A Little Birdie Told Me…

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on May 19, 2009

A little birdie told me. … that the official Cute Overload icon is back where it belongs!

Look up! Goodbye, un-cute “W” icon (you know we love ya, WordPress), welcome back, cute chickie icon!

Yaaaaaaaaaay!

{ 72 comments }

1 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:02 am

I See it Mr Monkey I see it.
I am ready fro my Banana Daquirie.
WOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!

2 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:03 am

I dun see eet. :(

3 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:04 am

First I lloked in all the wrong places and then I looked in the right places and the url is a total LOL!

4 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:04 am

Oh, and can I haz a ‘nana split instead? Plzkthx.

5 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:04 am

Brinn to the left of the url!

6 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:04 am

and on your Tab!

7 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:05 am

That’s where I expected it to be, but I still see the boring old Internet Explorer icon.

8 Deedee 05.19.09 at 7:05 am

Nope, not here.

9 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:06 am

:cry:

10 Deedee 05.19.09 at 7:06 am

I, too, have the boring ol’ IE icon.

11 Barcaxavi 05.19.09 at 7:10 am

It’s simple. Don’t use IE. I see it :-) !!

12 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:10 am

Refresh your screen

13 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:12 am

Refreshingks are nawt helpingks.

14 Annie 05.19.09 at 7:13 am

Do’h you are correct it doesn’t show up in Explorer but it does in Firefox.
SO get thee to the firefox people hurry!

15 Annie 05.19.09 at 7:14 am

Opps I forgot to log in as Kittyadventures under Explorer!

16 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:17 am

I dun think the tech peeps would be too happeh about me downloading Firefox on my ork computer. :P

17 KeithCu 05.19.09 at 7:17 am

Press Control-F5. Refresh doesn’t force a download new images, only the page.

18 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:17 am

Another reason to use firefox and not Explorer..
Anyone in safari?? OR other?

19 kel 05.19.09 at 7:19 am

Still get a W when I try to add a cuteoverload bookmark to my iphone home screen :( The wordpress icon looks way too much like wikipedia, which is not so cute.

20 Von Zeppelin 05.19.09 at 7:23 am

How sad for you IE users that you can’t see the little birdie. Behold the power of Mighty Firefox! Apparently that is the browser of choice for the happy little orangutan.

21 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:23 am

Control F5 doesn’t change it either Keith anyother suggestions.? TEHO NOMTOM???? Hwere are the Mods when you need them Sheesh as if this wasn’t way more important tha their nine to five job LOL

22 cheesybird 05.19.09 at 7:24 am

Yaaaayyy!!! Little birdy’s back!

Brinnann, they on’t let me do’nload Firefox at my ork either. ;)

23 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:26 am

SO then Cheesy bird how are you seeinks the birdie then are you at home?? or did you do a stealth download

24 brinnann 05.19.09 at 7:29 am

Cheesybird, that’s a little something from the CuteTalk Forum: We decided that “work” was a dirty word, so our mods set up the auto-replace to change it to “ork” anytime you type it. We have quite a few hidden auto-replaces. My favorite has to be the one for “winter;” it’s “Poobumstinkyhead.”

25 JJ 05.19.09 at 7:30 am

TG!

26 Annie 05.19.09 at 7:38 am

Sigh I even tried clearing my temp files and cookies but no such luck.. I am abandoning the Explorer and going back to my favorit coolest browser Firefox. except at ORK where I use Explorer too for my apps!

27 cheesybird 05.19.09 at 7:39 am

@ kittyadventures, yep, I iz at home. (Supposedly studying… Ha!)

@ brinnann, I love it! I think I may auto-replace “Poobumstinkyhead” for “winter” in my daily life too. How long will it be before they commit me, d’ya think?

28 Von Zeppelin 05.19.09 at 7:40 am

As Saruman said to his evil minions, “Don’t ork too hard, guys.”

29 essensual 05.19.09 at 7:41 am

lol…Von Zeppelin Yeah, I need to join the herd. But but I also love IE8 beta…

30 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 7:42 am

LOL Von Zepp

31 john in co 05.19.09 at 7:51 am

I missed. I smiled when I saw the chick instead of the W.

