Is it because they walk like Japanese schoolgirls!?
Is it because they squeak incessantly and demand milks?
Is it because they HAVE PENETRATING BEADY EYES!?
Watch this video (on the NPR site) and find out.
Video by NPR's David Gilkey, submitted by Faris H. ;)
Let's check the "Kittiedex", The index that shows the most reported on animals of the week. Obviously, everyone should buy stock in Pandas.
News you can USE from Guardian UK. Nice find, Sender-Inner Christina R.
Weeeeeeeeeeee! C.O. made it onto the "Top 100 Favorite Blogs" in PC Mag just now...
Check out the whole list... including such favorites as DListed, GofugYourself, Cocktail Nerd, Fake Steve Jobs, etc.
My virtual acceptance speech: "PC Mag Editors, hearing that C.O. made this list is like a tiny little kittayn, in my ear, purring incessantly. Thank you!"
Eagle-eyed Steffy T. caught this maynshons of C.O. in the 10/9 Boston Metro newpaper.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thanks, Steffy and Hutch Owen...
Thanks for the mayn-shons, Self magazine. I agree, C.O, is all about de-stressing. And paws. And muzzlepowshes. And chomping on kitten ears while no one is looking.
Josée L., thank you for the SCAN-tabulous submishe!!!
It's true, People, this site is GOOD for you!
But you already knew that. Here's an article, and it's on the InterWebs, so you know it's fact.
Got a stressful event coming up? CHECK OUT THE KITTEHS!
Peeps, the fine folks over at The Petcast did an interview/cast for CuteOverload, and HERE it IS!
Check it OUT (it's show #93 ;)
The highlight is hostess Emily calling ferrets "furry knee socks with eyes". I have to send her a royalty every time I use that one.
Thanks to Steve and Emily, The Petcast Hosts :D
Woooooooooooo! Southwest Airlines! I luv you! (Southwest is all about The Luv, People). They must be thanking me for flying like, 40 flights last year.
Please see this fantastic layout in this month's Spirit magazine, mentioning C.O. as a new and noteworthy diversion! Hooray for diversions!
...the site may induce
diabetic shock, it’s a great place to visit whenever you need a pick-me-up.
Contributors post images of animals in cute situations, with baby animals and
interspecies snuggling being particularly popular.
C.O.’S RULES OF CUTENESS
No. 7: A thing
accompanied by a smaller version of that thing is always cute.
No. 9: Piles of a cute
thing jack up a cuteness rating exponentially.
No. 20: Show your paw pads.
No. 26: If you have four
legs and can tuck yourself in, you’re cute.
No. 34: If your tail
curls up, it’s cute.
OPPOSITE DAY
If too much cuteness makes
your teeth hurt, there’s always the blog’s evil twin, Ugly Overload
(uglyoverload.blogspot.com). There, you can find pictures of scorpions,
camels, gigantic spiders attacking hens, and other less photogenic creatures.
VISIT IF
You’re feeling cynical
about the world and need a quick smile. Longer visits require a high threshold
for baby talk.
FIND IT cuteoverload.com
Paula H.S., Thanks for the scan, Baybee!
// The excerpt of the article quoted above was provided by the Spirit Magazine Team. Thanks to MusicChick2 for arranging this! //
Dear authors of "100 Blogs We Love",
Thank you for including Cute O in your 100 Blogs We Love List. Here at C.O. headquarters, we ALWAYS aim for giving you the "most bang for your click" [double guns]
Being on the same list as Fake Steve Jobs has really made our day.
XO,
Meg
Woo hoo! A CBS Showbuzz podcast about C.O.! I sound both super square and ridiculous!
You'll learn amazing things like; What's the strangest thing someone ever sent in to CuteOverload? Do I have any pets? How was Cute Overload started? Incredible schtuff! [say in Johnny Carson voice]
Our Sthuper Sthecret Rules just got BoingBoinged. Oh, the hilarity!
Here you can see all the examples of LOLSpeak.
I wonder why they didn't just show the Glossary!?
That's what I'm EFFING TALKING ABOUT!
People, you're ridiculous.
THANK YOU for voting (with the baby stoat) for CuteOverload for the Webbys. We swept the 'Weird' category thanks to you and the esteemed judges on the Esteemed Esteemersons Webby committee.
Rawkin'.
