has a decent collection of resources&#8211;if you can get past the horrible page design, at least. And the sad thing is, people have obviously very specifically spent a fair bit of time on the design of the site. The header, for instance, is beyond <em>my</em> Flash capabilities. Not that I&#8217;m some flash guru by any means, but somebody had some good quality bonding moments with Flash over that header. And they obviously try to offer a reasonable range of services. Why, I could register <a href="http://www.awesomecats.com/awesomecatsemail.html" title="Coming at you right here for realz on teh intarwebs!">wasabijane@awesomecats.com</a> if I so chose, or even have an awesomecats.com <a href="http://www.awesomecats.com/freecatwebsites.html" title="I can haz website?">website</a> of my very own!</p>
<p>Actually, this is what I find the most telling. Look at their site features: 5K free web space is but one example. For you non-techy people, <a href="http://www.sloppysecondsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/person.gif" title="It's a person!">this randomly selected image</a> is 4K. A single-spaced, one-page Word doc is likely to be at least 25K. This blog post is probably more than awesomecats can handle. And, even more telling, the first line of their <em>site features</em> reads as such: &#8220;<font face="Arial">No knowledge of web design or HTML is required to  	create websites.&#8221; </font>No kidding. But then, I think the only ones who would take them up on such an offer are people like the creators of Cats in Space.</p>
<p>&#8230;and anyway, I was always more of a dog person.</p>
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