A cat momentarily gets into a fight with himself. It may be a case of temporary loss of body awareness, or what some of us call a brain fart. -via Cynical-C

Hardcore homemade robots will go head-to-head in a fight to the finish at Combots Cup V, the annual championship for combat robots. On October 23rd and 24th in San Mateo, California, robots from one to 220 pounds will compete for a total of $3500 in prize money and champion bragging rights!

SEE heavyweight fighting robot behemoths like Last Rites and Sewer Snake wipe the walls with each other inside our custom built bulletproof arena!

THRILL to all the good parts of a NASCAR crash without all that pesky danger to human life! All the excitement of monster trucks, but up close and extremely personal!

FLAME THROWERS! SPINNING BLADES OF DOOM! HYPER-PSI STEEL FLIPPERS OF NASTINESS!

Also, it’s educational for the kids, but you don’t have to tell them that. You’ll also be able to speak with the people who design and build the robots -and you have a combat robot, you’ll want to enter! Link -Thanks, Simone!

(Image courtesy of Combots.net)

Over at NeatoGeek, John Farrier has an intriguing Question of the Day post. He asks who would win in a fight, the super blogger Miss Cellania or the dark wizard Saruman?

My money is on Miss C, because with all those kids in her house, she must’ve developed some serious mom-fu: Link

Something happened to make the baby cry, and the cat assumes the adult is at fault. This cat is a serious baby defender! Warning: heavy metal ahead. -via Unique Daily

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This should counter the hornet massacre from earlier with a more interesting look at animals confronting each other.  Anyone know the location?  Vietnam?  The giggling girl makes me smile big.

via Cynical-C

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How about we celebrate Friday with a good old fashioned cat fight?  Now I wanna see a good clean fight, no hitting below the tail, shake paws and good luck!

via AcidCow.

If you need the protection of a guard animal, would you be better off with a Rottweiler … or a cat? Watch the video first …

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You’d probably think that giraffes are gentle animals by looking at them in a zoo. But in the wild, when push comes to shove, these wild animals fight and fight hard.

But have you ever thought of *how* they fight? After all, all giraffes have are their looooong necks. This clip, filmed on safari in Tanzania, will show you.

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I like this pairing of the fight scene music from that Star Trek episode, and these two cats squaring off.