We were nommed for a Webby today, People. in the :
[Dahn-Duhn!] Weird! category!
Woo to the hoo, People! As soon as the voting opens up, you bet we're gonna list the hecky out of those links, so you can get on your vote like a baby stoat.
//Correction: the form letters looked the same to me! it said 'Honoree' not 'Nominee' for Blog cultural/personal. My [embarrassing] bad -Ed //
According to TreeHugger and The Star, global warning is causing mo' and mo' kittens. Humane Societies in the Toronto are reporting that due to milder climates, more cats are outside earlier in the winter. And those cats are gittin' it on.
[reported by Cuteporter Denise S.]
//Note; headline edited for clarification//
Every night when I come home, I read fabulously entertaining blogs like D-Listed, Perez Hilton, Pink is the new blog, Gizmodo, Fark, etc., the list goes on and on. So, it was great to see lil' MouseOver image on D-Listed today: Rawk and Roll, People!
Tewtelly sweet sender-inner-scanner Beth B. Sent this one in, a page right out of APRIL GLAMOUR!
Apparently, when asked how to 'kick the blues', one Andrea Myers said 'Cute Overload'. DOI!
Roger that, People.
Roger
That.
It's like link Central around here, People.
GeekSugar made us site of their day.
"If you don't love it, you don't have a heart." True dizzat.
Um, first, how effing cute is Christian Bale? ssssssshhh... inside voice!
Second, thanks to GQ for mentioning Teh QTE™ in their March '07 issue. Gahhhh!
Nice find, BWey! Say Hi to the turtles.
"Mean vs Cute: While the mean internet was working itself into a frenzy over Britney Shears's haircut, the cute internet was all about Nora, the piano-playing cat. In one weekend, half a million people watched her on YouTube as she played something halfway between Philip Glass and free jazz. She's now been watched more than 1.5 million times."
LINKFEST ALERT! WOOP WOOP!
Tony James was sharp enough to spot this Cute Overload plug on Guardian Unlimited. Here's a YAY for our Brit fans! And get this, the blogger's name is Jemima Kiss. She compiles a "viral video" list over there, and has a soft spot for prickly hedgies. Jemima, we tewtelly understand. Many thanks! Happy to have you in the Peep's Posse.
(Theo out. More snow needs shoveling.)
Where oh where on the blogging spectrum does C.O. fall in the four shperes of audience reaction? In the "Lust" category? nyerhe. In "Indignation"? nyerhe!
According to Valleywag, we're planted firmly in the "Affirmation" sphere! (But dangerously close to 'outrage'!)
Nice submishe, Das Hajjen!
[singsong] We got another shoutout! We got another plug!
Ze Frank, an old hand at this interwebs funnyment biznez, and de facto honorary inductee into ze Order of ze Outrrageous Frawnsh Occent, finally crawled out from under his rock recently stumbled upon our little creation here, and promptly plugged us in his own blog dealie.
Check him out, peeps! He's got toys, he's got Annie the Cat, he's got duckies, and he's even got his own Daily Show. OK... not THAT Daily Show, it's just "the show with zefrank", all modern & ironical with the modesty lowercase, y'know. But don't get me wrong, sports racers; it's good stuff.
This is Theo, link-happy as ever, signing off. I've got some moves to try out. Happy Valentine's Day, you magnificent bastiges!
Big props to San Francisco chronicle peeps for picking up on this IMPORTANT TREND
Thanks fer pointing it out, Daisy H.
ZAC AND RUBY, don't make me send you three million cute O bumper stickers. I will do eet. I too have "...have a very hard time pulling ourselves away from the pages where small bunnies stick out their adorable little tongues." True.
Gracias for the pick! XO from Meg, and sender-inner Samantha!
Check it, People. I wanted to blog on this yesterday, but Typepad was like, tewtelly doing maintenance, so here we go today: our hedgehog pic caught the eye of the Fark editors and chosen for a Photoshop contest. W00t!
Check out the full contest over at Fark.
We've had one other Farking here!
Well Peeps, we made Hallmark magazine, thanks to fabu freelance writer Rebecca Skloot. Poor thing, she has an ADDITICTION TO CUTE and felt compelled to write about eet. Someone's got to do eet. Nice photo shoot, too, Rebecca and Hallmark Peeps! Thanks for a sweet story that so accurately explains the strange phenom... ;)
Check out the article online
Special thanks to Cute Overload frequent commenters Mira/Miss Crisp and Janet Poirrier for their interviews for the article. Nice quotes, ladies. Verrrrrrry Niiiiiiiiiice.
