Look At This Cat!

February 3, 2009 5:48 PM

Look At This Cat!
I made Look At This Cat because I figured there are a lot of cats out there that people should look at. And I don't see why that has to involve like crazy Web 2.0 crap when all you really need is some pictures of cats and the ability to say to yourself "hey, look at that, that is one great cat right there".

Cat submissions more than welcome. Suggestions and feedback, likewise.

And yes, that is good-old-fashioned courier, and no that is not an accident, and that should probably sum up the general design aesthetic of the whole thing pretty succinctly.

(The fact that I built this one day after getting a couple of kittens is pretty definitely a coincidence.)

posted by cortex (16 comments total)

You can never have too many places to look at cats on the internet. I and my cats approve.
posted by rtha at 5:58 PM on February 3, 2009

Too many cats!
... by that I mean, not enough cats! Your site must grow, but where can you harvest more cat pictures? Hmm, think... think... think... think... AHA!

P.S. Muffin is awesome. And I am SO allergic!
posted by not_on_display at 6:50 PM on February 3, 2009

Smells like cat food
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 6:23 AM on February 4, 2009

Catty CAT cat.
posted by cashman at 9:39 AM on February 4, 2009

OH SHIT LOOK AT THOSE FUCKING CATS I LOVE THEM ALL
posted by Metroid Baby at 11:29 AM on February 4, 2009

Heh, this is great. Well done, cortex.
posted by Effigy2000 at 9:21 PM on February 4, 2009

I have a cat. I will take pictures of him and send them to you, so that others may look at him and say, "Goddamn. I sure am glad I looked at this cat."
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:55 PM on February 5, 2009

I pee my pants when I look at this and read the cor-text.
posted by heyho at 7:52 PM on February 6, 2009

The captions are as awesome as the cats.
posted by catlet at 2:02 PM on February 11, 2009

Am I feline or not?
posted by grouse at 9:09 AM on February 14, 2009

Aw, you let it lapse?
posted by dmd at 9:08 AM on March 25, 2011

Man, like a year ago. It wasn't intentional, I had a cascade of sadness after a mail forwarding failure and some miscellaneous fuckupery that led to me not finding out that the domain had expired until it was well into "it will cost a lot of money to get back" territory. So now some squatter has it and I haven't had the heart to reboot.

If nothing else I'll rehost it on a subdomain or something, though I've thought about trying to make it a "submissions welcome" sort of tumblr thing too.
posted by cortex at 9:33 AM on March 25, 2011 [1 favorite]

If you brought it back, then people could look at this cat.
posted by rtha at 10:45 AM on March 25, 2011

We could just keep posting cats in this thread until Cortex shuts it down...
posted by dmd at 12:14 PM on March 25, 2011

That's a beautiful cat, dmd.

This is Linus, may he rest in peace.
posted by rtha at 1:08 PM on March 25, 2011

I think this is the first time I've seen a domain squatting landing page in a non-English language. So weird. I guess the people of Japan really like cats.
Google translate link
posted by exogenous at 2:29 PM on December 18, 2011