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Cats rule the internet. Think about all the funny cat photos and videos that infest your IM conversations, Facebook walls and e-mail forwards from mom -- our feline overlords have sneakily solidified themselves as a staple of the interweb humor we love so dearly. Don't believe us? Salon and Entertainment Weekly have also had the same startling realization. Heck, we even awarded them with a lifetime acheivement honor in the 2008 year-end Urlies. But whether you're a bona fide cat lady who loves it all, or someone who can't stand the over-population of cats on the interwebs, we can all agree that cats need a break. Urlesque hears your cries for help.
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Several of our friends across the web have bravely agreed to stand up beside us and support the effort: besties such as Asylum, Best Week Ever, Dumb As A Blog, Lemondrop, PawNation, PetSugar, Popbytes, PopEater, The Presurfer, Rocketboom, Snuzzy, Tosh.0 Blog, ZooBorns, Zoomdoggle... do you think you could handle the challenge? (Update 9/4: 11 more sites have joined the ban including I Has A Hot Dog, Laughing Squid and NPR! And the Wall Street Journal has taken notice of our movement. Update 9/8: 15 more sites have joined the ban including Cute Overload, and we've had more media coverage including MSNBC and more!) See the final ban list for participating sites.
Do you want to join the ban? Sign the "petition" to show your solidarity or send us an e-mail.
During the day of the ban, Urlesque is taking things one step further. We will blogging exclusively about an animal of YOUR choosing! It's up to you, Internet, to pick which other furry friend you'd rather read about on 9.9.09. Vote in the poll below. The poll
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9.02.09
By Kelly Reeves
I'm so torn between bunnies and rodents at the moment that I keep voting for both.
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9.02.09
By Larry Sheldon
No.
The dog would never allow it.
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9.02.09
By Cheshire Kitten
Sillies, chickens and turtles aren't furry! You're funny.
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9.02.09
By Rishi Satsangi
No, I think the regular internet should be disabled and we should make an internet composed entirely of cats for the day.
* NOTE: Many cats were harmed in the making of this here internetz
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9.02.09
By Avi
how dare you I love cats, just to spite you I will post a picture of my cat on 9/9
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9.02.09
By Lynne Demeter
Are you out of your collective minds?
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9.02.09
By Woolbutt
How about an internet without URLESQUE. Up your A** URLESQUE.
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9.02.09
By lala
this whole thing is dumb - this is not ambitious - cats rule =P
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9.02.09
By meowser
Everyday is Caterday!
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9.02.09
By Duke
Rush Limbaugh loves cats. I like cats. Leave the sites alone that have cat videos. Cats are fun animals.
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9.03.09
By Billy
I have had Cats my whole Life. They are Cheaper than Therapy and better than Homocide. just my opinion,I may be wrong. Billy.
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9.03.09
By Squittercat
Noooo!!!! Cats are superior! No other animal deserves our ubiquity... this madness must be stopped! http://squittercat.blogspot.com
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9.03.09
By non
You've got to be kidding me!
The internet is mostly full of porn, but you don't see A Day Without Porn anytime soon.
Like porn, cats are a vital part of the internet. Take cats away from the internet, even for a day, and you might as well just google Google.
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9.03.09
By chippy
Worth mentioning is the parasite (protozoan Toxoplasma gondii) that has a symbiotic relationship with the cats and infects humans brains. This then effects out behaviour and society at large.
Science: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749.abstract
Which leads to LoLcats, LongCats and Keyboard cats! They are controlling our miiiinds!
http://whyamilookingatapictureofyourcat.wordpress.com
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9.03.09
By KidKobun
09.09.09
The day ceiling cat watched no one.
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9.08.09
By Flash
I feel a boycott coming on.
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9.03.09
By thelittlefluffycat
This post makes me very sad.
It makes me want to put my tiny paws over my nose, or even to stretch very far up, and put them on someone's knee while looking imploringly at them with enormous green eyes, begging for a consoling skritch behind the ears, and a little bit of that ice cream.
I feel that perhaps I have stumbled (we don't stumble, but you know what I mean) on an incidence of failed human training, or even some poor feral human raised without proper socialization.
Cats of the internet, we *can* prevent tragedies like this.
Blog. Blog as you've never blogged before. The humans are counting on us to save them.
LFC
www.thelittlefluffycat.com
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9.03.09
By Reva SIsk
We havethree cats in our home and love allthreee Why re thet taking cats off the internet somepeople love czts better than any other pet Why are they doing this
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9.03.09
By Rindles
New write in candidate: Ducks!
According to the Laugh Lab (http://laughlab.co.uk/), ducks are the funniest animal. So a day without cats might give them the opportunity to take over the internet! If not ducks, then at least llamas. Who doesn't love the Llama song?
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9.04.09
By LONGCAT
I'm gonna post so many f*ckin' cats that day.
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