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Tomorrow: 9/9/09 – A Day Without Cats

by Meg on September 8, 2009

GET READY!

Cats everywhere are taking the DAY OFF tomorrow to honor Urlesque’s Day Without Cats. It’s time other ani-pals got a chance to shine (without kitteh attention-hogs stealing all the Internet limelight.)

So brace yourselfs, tomorrow you won’t see Nora playing the piano. You won’t see Spaghetti Cat or Winston. You won’t even see a cartooned Simon’s Cat. You.may.die.

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Top 3 Excuses for no posts yet this morning:

by Meg on June 29, 2009

1. “The bartender wouldn’t let me leave.”
2. “It takes a lot of time to dump a body.”
3. “Your wife didn’t have my breakfast ready on time.”

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What’s YOUR excuse, Tali K.? Excuses carefully culled from Keepers of Lists.

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Attention 2010 Calendar sender-inners!

by Theo on June 28, 2009

Great news, Peeps. Workman Publishing is busily printing the 2010 Cute Overload Calendars, and preparing them for shipment. Yay!

As promised, folks who submitted featured photos will receive a free calendar.

Trouble is, we can’t find some of you! If you submitted photos for the calendar and your name appears on the list below, we’re looking for you. Please contact us at “Workman2010 [at] CuteLabs [dot] com”.

Pug Pictures

Alun & Juliet
Bryan H. (Cable One)
Daniel P. (DSL extreme)
Erica G. (Indiana U.)
Holly H. (Whirlpool)
Jasmine B. (AOL)
Jen L.C. (Gmail)
Jennifer G. (Ajilon)
Jessica D.S. (UIUC)
Kate G. (Hotmail)
Kristin D. (Laika)
Mark H. (UNH)
Sarah S. (Henrico)
Scarlett R. (Comcast)

Topanga is non-plussed by her calendar appearance taken by 2009 Sender-Inner Absolutely Small.

LIVE! From The IBKC Fundraising Headquarters…

by Meg on June 16, 2009

It’s been pretty quiet around here this afternoon and our phone bank volunteers are starting to get a little bored.

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RING phone, RING!

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Rrrrrrrinnnng!
Hey, there we go… I’ve got this one ladies.

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Rrrrinnnng… Rrrrrinnnnng
Almost…almost…

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Rrrrrinnnnng… Rrrrriii.

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Pledge online today! Visit the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee Fund raising Page for the Humane Society’s Dog-a-Thon Walk for Homeless Pets.

Both the photos AND hilarious copy made possible by the fine folks (especially Staci) over at Itteh Bitteh Kitteh Committeh.

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The More You Know: 3 Easy steps to new avatar art!

by Meg on June 12, 2009

Hey! Did you know that you can EASILY make your very own avatar (what’s an avatar!?) by grabbing one of the images from the Top 4 stories above? Here’s how!

1. Whenever you see a Top 4 image you like, simply right-click on it
2. Save the image to your desktop
3. Update your image in your account! (Don’t have an Account? Get one)

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Why thank you, Ms. Poehler

by Meg on May 26, 2009

Picture 7During Jimmy Fallon’s recent “Internet Personality Test”, he asked Amy Poehler “What’s your favorite website beside your own?” Her answer? [drum roll]
Us truly!

The feeling is müche, Amy. We wouldn’t miss a single episode of Parks and Recreation or SCARECROW BOAT. Don’t even get me started on Arrested Development. Amy is also in chahge of the site SmartGirlsAtTheParty

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And Now, Our Grand Prize Weiner

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on May 8, 2009

Congratulations to yesterday’s winner of Dolphin Discovery: Holly K.

Whew, we’re beat!  What a whirlwind National Pet Week this was!  You peeps bombarded us with jokes, rhymes and trivia–over 950 entries in all four contests!

That's just a tail, you perv.

And our grand prize winner, selected at random from all entries, is Toni T., whose clever entry, from the caption contest, went like this: Doggie:  “Where did your ears go?!” Birdie:  “Where did your wings go?!”