32 Shibi 05.19.09 at 7:53 am

Oh, how I’ve missed u, CO icon!!!! Even flying Mr. Hamster Pants is cuter than the “W” of WordPress!!

33 Katie Kat 05.19.09 at 7:58 am

Yeah, that “W” sign looked too much like the Volkswagen emblem in my little version in “favorites!”

34 Kiragirl 05.19.09 at 8:00 am

I dun theenk so

35 Metz 05.19.09 at 8:02 am

What’s fun is when you start using the Cute Talk words in your every day life, just the other day I said “This banana has been a cold one”! People looked at me so strangely.
They were very magenta until I realized I’d said banana instead of Spring.
What? You’ve never said “Squee” or “Prosh” or other CO words in a conversation?
:-D

[Never not once not me no way! - Ed.]

36 Lars 05.19.09 at 8:11 am

Vocabulary word for the day is … favicon.
That’s what the little yellow chick is an example of.
Most browsers remember the favicons of sites you’ve visited … if you want to see the little chick instead of the W, you may need to empty your browser’s cache …

37 January 05.19.09 at 8:11 am

Really special…sweet.

38 brinnann 05.19.09 at 8:27 am

Lars, I did that, too. Is it not allowing the change because CO is my homepage?

39 Metz 05.19.09 at 8:32 am

I should note here, just because I can, that last night I told my daughter “I saw the CUTEST picture yesterday.” and she says, “What was it?” and I said, “Well it was on Cute Overload and..” and she interrupted saying, “Well of COURSE it was on Cute Overload, where ELSE would it be?”
(eyes misting) Sniff, I’ve taught her well.

40 brinnann 05.19.09 at 8:45 am

Metz, I can totally see her doing that, too! And I bet she did it in her HSM/Valley-girl voice, didn’t she? :lol:

41 Metz 05.19.09 at 8:47 am

Brinn, complete with the hair toss. :-D A diva I haz raised it.

42 Not That Mike The Other Mike 05.19.09 at 8:48 am

Hi folks. Internet Explorer doesn’t handle favicons as sensibly as Firefox, Safari, Opera and others (this is odd when you consider that Microsoft originated the favicon method in the first place).

Here’s a page of useful information about favicons: http://www.make-a-favicon.com/favicon_FAQs.htm

Perhaps the upcoming version 8 of Internet Explorer will finally get favicons right. We can only hope.

43 Estelle 05.19.09 at 9:17 am

yaaayyy!!! ^_^
I was wondering what was up with the W
when I first saw it, it reminded me of that WonderPets show because their logo thing is a “W” like that. hahahah.

44 Dara 05.19.09 at 9:29 am

nope…still an un-cude W.

45 superboymom 05.19.09 at 9:54 am

Yay! My duckie is back . . . gotta love Firefox!

And the baby monkey is adorable . . . I guess he is prolly a chimp.

46 superboymom 05.19.09 at 10:01 am

Metz: Just the other day I used Cute Talk with my teenage boys and their friends.

I said, “Look at the hammie . . . he’s all . . . honk shu!” They all looked at me like I was from Mars.

Its fun when the Mom has some new vocab and she can outwit the young ‘uns!

47 charliewabba 05.19.09 at 10:14 am

@superboymom, metz, et al – I was traveling with my sister last summer, and we left some chocolate in teh car and when it melted, I said “Oh noes!!!!”

When she gave me her baroo look, I said, “that’s more serious than just one ‘oh no!’”

She agreed.

48 brinnann 05.19.09 at 10:19 am

Charliewabba, didja hafta explain “baroo” to her as well?

49 Metz 05.19.09 at 10:20 am

@superboymom & charliewabba *nods* Yep yep! :-D

50 charliewabba 05.19.09 at 10:23 am

I didn’t tell her she had given me a baroo look, but she has dogs – she’d get it.

51 catloveschanel 05.19.09 at 10:56 am

poifect! on IE

52 AuntieMame 05.19.09 at 11:13 am

Mine still has the stoopid Internet Exploder icon, too. :(

53 Theo 05.19.09 at 11:19 am

Ctrl-Shift-F5, AuntieM. See if that clears it.

