The cutest sites on the web

There's a lot of bile, hate and stupidity on the internet. Fortunately, the resulting stress, irritation and existential angst caused by this can be overcome with the power of cute. (It's a bit like the Power of Love, only without Frankie Goes To Hollywood.)

Cute Overload
While some sites, despite their high percentage of cute content, still feel the need to include elements of humour, Cute Overload is exactly as described - a massive four-year archive of videos and pictures of kittens, puppies, pandas, gerbils, chipmunks and anything else small and fluffy, all doing very cute things. Simple, innocent fun.

Kittenify
Recently publicised in the Metro newspaper, Kittenify is a JavaScript bookmark that will replace all the images and most of the adverts on any page with pictures of fluffy kittens posted to Flickr. Everything's better with kittens.

It's amazing how much serious news is improved by the addition of kittens.
The most convenient way to use it is to drag the active JavaScript link from the Kittenify site up to your quick bookmarks toolbar. This means that whenever you feel the need for kittens, you can just click on the link and add them to whatever page you're reading.

The Daily Puppy
Cute puppy pictures, every day. There's not much more to it than that. It's enough to make even hard-line cat-lovers make alarming cooing noises.

Icanhascheezburger
The site that bought LOLcats - pictures of cats with amusing captions - off the messageboards and into the public eye, Icanhascheezburger lets users create, rate and comment on LOLcat (and sometimes LOLotherspecies) images. It's become a firm fixture in the internet's collective consciouness and has spawned books, t-shirts and plenty of other sites.

Visit Icanhascheezburger for your regular fix of LOLcats

Canine lovers may prefer Ihasahotdog. Overconsumption can cause fans of all species to inadvertently use LOLspeak in daily life. Fortunately, someone made a translator.

MyLifeIsG
Not so much cute as moving, heartwarming and sometimes genuinely inspiring, MyLifeIsG describes itself as "a place to share your everyday successes". People post about everying from passing exams to surviving cancer or coming out of the closet to accepting parents. There's a lot of teenage love but the site's overall tone is refreshingly positive.