The photo below shows that if you call me "brilliant" in a reasonably-sized newspaper, your chances of getting posted to C.O. go UP!
Liz Spikol pf the Philedelphia Weekly wrote an article called "Precious Matters" (um, exsqueeze me? shoulda called it 'Prosh' Matters) Anywhoooo, the article is all about Liz's obsession with The Qte™ and her adoration for like-minded Peeps. Thank you, Liz ;)
Nice sugar glidin', Liz and "Shackleton".
Gracias to the CBC for puttin' C.O. on the "Top 100 of 2006, What we loved about the year that was" list.
I have to strongly agree with their picks for highlights of the year: The First scene in Casino Royale, Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and The Posh Spice Cher/Chanel wardrobe...
And thanks for sending it in, Eagle Eyes Jessica M. :D
Cute O just won Best Photo Blog in the 2006 Weblog awards OMG PON1ES!!!11
Congrats to tubular chick Raymi who won Best Diarest... Raymi has sent in photos of "Cid" you may recall... ;)
Unofficial Cuteporter Jeanne Moos of CNN asked New Yorkers the very important question:
Who do you think is cuter? A Baby Panda or Shiloh Jolie-Pitt?
Watch the video to see who won...
She also made reference to Cute Overload, w00t! And—[Gasp!] a site called UGLY OVERLOAD!? Uh oh!
Of course for your OFFICIAL What's cuter questions, simply visit the CuteTracker, People.
...[James Earl Jones voice]
Thanks to CNN London employee Kasia K., who suggested the title "Cute Overload" for a CNN story on baby tigers. Below, see anchor Charles Hodson began reading the story with "Cute Overload... in a Hamburg zoo" and then continue with the story of five little lion cubs on their first public outing.
Rokkin'! [Air guitar]
Ahh—Cute Overload and Nobel Peace prizes—two great tastes that taste great together... [See news ticker below title]
Thanks, Kasia... ;)
"You have not truly experienced Cute Overload until it has become a ritual. I dare you." Thanks, Fimoculous!
BBC correspondent Kate Russell gives her latest selection of the best sites on the Internets. Gracias, BBC!
(and sender-inner Sharie M.!)
Dewds, we made it as a "Sick Site" on Maxim this month. How H-O-double-T is that? woo! According to Maxim, you should "sneak on to CuteOverload then sit back and aww like a schoolgirl." OK!
Who knew you read Maxim, Snakeobsen? (Only in the airport, I know. I know)
A super kewl article on Cute O is in this months BUST magazine, People! You must chek out Bust is you haven't already. It's right up your alley. I mean, Screamin' Amy Poehler is really all you need to pick up a copy.
Kudes to Editor Debbie Stoller of Stitch 'n Bitch
[Here's a photo outtake, me as 'Dr. Cute' testing a ham for cuteness factors! I think she passed the test.]
...Well, this week we were. In the "Weird Wide Web" category, "for those willing to take a walk on the wild, wacky and humorous
side of the Web" Niiiiiiiiice, Forbes! And I mean that [weird shifty eyes]
Actor Jason Schwartzman, who obvy groks that the C.O. audience loves Outrageous French Accents will help the attend his new film Marie Antoinette, has professed an 'unhealthy obsession' for cuteoverload! Hey Jase—
BIENVENUE to LE CLUB!
Merci to alert readers Stephanie C., Mozyouth and Angeline V. wrote who wrote in the sweet news. Bon!
*Nice Jewish Boys
HEY Press tyyypes! Take note!
Just like TMZ, here you TOO can incorp "Cute Overload" into your article titles. Like, free of charge!
Thanks for sendin' in, Chief Sister Officer!
(ed. note -- fixed some spelling.)
HEY! that is a great idea for a post! It's the "ultimate perfect entry" for CuteOverload (according to Wired News) For more on this check out the article: The Ultimate Blog Post. Thanks, Wired News! [Now searching thousands of photos for the perfect match for this title]
Thanks for the tip, Troy ;)
OH YEAH, A LITTLE MAGAZINE CALLED 'TIME' FEATURED US TWICE!!!
Time Magazine, I thank you, the kittens thank you.
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