Toni wins our Grand Prize: A new Nintendo DSi game system and all four Discovery Kids games! Congratulations, and thanks to all who played, and special thanks to 505 Games!

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Trivia Answers:

  • Day of the Dolphin (a lot of readers alerted us to another movie titled Sex and Death 101, and we would have accepted that as well)
  • Neil and Tim Finn
  • Pinball
  • False Killer Whale

Photo credit: BartShore

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Win the Ultimate Pocket Pets!

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on May 1, 2009

Listen up, peeps!  May 3-9 is National Pet Week, so starting next Monday, 505 Games and Cute Overload challenge you to win one of four cute new Discovery Kids’ Games for the Nintendo DS:

  • Puppy Playtime: Train your pup for exciting rescue missions!
  • Kitten Corner: Raise and train your customized kitten!
  • Pony Paradise: Wash, groom and accessorize your pony!
  • Dolphin Discovery: Teach your dolphin awesome tricks!

Grand Prize: A new Nintendo DSi game system and all four Discovery Kids games!

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How To Play
Monday through Thursday, check C.O. for a new contest each day:

  • Caption contest: It’s your turn to make us laugh
  • Limerick contest: There once was a cat from Nantucket…
  • Haiku contest: And now, here it is, your moment of Zen
  • Trivia contest: NTMTOM lobs you softballs as usual

One winner will be chosen randomly each day, with Friday’s grand prize winner chosen from all eligible entries, so play every day for your best chance to win!

Awfully important-sounding official rules with lots of impressive legal words like “eligible” and “Zamboni”

  • Rule one: Entries in each day’s contest must be received by 9 PM Pacific Time.
  • Rule two: One entry per e-mail address, please.
  • Rule three: One winning entry will be selected at random from eligible entries in that day’s contest.
  • Rule four: Grand prize winner will be selected at random from all eligible entries.
  • Rule five: Contest open to all except employees of CuteLabs, 505 Games, their immediate families, robots over twelve feet tall, and that jerk down at the ice cream parlor who won’t give us extra sprinkles even though we ask very nicely.
  • Rule six: There is no rule six.
  • Rule seven: Winners will be selected by NTMTOM, using a top-secret method involving a Ouija board, sixteen left-handed hamsters, and a Zamboni (see, I told you).

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Get out the stoat

by Meg on April 20, 2009

What do these phrases have in common?

“It’s like a blankie for Adults”, “Better than porn”, “best antidepressant in the WORLD. “, “This site one-ups therapy.”

They’re all comments about Cute Overload over at the PEOPLE’S CHOICE WEBBY VOTING which is happening right now ’til April 30. If we’re gonna have any chance at winning, we need YOU to help!

Here’s how to vote:

1) Sign up for an account at the Webby Awards

2) Click the Website Ballot

3) In the “Connections” section, go to the “Weird” category and Vote for Cute Overload!

Stoat (and prosh tongue) by superhoopsa.

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Feedback on the Redesign Feedback

by Meg on April 20, 2009

THANK YOU for all your help with our revised design, People. It’s Beta testers like you that make this site so much bettoi. We received a ‘tock-load of emails with helpful pointing-out pictures and comments.

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To sum up, your feedback was overwhelmingly positive of the revised design. Visits are also up 25 to 30 percent, so all in all, SCHWEET!

What you DON’T like:

  1. The site layout on Firefox 3 on a Mac! [We are working on this!]
  2. Lack of hamsters in Pannnts / Lake Tinkle [Hmmmmm, I guess the page loads TOO FAST for you to see the BG image. Shoot!]
  3. RSS got broke! Eep! [This has been fixed.]
  4. The header is tooooo tall! and where is the chick favicon!? [we're working on the second one...]

What you DO like:

  1. Commenting Avatars
  2. Post image size increased by 12% [Redonk]
  3. Top 4 features

A Puffer fish redesigns himself! puffer fish on lake nasser, by catfeet2. Also, get a load of this shot!

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