It's Friday—aka cute cat video time! Here's an adorable collection of kittens chillin' on their owner's area rug. Two of them become startled when the rug moves and subsequently perform the most inadvertently cute acrobatics ever. Watch inside.

This dog knows what he's doing. As the baby starts crying, the dog starts to sing the baby back to sleep. Will it work? You'll have to watch.

One day, a small, cute-as-a-button cat auditioned for the role of "Kitten Wearing a Tiny Hat" in (I presume) a commercial. Unfortunately, a bigger cat—and impromptu casting director—named Speedo was NOT HAVING IT. The cute/sad/funny video is inside.

What could be weird about some Polish guy going all Siegfried and Roy with a lion cub? Maybe its the way they play fetch, or maybe its how they almost make out. But without subtitles, we really have no idea.

This video is a great example of why cats have nine lives. Watch to see what happens when this itty bitty kitten named Fynn checks out his reflection in the mirror.

This kitten is so hungry that she prays for just a morsel of kibble.

Oh boy—Michael Calderone is... teasing the upcoming Mark Leibovich story on the hellish "journalism-alternative" sweatshop that is Politico. On Twitter. The big story is about Mike Allen, as all of these things are.

Unless you like hurricanes, there's a pretty good chance that the weather has completely bummed you out right in time for the work week to begin. We recommend two things to get your groove back: kitties and boobies.

PA woman convicted of animal cruelty for selling "Gothic Kittens." The kittens hated Robert Smith.

From a ProfNet query: "I'm looking for someone who could talk about the effects of global warming on the kitten population. Several shelters have said they've seen a large increase in the number of kittens born in the past two years."

Keith Gessen cannot adopt the adorable foster cat we got him, because he is apparently leaving the country soon. So it's available! She's spayed, housetrained, about 6 months old, and v v friendly. So if you'd like your very own Lolcat, email us.

Kittens: they just won't go away. You must look at them! They and their assorted cute friends—puppies, monkeys, duckies, hippopotami—have taken over the internet, and have already become a leading addiction among men and women alike. Cute cravings must be fed, productivity be damned. A baby bear licking a swan! A parakeet wearing a tutu! A kitten roller skating on the back of a pink stingray! The Observer predicts a "cuteness surge." This will be our downfall. Our supposedly sophisticated elites have allowed their cutie wootie nom nom nuzzle muzzle urges to become their drug, their porn, their shame:

When we first saw this picture on Cute Overload we were like, "nah." And then we looked at this picture of everyone's favorite embattled former child star and started to see a resemblance. We think this is such an important issue that it should be put to a vote.

I've kept my mouth shut for the past two weeks, sluggishly phoning in my twelve daily items ever since I first gave notice (the extra not-funny ones? Those were me). But now it's my last day after two years of this ridiculousness, the last time I will wake up at sunrise so that I might get a leg up on Jann Wenner's sly move to bring Rolling Stone to the studly orgy that is Rio. Well, no more of that. Go be gay, Jann. I care not. In fact, I'm happy for you. I'm a happy person right now. I don't even want to stab Ann Curry!