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Xeni Jardin at 5:52 pm Sun, Mar 28, 2010

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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • qousqous

    I did a similar thing a couple years ago. For some reason, this just seems a natural thing to do to kittens.

  • Anonymous

    That picture just made my co-worker cry.

  • jerrberr

    protoblog word.com collected similar images from 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/19970615075253/www.word.com/gigo/kittens/

  • Anonymous

    My hairdresser found a whole nest of these in my beehive one time.

  • Capissen

    I’d ask for unicorns, but I’d be afraid they’d be spider unicorns, which is arguably more frightening.

  • Venice Hotels

    Haha .. spider unicorn, my freaky imagination’s telling my how would might look a spider rabbit ..creappy .. like this quite little cat .. :).. cute animals are creappy “spiderish” … :-|

  • Anonymous

    hahahahahahahaha.. well done! :)

  • Xeni Jardin

    I hereby request that someone photoshop an awesome spiderunicorn.

    • Rob Beschizza

      Spidercorn.

      http://www.boingboing.net/images/spidercorn.jpg

      • AirPillo

        aaahhhhh!!!

        That set my arachnaphobia ablaze even more than the pictures of an actual big creepy spider linked above.

        *shudder* I need a shower now.

        • Felton

          Sorry about the creepy spider link, AirPillo. Sometimes I forget that not everyone is a freak like me who kind of likes spiders. ;-)

          • AirPillo

            My fault for clicking the link. I still thought it was neat even if it squicked me.

            I have a love/hate relationship with the things. If I see a really fascinating one I’ll spend some time looking at it and reading about it, even as I start to feel like every little tickle on my skin is a spider crawling on me (phobias really know how to get to you in such terrible ways).

            Sometimes it’s unfortunate being a curious person.

          • Felton

            Sometimes it’s unfortunate being a curious person.

            Hehe! Well, that’s the internet for you. It’s both a paradise and a graveyard for curious souls. Maybe that’s why it’s made of cats.

  • Santa’s Knee

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/l337moomoo/spidercat.jpg

  • Felton

    Then, of course, there’s the Cat-Faced Spider.

  • endymion

    Aren’t we over this kind of thing? Maybe if this were 2001….

  • oohShiny

    *squeezes eyes shut* “Blog of WONDERFUL things. Blog of WONDERFUL THINGS.”

  • oohShiny

    Also, they’re supposed to have eight eyes.

    • Terry

      “Also, they’re supposed to have eight eyes.”

      Really? Because it’s half-spider, or because it’s half-cat?

      • Felton

        All I can say is that Spider-Man got off lucky.

      • oohShiny

        It’s the half-spider part responsible for the eight eyes. At least, in my breeding experiments. To that end, I also agree with Scuba SM @ #12:

        KILL IT WITH FIRE.

        • Terry

          Kill it with fire?

          Why not just sic the spiderunicorn on it?

  • Felton

    Can it spin its own ball of yarn?

  • Scuba SM

    Kill it with Fire.

  • 23refugee

    Please! Stop with the spider-cat prejudice.
    My aunt had one and it was the sweetest pet ever!

    • oohShiny

      She must have figured out how to breed out the desire to wreak vengeance on the natural world for its unnatural nature. That was always the sticking point.

      And Terry: Because Sleipnir doesn’t have a horn.

      • 23refugee

        No, it was a rescue. Just nurture over nature is my guess.

        • oohShiny

          Does your aunt do adoptions? There’s this guy named Glen Beck that could really do with some of that ‘nurture’ thing, I think.

          • 23refugee

            She’s kind hearted true, but I’m afraid that that’s one kitten she’d bag and toss in the creek for the good of the breed.

  • anacecitux

    For a moment there I thought I was in 4chan

  • Anonymous

    This picture is extremely disturbing.

  • Antinous / Moderator

    How soon they forget.

  • igpajo

    I’ve seen video of a Spider Dachsund!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsaXfNgQZ4

  • Felton

    Spider-cat thinks you all look funny too.

  • proletariat

    I hereby request that someone photoshop an awesome spiderunicorn.

    The Internet brings all ideas to life with an even higher degree of horror. A flickr search reveals an image more terrifying than anything Photoshop’ed: SpiderGimpUniporn

    Why!? :(

  • Edman

    Quick photoshop of Spider-Unicorn. Fortunately, all living specimens have died out.

    http://s867.photobucket.com/albums/ab231/edmangoodrich/spider-unicorn.jpg

  • Susannah Breslin

    Spidercorn is scary!!!

  • Empt

    Spider Cat looks just like ArachnaKitty, one of the Chapman Brothers paintings. It’s featured in a Derren Brown “trick”……..

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOR9nokhueY

    The painting is shown at around the :30 mark, but I highly recommend everyone watches the rest of the segment……It’s Too Cool…..

  • Anonymous

    Spider cat, spider cat, does whatever a spider cat does, can he swing from a web? No he can’t, he’s a… wait… wtf is he?

  • Alex

    I can has rule 34?

  • Anonymous

    Its not only a spider-cat.. Its a ginger spidercat. It has no soul!

  • Anonymous

    It still somehow looks cute to me…

  • Pipenta

    Problem here, with the ‘cat ‘n’ the ‘corn; necks.

    You see, if you have all those eyes, you don’t need no neck. No, wait, that’s not it. If you have a neck, you don’t need all those eyes. Spiders got lotsa eyes. Spiders got lotsa legs. Spiders got no neck. Instead they got fused body segments, a cephalothorax. PhotoShop THAT my pretties. PhotoShop a kitty and a unicorn and Toby McGuire with no freakin’ neck, with their heads fused to their chests.

    Oh yes, and then we’ll have some nightmares worth having.

  • Anonymous

    I can has flies?

  • Anonymous

    It does have 8 eyes: like spiders, two eyes are at the back of its head

  • tsukiii

    I have to admit that I find spidercat disturbingly cute… must be because it’s still small and fluffy. Or because I need some serious mental help.

  • proletariat

    Incidentally, as a gay dude, this is what I’ve always imagined a pussy would look like.

    • 23refugee

      From what I gather, the newer models usually have the fur trimmed and a tattoo just above the tail.

    • benher

      Your comment made me snort beer out of my nose.

      …which is pretty good considering Spider-cat made me snort poo out of my rear.

  • thefuture

    Spiderbaby is not scared.