Just wanted to announce that the *cute and *audio channels have just been adopted by two loving foster parents.

@Lann has taken over *Cute from UsesProzac and @UsesProzac has stolen taken over *Audio from the (banned) @BoneRemake.

Let's all keep a trained eye on these channels to see what awesomeness they bring. Just keep staring until they start to feel uncomfortable. Then stare some more.

It's very minimal work. Cute is eternally subjective and adorable. Come, take the reigns and ride *cute into that eternal sunset.

Misao to Fukumaru (Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat), a collection of photographs chronicling the ordinary daily life of an elderly woman and her beloved cat Fukumaru, might seem an unlikely bestseller. But perhaps it is precisely the tranquility of Misao’s peaceful rural life that has appealed to so many busy residents of Japan’s crowded and ultramodern cities...

http://www.nippon.com/en/images/i00014/

http://petslady.com/articles/top_ten_american_japanese_pets_got_talent from http://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/15/10-seriously-talented-pets/

I don't come on hear much now just use Reddit is that the case with other people ?

Attention Siftlandia!



Rubydom has been achieved by none other than our dear @UsesProzac. Yeaaaah... that's right peeps. She is also now the official *Cute Channel moderator. We're like, Channel sisters now!

She is a sophisticated music conoisseur, and enjoys discovering and submitting a lot of quality music herself. I have had the personal pleasure of talking to her and getting to know her on the Sift over the years, as others have, and have a lot of respect and admiration for her and her wicked sense of humor and raw honesty, but with a lot of heart beneath it all.



Let us all congratulate her for this milestone. Enjoy! It IS the prettiest gem!



UP's name is Laura, so here's some pretty music to serenade your milestone. <3 <3 <3 You are a gem! (Also mainly because the songs I found titled "Ruby" were downright crappy!)

It exists.

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I couldn't embed this:

http://www.livestream.com/teamcoco/share from http://holycuteness.com/2011/12/20/kittens-on-airplane-livestream/ ...

Currently showing cute husky puppies!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/girliemac/sets/72157628409467125/with/6509400929/

Seriously to funny for words.

I have the flu during Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend for the second year in a row. I am exhausted after cooking, and I am not even working at the moment. I salute all you people who had to work during Thanksgiving/right after Thanksgiving/on Black Friday! I hope you all got to spend at least some quality time with your loved ones, and had a great meal!

My turkey turned out pretty good this year, despite the flu. But it started a week ago, so the worst is over. I am still coughing like a horse(!?), and so is NetRunner. We don't usually get sick at the same time, but this time we did. He got sick about 2 days after me. Our home is filled with joyous noises of coughing and constant nose blowing! Lovely!

I feel for this grasshopper. He either is confused, or has a headache (like me! Coughing all the time sucks!)



Anyway! I promised some cute photos, so if you can take all this syrupy goodness, here are some links!

Warning: Arctic Fox Pups Are Obscenely Cute
http://www.buzzfeed.com/catesish/warning-arctic-fox-pups-are-obscenely-cute

World's Cutest Sleeping Animals
http://teddyhilton.com/galleries/index.php?pgid=7565

Cats Planking! Need We Say More?
http://teddyhilton.com/galleries/index.php?pgid=7205&category_id=newest&category_start=0&category_end=4

Baby turtles vs. strawberry
http://hungeree.com/?p=3548

Artist discovers the 'REAL' Angry Birds - computer whizz brings app birds to life
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059410/Artist-discovers-REAL-Angry-Birds-Kerala-India.html

And the funniest dog story ever!:

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html

Okay, so I went online and found this *quality Craigslist post. I rolf-ed twice, and you should too. The picture of the cat was of it flicking off the camera. Just picture the writer writting an ad on Craigslist. Don't come between man and pet, ever.

"My girlfriend said the cat has to be gone by 12:00 tomarrow. She left a little while ago to hang with her friends. I put all her crap on the lawn and will try my best to find her a new home but if not there is always the shelter.