54 beeline4felines 05.19.09 at 11:28 am

firefox rox. i lurvve the chickie favicon,

[...and I ♥ your screen name. Nice! - Ed.]

55 Kristabelle 05.19.09 at 11:39 am

This thread is killing me!

I have definitely inserted cute words into my vocabulary. Sqwerls are sqwerlios… Or sqwerlio iglesias. Tails are definitely tailios. I have surely said Oh Noooes! I have more, but my brain is blanking today…so tie-tie. ;)

56 AuntieMame 05.19.09 at 11:40 am

Nope. But we’re still using IE-freaking-6.0, so there’s a whole slew of stuff it can’t do.

Oh well. I have Firefox at home, so at least it’ll be right somewhere…

57 kittyadventures 05.19.09 at 12:20 pm

Oh I have gone completely over the edge not only cute words but I see little emoticons in my head and wish I could make them appear in the air as I speak. because haven’t you all just wanted to add a winkie guy to a tongue in check statement. not to mention the little emoticon rolling on the floor laughing!

yeah I know completely gone over the edge!

58 Pelly 05.19.09 at 3:52 pm

Wat a SWEET lil skronched up puckerer!!! (SQUEEEEEEEEEE!)

59 spb 05.19.09 at 6:49 pm

Help!!! I don’t see the little birdie ANYWHERE. Where is it supposed to be?? I don’t even see any “W” that you guyz are referring to. Won’t someone please help poor leetle ole me?? (Wahhh, wahhh)

P.s. I’m using IE7

Gracias. And danke.

60 spb 05.19.09 at 6:51 pm

By the way… that’s the cutest orangatangerine I’ve ever seen. What a ham… so to speak.

61 the absent chick 05.19.09 at 7:00 pm

I’m using IE8 and this is my story (cha-chunk)

CO shows up with the blue W where the chickie oughta be. I deleted the old bookmark, rebookmarked, and still I get the W. So I deleted the bookmark again, closed IE8, opened IE8, typed in the full official CO url by hand (oh, the agony), and — still I get the blue W.

So no chickie for me, evidently. (Could my machine be storing the cuteoverload page in a cache somewhere, so I would have to find that and delete it?)

62 Theo 05.19.09 at 7:15 pm

I can’t get the chickie favicon to show up in Internet Explorer, either. At all. Any version.

My Firefox works a treat, though, and I’m betting that Opera, Chrome, and Safari all handle it OK. ;)

63 berthaservant 05.19.09 at 7:24 pm

Welcome back, duck.

64 danielie 05.19.09 at 7:24 pm

IE just can’t seem to handle teh cute. :(

Another reason for me to switch over to Firefox. My friends will never let me forget this.

65 the absent chick 05.19.09 at 7:29 pm

well, I dumped out my cache (ooof! felt good — it was really full) and that got rid of the old blue W. But as you say, Theo, the chicklet fails to appear.

Well, curse you, Firefox aficionados, and your free socialist software! I’m sticking with IE, because, well **bursts into tears** I just love capitalism and all the good things it gives me! In return for, uh, money and such…

66 Theo 05.19.09 at 7:35 pm
67 the absent chick 05.19.09 at 7:39 pm

Bolshevik! Communist! Minnesotan!

68 Theo 05.19.09 at 7:41 pm

thass RIGHT.
Now gimme MONEY$!

69 Anne Boleyn 05.19.09 at 7:51 pm

Yep, right there on Safari. Pass the daquiries or however you spell them.

70 Kitteh Toez 05.19.09 at 9:02 pm

*points* i see it in my Google browser favs!! :3

71 jenbrooke 05.20.09 at 6:38 am

Boooh!
I have the cutie icon on my bookmarks list and when I’m on *this* commenting page it’s by the URL and on the tab, BUT when I go back to the main blog page, I get the boring W back by the URL & on the tab. I have Firefox, and I refreshed and such too.

Why is someone picking on me?!?

72 Andrew 05.20.09 at 6:05 pm

*squee* I thought I was hallucinating when the little duckie disappeared. Then I was sad when I realized it was actually replaced.

I’m glad it’s back now! Love that you caught that guys! I’ve been dreading the ‘W’ for so long now.

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