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About.com: Bonsai Kitten - The World's Most Hated Website? - http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/animalsinsects/a/bonsai_kitten.htm
What began as a puerile joke has turned into an Internet cause celebre. Animal welfare advocates decry it and defenders of free speech, well ... defend it. By David Emery.

cats.about.com: Bonsai Kitten Redux - http://cats.about.com/pets/cats/library/weekly/blbonsai.htm
Black humor, parody, or satire, or a gross desecration to the principles of free speech? By Franny Syufy.

cats.about.com: Cat Lovers Call for Action - http://cats.about.com/pets/cats/library/weekly/aa122000a.htm
A call for action for removal of the web site Bonsai Kitten from MIT servers. By Franny Syufy.

cats.about.com: The Bonsai Kitten Wars - http://cats.about.com/pets/cats/library/weekly/aa021001a.htm
The Bonsai Kitten Wars are in full swing as both sides take pot-shots at the other. (First in a four-part series.) By Franny Syufy.

Hugs For Homeless Animals: Stop Cruelty - http://www.h4ha.org/stopcruelty/
Includes on-line petition to have Bonsai Kitten sites taken off-line.

Humane Society of the US: Bonsai Kitten Web Site - http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues_affecting_our_pets/animal_abuse_and_neglect/bonsai_kitten_web_site/
Release from the Humane Society of the US advising people not to e-mail the webmaster, but to complain to hosting ISPs.

kuro5hin: Nobody Wants Bonsai Kitten - http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2001/1/29/163019/161
The Bonsai Kitten website was forced to close down after some high profile organizations decided to believe someone was actually growing kittens inside glass jars.

Register: Bonsai Kitten craze sweeps online world - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/26/bonsai_kitten_craze_sweeps_online/
Hardly a week goes by without computer games being blamed for turning people into psychopathic killers, so it was strangely reassuring to see some of these dangerous maniacs up in arms over the spoof Bonsai Kitten web site. By Andrew Smith.

Register: FBI goes Bonsai Kitten hunting - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/02/10/fbi_goes_bonsai_kitten_hunting/
The FBI is reported to be investigating BonsaiKitten.com, the spoof Web site which has got animal lovers and anti-cruelty campaigners in uproar. By Andrew Smith.

Slashdot: Bonsaikitten Eaten By Carnivore - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/09/2243227
News and discussion forum.

Suck: Hit and Run 02.1.01 - http://www.suck.com/daily/2001/02/01/1.html
Whether you're a tortured kitty or an abused child, a moral and upright and increasingly stupid nation stands ready to defend you, despite the small fact that you don't actually exist.

The Chronicle: Created at MIT, a 'Bonsai Kitten' Web Site Stirs Animal Lovers' Passions - http://chronicle.com/free/2001/02/2001022101t.htm
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York has determined that a Web site showing kittens being stuffed into glass containers is only a joke. But the only people who seem to be laughing are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who created it. By Jennifer Jacobson.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Bonsai Kitten - http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/bonsai.htm
Is someone making 'bonsai kittens'?

USAToday: Bonsai Kitten site brings animal-rights roar - http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-20-ebrief.htm
She doesn't believe there is such a thing as bonsai kittens, or even that the MIT graduate students behind the Web site meant to do anything but make a "sick joke." But as president of Hugs for Homeless Animals, she stands by the e-campaign to shut it down, and she's hoping the FBI will take action. By Janet Kornblum.

Wired: FBI Goes After Bonsaikitten.com - http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/02/41733
A website devoted to squishing kittens into Mason jars is one of two things: A trenchant parody designed to provoke, or a nefarious kitty-mutilation scheme that must be stopped, and probably outlawed. By Declan McCullagh.

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