That’s so cute I could puke a rainbow!

This seemed like it would be a nice break after the rather morbidity that is Officer Bobby’s life. (Speaking of, I forgot to give the link to that last time, so here it is: Negative, Ghostrider. And I specifically recommend the post about the Angel to give context to what I wrote about earlier.)

I was Googling ‘unicorns in love‘, when I came across this blog, which is similar to Boing Boing in a few ways. It’s got massive advertising due to it’s popularity. It’s not personal the way many of the other featured blogs on this site are and it has won a lot of blogging awards over the course of its existence. Most recently, in October, the Blogger’s Choice Awards gave it Best Animal Blogger, Best Entertainment Blog and Best Blog of All Time. It was also awarded Best American Weblog earlier this year in March. What’s generating all this buzz? Kitties!

And duckies, chicks, bunnies, puppies, and anything else that has a small ear to head ratio. It started around two years ago; a website devoted excluively to posting pictures of the most adorable creatures around. (A notable feature of the site that differs from Boing Boing is that although this site appears to be run by one person, the founder, Megan Frost, it seems that the majority of the content is user provided. There’s even a map on the website of ‘cutelogists’–people that considering finding cuteness a priority in their lives.)

There are even cute rules, although they don’t function in the way that traditional rules. Instead of being necessary conditions—you must meet this criteria to be cute—they are sufficient conditions. Which is to say that if an animal meets one of these rules they are cute by default. So far there are 37 of these rules. The top five are:

1. Putting you paw up is cute.
2. Looking helpless is cute.
3. An inquisitive look is cute.
4. More than one species of baby flopping around is cute.
5. Fish eye lens on a baby animal is cute.

Sad or cute? This is rather bizzare, and I found it under the categories tab of the site. The images that it led me to were confusing because it was generally a tough call between cute or sad, but usually they were just sad. And ultimately I found them to be annoying. Actually the whole site was eventually too saccharine for me. But if your Seasonal Affective Disorder is acting up again this is a great, cheap, if not temporary, cure.