So what we have here is one mildly attractive yet bitchy soon to find out she is a homeless exgirlfriend. She is somewhat house broken (but i think she is still connected to her mom by the umbilical cord). She is in her midtwenties and is NOT SPAYED (though she usually takes the pill) Lot of life left in this one. She is up to date on her shots and is great with dogs and small children, but does not seem to get along well with cats. She is playfull and bathroom trained (If takeing over every inch of horizontal surface with her stuff in the place is house broken. Then she is the Queen of house brokeness!!!) She has somewhat of a special diet though i never figured it out fully, but pretty much it is dictated by what ever her closes friend of that week is into (Raw, vegan, atkins, hostes) You get the picture. She will be comeing with a whole lot of stuff!! (If it is still there when she comes home, but when iam done here Iam heading right over to the free section so maybe not) There will not be a rehoming fee (As a matter of fact i got $34 cash if you can get her tonight, If you need more we can hit the atm unless you have paypal then we have lots of options)

The main reason Iam rehoming her is becuase she moved in about 9 months ago, and for three months everything was great, but then she started bitching about my cat. My cat has lived with me for 11 years since he was abandoned in my yard at about 3 weeks old, and i had too bottle feed him and teach him how to do everything a cool male should know (hunt, nap, play, hide, chirp like a bird. how to use a litter box!! This was the most challenging as i did not know how to use one myself. That made for some awkward moments) In other words Misdemeanor and I have been kicking it for a long time, and if she thinks I would even consider kicking him to the curb. Well need i say more?

I may put her up for auction on ebay tonight if my lawyer gives me the okay."

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/unlikely-animal-friends-4317/ (embeddedable videos too).

NGC takes a fun-filled look at the stunning bonds animals form with other species, and even prey. A baby hippo is washed ashore after a devastating tsunami and latches onto a surrogate mother a 130-year-old giant tortoise. A lioness plays mom to a series of baby oryx calves, grooming and even fending off outside predators. These unexpected friends defy the laws of nature and demonstrate an evolution in the animal kingdom that would astound Darwin himself.

Let's play a game. We have all been party to fiendish thoughts or actions of nefarious sorts on the site, eh? True confessions time. Self-linkers that slipped through he cracks, ad-hom to private profiles worthy of banning were it not for the patience of both parties(to not act like douchebags or punk-ass bitches, you know who you are), acting like a bitch on the telephone after you heard an actual human voice, etc. etc., you know who you are... tell us some stinky shit you feel fucking ashamed for before you lose the battle of life in a dickhead costume!

You girls don't have to play, yer outnumbered and off the hook...You ladies may talk shit to me as you will or anytime you please.

One of my favorite shit-stirrers, this cat has contributed quite a bit of wonderful content to the site-Go and dig on the man's fetish for rally racing and horsepower, or check some of the twisted human tricks he has been able to find-Cheers mate, you've been here longer than scribblings on French cave walls, bout time. I predict you will eventually withdraw from society with a Japanese sugar-momma.

http://www.videosift.com/member/therealblankman/pqueued
http://www.videosift.com/member/therealblankman/published

Oh, and he's the MC for the upcoming roast of Kulpims as well.....should be fun.

Taking EIT's lead here:

It has come to my attention that some of our beloved sifters were deeply traumatized by my video today. I understand how the sight of vaginas that are not attached to porn stars can be troubling, so to all the gay men born by Cesarian section out there, I am sorry.

As a token of my apologies, I offer you this adorable video of puppies in people clothes.

http://www.videosift.com/video/PUPPY-PARTY

Let the healing begin.

A Cute Overload mentions "Cute Things Falling Asleep" that has many video clips and photographs of various animals and humans falling asleep. Also, the site mentioned "Cute Things Laughing" as well.

the beeb apparently doesn't pony up the embeds, but i just have to share this...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8108297.stm

WAAAAAANT

Russian scientists say that Moscow stray dogs became much smarter. The four legged oldest human’s friends demonstrate real smartness such as riding the Moscow metro every morning to get from their suburban places of living to the fat regions of Moscow center. Once they arrive to the downtown they demonstrate different new, previously unseen for the dog skills. Those skills can include “the hunt for shawarma” for example, the popular among Muscovites eastern cuisine dish. This hunt scene can be seen as this:

Regular Moscow busy street with some small food kiosks. A middle-aged man buys himself a piece of hot fast food and walks aside chewing it without a rush. Then just in a second he jumps up frightened - some doggy has sneaked up on him and barked out loudly. His tasty snack falls out from his hands down to the ground and the dog gets it. Just ten minutes later, on the same place, the teen youngster loses his dinner in exactly the same manner. The modern Russian dogs are on their urban hunt.

“This method of ambushing people from their back is widely exercised by Moscow dogs”, saying A. Poiarkov, working in Ecology and Evolution Institute of Moscow. “The main point here is to define who would drop the food scared and who won’t, but the dogs are great psychologists they can do it better than us”.


Full article and adorable pictures here

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2462