Webby Award for CuteOverload!

On Sat, 05 May 2007 23:09:41 +0200, polonca12000
yodeled:

Kreisleriana wrote:

W00t! My favorite blog won a Webby award!
http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/cu...by_entry_weird

Of course it's in the "Weird" category, but if a daily diet of
cuteness is weird, I don't want to be-- not weird. :P

I consider CO in the same essential, sanity-saving category as RPCA.
I need my fix every day.

BTW, two INSANELY KF-inducing leetle tuxedo bitties are featured
today:
www.cuteoverload.com




Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

I'm so glad CuteOverload won, they really deserved it! But I have no
idea what about it is weird.


Me neither-- but like I said, if that's weird, I don't want to be
*not* weird.

Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

On May 5, 2:50 pm, wrote:
Kreisleriana wrote:

You don't think 1's look like exclamation points?

I do think that the shift key theory seems reasonable in this case.
But I am also old enough to remember b1ff!

By coincidence, yesterday a friend of mine sent me a link to an article
about various kinds of netspeak, and the writer had this to say about
1337speak and exclamation points:

High-End Example: p43ar my l337 sk11lz0rz!!!1!!1
Translation: You should be fearful of my powerful computer hacking
abilities.
Fear = p43ar; elite = l337; skill = sk11lz0rz.

Notice also the exclamation points include intentional errors simulating
the furious smashing of the 1 key while holding shift to get the ! symbol.
Someone really going crazy on the !!!!! often misses a shift press in
there somewhere.

So it seems that, at least according to this guy, both factors are at
work.

The article also discusses the "lolcats" phenomenon, which we're all
familiar with even if we don't all know that term (I didn't) - it's the
pictures of cats with "IM IN UR X Ying UR Z" on them.

Read mohttp://www.zerosummind.com/2007/05/l337-katz0rz.html

Joyce


LOL because I didn't know that "lolcats" was a term of its own. Here's
a page with about a zillion different lolcats-type photos on them.
(The vocabulary in some of the captions isn't fit for polite company,
but most of the content is family-friendly.

Donna and the two lolcat-models-in-training, Captain and Stanley

Oh I love CuteOverload. I'm glad it won. It's just so satisfying
looking at incredibly cute things.

I found this link on CuteOverload http://www.birdchick.com/adventures/rabbit/index.html.
It's about disapproving rabbits, very OT, but had me chuckling.

Dewi

On 8 May 2007 00:45:19 -0700, Gabey8 yodeled:

On May 5, 2:50 pm, wrote:
Kreisleriana wrote:

You don't think 1's look like exclamation points?

I do think that the shift key theory seems reasonable in this case.
But I am also old enough to remember b1ff!

By coincidence, yesterday a friend of mine sent me a link to an article
about various kinds of netspeak, and the writer had this to say about
1337speak and exclamation points:

High-End Example: p43ar my l337 sk11lz0rz!!!1!!1
Translation: You should be fearful of my powerful computer hacking
abilities.
Fear = p43ar; elite = l337; skill = sk11lz0rz.

Notice also the exclamation points include intentional errors simulating
the furious smashing of the 1 key while holding shift to get the ! symbol.
Someone really going crazy on the !!!!! often misses a shift press in
there somewhere.

So it seems that, at least according to this guy, both factors are at
work.

The article also discusses the "lolcats" phenomenon, which we're all
familiar with even if we don't all know that term (I didn't) - it's the
pictures of cats with "IM IN UR X Ying UR Z" on them.

Read mohttp://www.zerosummind.com/2007/05/l337-katz0rz.html

Joyce


LOL because I didn't know that "lolcats" was a term of its own. Here's
a page with about a zillion different lolcats-type photos on them.
(The vocabulary in some of the captions isn't fit for polite company,
but most of the content is family-friendly.

Donna and the two lolcat-models-in-training, Captain and Stanley


Isn't the message of lolcats that all cats are lolcats? Potentially,
anyway. There would hardly be so many damn lolcat pictures
otherwise.

I almost always like the "tech support" cat types-- "OH HI I FIXED UR
WHATEVER" ones.

Other favorites of mine:
"I IS A SERIUS CAT
THIS IS A SERIUS THRED", Monorail cat, the various Jabba the Hut
iterations (usually a fat red tabby), and "I has a flavor (kitten
licking his paw."

Beyond lolcats, there is also the "LOLrus," the hero of the Bucket
Saga. Those are pictures of a sad or indignant-looking walrus with
captions that indicate he is searching for a lost or stolen bucket.





Now I'm well on my way to wasting another hour.



Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh

Make Levees, Not War

Dewi wrote:
Oh I love CuteOverload. I'm glad it won. It's just so satisfying
looking at incredibly cute things.

I found this link on CuteOverload http://www.birdchick.com/adventures/rabbit/index.html.
It's about disapproving rabbits, very OT, but had me chuckling.

Dewi

That's hilarious! Thanks for the link.
Best wishes,
Polonca and Soncek