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E-KittyE-KittyGrok Headline matches for E-KittyHere, Kitty kitty...Here, Kitty kitty... 01/05/2005 09:10 AM If you have a cat, you'll recognize many of these immediately. Although some of them are availiable in a book< /a>, many of these have only appeared in the comic so far. Luckily, someone with far more spare time than I have has collected them for our enjoyment. hello, kitty, againhello, kitty, again 05/14/2004 10:37 PM JANE PINCKARD -- The market for cute is, apparently, bottomless, especially in Japan. Are there really that many female teenagers? Or do the adults there also have a cute fetish? These are questions for another time - but for now, while it won't support your limited edition Hello Kitty Dreamcast,... Here Kitty, KittyHere Kitty, Kitty 04/26/2004 10:22 AM There's more than one way to skin a cat, according to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. He admitted in a 1989 book, Tra nsplant, that he routinely adopted shelter cats under false pretenses so he could sharp en his surgical skills. (04-26) Here, kitty, kitty...Here, kitty, kitty... 04/22/2004 09:12 AM Here, kitty, kitty. Help control the pet population... buy a Sportka. Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, KittyHere Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty 08/06/2004 04:39 AM Although its claims have not been verified by a scientic review process, a company says it has successfully cloned two kittens from its CEO's pet cat. If you have around $50,000, it will clone your beloved pet, too. Is Hello Kitty a Copycat?Is Hello Kitty a Copycat? 09/12/2004 11:51 PM Xeni Jardin: 
A blogger who describes himself as an "extraordinary ordinary guy in
Japan" says this on the 30th anniversary of Hello Kitty:
"Kitty's design was just a crib from ... Musti, created by the Belgian animator/director Ray Goossens (1924-1998) [Ed note: she's the center figure in the BoingBoing graphic at left]. Musti was started as an animation series on TV in 1968, and its picture books were also published. I read some of that books and loved it in my childhood. Although it is evident to everybody that Kitty was an imitation of Musti, Sanrio, the publisher of Hello Kitty have not touched on it. It is said that the total copyright fee for Hello Kitty reaches around 15 billion yen (13.7 million USD) per year, and Sanrio got 23.7 billion yen (21.6 million USD) gross sales in second quarter of 2004. I wonder why they don't feel shady about hiding the fact."I'm no Hello Kitty historian, and that's news to me. Is it true? Link to post. This guy has a cool blog. His post about Japanese "jinxes" was also interesting. On a related note, don't miss the image of "Hello Kitty De Milo" in this news story, which is, like, so obviously a total ripoff of some Greek art dude. Link (Thanks, Brian)
Update: OMG! This is turning into one big
plushy piracy clusterfuck! BoingBoing reader Eva says, "See my response
on Hello Kitty vs Musti here. Basically, I think Musti is in turn a
rip off of the Dutch rabbit Miffy, which was published more than a
decade before Musti." Link
Hello Kitty RobotHello Kitty Robot 07/12/2004 08:52 AM
So to celebrate three decades of soul-sucking kawaii frenzy, Sanrio has developed, among other products, a $3,700 Hello Kitty Robot. I know! Come inside to find out the details, and we'll giggle and clap and jump together. Hello Kitty says, "Hello Blosxom"Hello Kitty says, "Hello Blosxom" 12/17/2004 06:28 PM Hello Kitty has a blog. Ms. Kitty blogs (in Japanese, of course), moblogs, links to her friends, writes of her latest jewelry likes and dislikes, and so on--just like any other blogger worth their salt ;-). As if that weren't enough, Jo i Ito pinged me when he noticed that the blog, a joint Sanrio/NTT Data project, is running on Blosxom. Take a gander at the RSS output at http://diary.hello kitty.ne.jp/blog/index.rss: <xml version="1.0"?> <!-- name="generator" content="blosxom/2.0" --> <DOCTYPE rss PUBLIC "-//Netscape Communications//DTD RSS 0.91//EN" "http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.91.dtd"> "iPod Kitty""iPod Kitty" 12/19/2004 02:51 PM A very kitty ChristmasA very kitty Christmas 12/26/2003 12:39 AM Dilsey enjoyed the Christmas tree this year. (8 words) Note: The "dive into mark" feed you are currently subscribed to is deprecated. If your aggregator supports it, you should upgrade to my Atom feed, which includes both summaries and full content. Hello Kitty, Goodbye GodHello Kitty, Goodbye God 02/01/2005 09:01 PM "Cats are not advisable as pets or companions for Christians ... While the animal itself may be unaware of this tragic condition, it serves only its true master -- Satan." Hello Kitty accessories for PS2Hello Kitty accessories for PS2 05/15/2004 04:27 AM 
For sale: Hello Kitty memory cards for the PlayStation 2.
