The Infinite Cat Project
My brother-in-law is at it again! He just sent me a link to “The Infinite Cat Project,” perhaps the wackiest kitty website he’s found to date. The project’s genesis goes back to when the website founder saw a cat picture posted to an Apple website, and then, shortly thereafter, he came upon another picture of a cat looking at a computer monitor displaying the first cat’s picture. 
www.infinitecat.com is building on this idea, with around 1,000 pictures of cats looking into computers screens picturing cats looking into more screens of cats looking at more screens. Or, as the site’s creator puts it:
The concept [of] The Infinite Cat Project is, simply, cats regarding cats regarding cats in an electronic milieu.
I’ll be happy to post a picture of YOUR cat as long as it’s shown looking at a monitor which bears the image of the latest picture in the ICP sequence.
As if this weren’t weird enough, the site also has a repository of tribute films, created in memoriam for cats who have moved on to the big litter box in the sky (including one of a cat named TM, which is kind of spooky given what’s emblazoned on the TurkeyMonkey mascot’s chest).
There’s also a grabbag of random clips, including a troubling one of a cat massaging its owner’s neck and another clip of a cat literally flying off the top of a telephone poll. The only thing more bizarre than the premise of infinitecat.com is that my brother-in-law keeps finding these crazy sites.
What is that cat doing to that poor sleeping man? Scratching his neck out?
I got your infinite cats right here!
Official: 200 dead cats found at animal worker’s home
Monday, May 23, 2005 Posted: 8:57 AM EDT (1257 GMT)
EAST ORANGE, New Jersey (AP) — A woman who founded a “no-kill” animal shelter was charged with health code and animal welfare violations after 200 dead cats were discovered rotting in garbage bags in her backyard.
Marlene Kess, who has built a reputation in Manhattan as a caretaker of homeless and dying cats, had 48 cats inside her house, including 38 in one room, authorities said.
Out back, 200 vermin-infested cat corpses were stuffed into garbage bags and apparently were going to be buried in a large hole that had recently been dug, said Sgt. Joseph Bierman of the state’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The cats were discovered after neighbors complained about the stench.
“Oh my God, it was awful,” said Michael Fowler of the Associated Humane Societies. “The smell was horrible.”
Kess, 56, is the founder and executive director of Kitty-Kind, which runs one of New York City’s few no-kill shelters.
She said the cats died of natural causes. State SPCA spokesman Matt Stanton told The Star-Ledger of Newark an investigation into the death of the cats is “ongoing.”
A longtime resident of Greenwich Village, Kess moved to East Orange in July.
“I take very good care of them,” Kess told reporters Friday. “People who know me know there’s no cruelty involved.”
Kess was cited for health code violations, including keeping an unlawful number of animals, harboring dead animals and causing an environmental hazard with the corpses. The SPCA, which enforces the state’s animal cruelty laws, charged Kess with 38 counts of failing to properly shelter cats.
Authorities are allowing Kess to keep the 48 cats in her home because she promised to separate the sick animals from the healthy ones, Bierman said.