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Hello Kitty HeadlampsHello Kitty Headlamps 04/21/2004 08:45 AM For just ¥4,179, these Hello Kitty replacement headlamps put our favorite kawaii kitten into the halo of blinding light she's always deserved. [Thanks, Remo] Look - Fullsize Image Read - Sanrio Store... Hello Kitty GuitarHello Kitty Guitar 09/01/2004 09:36 AM What acolyte of rock wouldn't be proud to walk through a smokey club with a matching pink gig bag? None I would prefer to rock to, that's for sure. Read - Hello Kitty Electric Guitar - RARE!! [Hunkabutta] Hello Kitty Bluetooth HeadsetHello Kitty Bluetooth Headset 09/22/2004 08:38 AM
Read - Hello Kitty breaks free & discovers Bluetooth [Blueserker]
Kitty Spangles Solitaire 1.0Kitty Spangles Solitaire 1.0 03/22/2005 04:35 PM The prettiest Solitaire for the Mac, featuring beautiful animated backgrounds and a stylish cat girl! That's Queen Hello Kitty to you, bitchThat's Queen Hello Kitty to you, bitch 09/11/2004 02:31 PM Xeni Jardin: 
Platinum icon of Hello Kitty with a diamond-studded crown and
0.753-carat pink diamond scepter, created in honor of the character's
30th birthday. 100 of them are available at a cool 1 mil yen JP
($91,186.79 US). Link to Xinhua news story. (Thanks Ivy)
Hello Kitty Desktop VacuumHello Kitty Desktop Vacuum 08/16/2004 12:41 PM
Also, have you noticed people saying kawaii a lot lately, too? I doubt they are doing the clap and giggle. You gotta do the clap and giggle. Read - Hello Kitty Desktop Cleaner - Pink (Duh!) [Jbox via RedFerret via Engadget] More Hello Kitty yum yum links after the jump. Hello Kitty Meets Her DoomHello Kitty Meets Her Doom 08/09/2004 09:46 AM
Read - Sony Ericsson K700i: burning bright [Polycount via TaoOfMac via BoingBoing] Hello Kitty flashlight for Doom 3Hello Kitty flashlight for Doom 3 08/09/2004 02:10 AM 
Doom 3 has only just come out and already the modders are revving up
their engines. My favorite so far: a Hello Kitty flashlight mod that
makes your gun's built-in light cast a kuwaii beam on the objects it
alights upon.
Link
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Kitty Spangles Solitaire releasedKitty Spangles Solitaire released 03/22/2005 05:04 PM Swoop Software has released Kitty Spangles Solitaire, a new solitaire card game for Mac OS X. The game features the friendly faces of Kitty Spangles and her friends Ferdiham the pig and Bim Bim the chimp. A downloadable demo is available; it costs US$19.95 to register. It might have been like Kitty Hawk, NC,
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Sid, who blogs Winkie, lives in Tokyo.
Yesterday, he got a press release for a Hello Kitty branded insect
repellent pendant, designed to be worn on the wrist or around the
neck. The press release has lots of great janglish:
Somewhere in time, a bunch of children marched for twenty
years through nail biting straight A and amphetamine-fueled electrical
engineering finals to collapse at the top of their heap. For years
they toiled to learn which circuits monitored motion, how sensors
could be made that could detect human touch, and have to make liquid
and crystals display bright, vibrant colors. And then, in their final
service to humanity, they created the Siemens CX70 EMOTY handset and
loaded it with Hello Kitty My Best Friends, a collection of
interactive mini-games that let us shake, stroke, and smoosh Hello
Kitty through a variety of activities that are guaranteed to keep us
diverted for moments to come.