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Thanks to bill number ACR 175, which was passed by the State of California, December 14, 2002 has been designated as "Day of the Horse".
The text of the bill may be read here.

Be sure to check out a listing of upcoming
"Day of the Horse" events, starting on December 7th.

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Combining a love of poetry and quantum mechanics, a British writer is using sheep to create a living form of "random" poetry.

The members of a flock of sheep had words spray painted on their backs. As the sheep move around and come to rest again, they form poems. The quantum physics aspect refers to the uncertainty of how the sheep will arrange themselves.

A New York performance artist is doing a similar project using cows.

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An article on the BBC's news site discusses how much similarity there is between men and mice.

I was quite taken with the quote from one scientist: "We share 99% of our genes with mice, and we even have the genes that could make a tail."

I wanna tail.

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Let me invite you to attend "Furst Night 2002," a furry gathering held on the coat tails of the Pittsburgh First Night Celebration on December 31, 2002.

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Well, it wasn't good press, but it could've been worse...

A Canadian magazine called Shift ("Canada's Technology and Entertainment Magazine") (yeah, I'd never heard of it either) had their annual "100 best web sites for 2003" in their November/ December issue. Now, when I see "Entertainment" I immediately think "tabloid". But, holding my prejudices back I slogged on...

...until I came to the listing. Number four under the category "bizarre" (as I thought), with a snap-shot of the front page.

Synopsis reads: "eBay for furry-animal 'toon fetishists: Use this site to bid on the erotic squirrel prints you've never known you've always wanted. For the true connoisseur, only the creepy lifelike, full-body animal outfits will do. And if you can convince your lover to wear one of those, you're the man, dog. Cute, fuzzy, sexy dog."

Meh. Could've been worse. Mildly humorous, a bit biased, but I won't get inflamed about it.
A quick message off to the editor, pointing out the URL they have is old was all I was provoked into >:-) Hay, they did send me two free copies of the issue it appears in >:-)

--Aatheus

Trying to find Sabrina Online and getting TCP errors? After the fourth
day of my ISP telling me "The system was unable to communicate with
the server," I tried the old address. Apparently, Eric W Schwartz is
moving to another server. The December comics can be found at --
http://www.coax.net/people/erics/Sabrina.htm
...until sabrina-online.com is back ahem online.

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This fits into so many categories, but...

UN Iraqi weapons inspector Jack McGeorge likes whips and chains and other ties that bind. In fact, he's a founding member of the Washington DC area Black Rose society and a former chairman of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom. So, when the Washington Post discovered that he may not have a degree in weapons inspecting, they reported instead that he was a pervert.

The furry angle to all this is a very amusing interview that CNN did with Dan Savage discussing the situation. I guess we made a heck of an impression on Mr. Savage as somehow he and Anderson Cooper of CNN started discussing Plushophilia and furry conventions. You can read the transcript on CNN's web site.

Read more about why you should be outraged by the Washington Post (and not Dan Savage).

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FC2003 Newsletter November 2002 Edition

Index
1. From the Head MadHatters
2. Hotel Reservation Cutoff Date Announcement
3. Pre-reg Cutoff Date Announcement
4. Con Book Submissions Cutoff Date Announcement
5. Final Call for Panels and Panelists
6. Important Times
A. Dealers Room
B. Artshow Hours
C. Registration Hours
7. Rabbit Tracks Zero: call for announcements
8. Call for Gophers

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Both Science Fiction and the word of toons are connected. Michael Cassutt explores one of those connections in his latest column on Science Fiction Weekly. It's also a bit depressing in its view of the state of animation nowadays. For the full article, go here: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/cassutt.html/

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2002 Anthropomorphic Recommended Reading/Viewing List
2nd Update - December 1st, 2002

The 2002 Anthropomorphic Recommended Reading/Viewing List was first posted on November 1st. This is the second update, adding most of the new recommendations sent in. (There are problems with some of them; see below.) There were complaints that the 2001 Recommended List got confusing with too many separate updates, so this year all the additions are being added to the same List.

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So would you like your furry poetry to be read? I would like to announce a new Furtopia Poetry Contest.
Any fur may apply and does not have to be a Furtopia member. Users may post there submissions or comments here: http://cgi.furtopia.org/cgi-bin/ib311/ikonboard.cgi?act=SF;f=14 under "poerty corner".

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Some folk are reporting that they cannot look at Yerf's website -- it just reports ether unavailible, or it's web address as being unresolvable. One fur (me) off of CableSpeed of Maryland and another fur using Bellsouth is unable to resolve this URL, thus connect to it. (A check via Sam Spade also is unable to resolve it) It is unknown if there's something going on with Yerf's DNS provider, Global Crossing, and that ISP's

affiliation with spammers.

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The staff of FurNation would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving Day!

And for all the furries out there who would like to save a turkey this year here is a great Tofu dish:

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According to the New York Times, scientists want to create a new kind of mouse-human hybrid by inserting human stem cells into a mouse embryo. The resulting creature would have both human and mouse cells.

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Many 'suiters wish those smarmy reporters would step inside the big, foam head and see what hot, hard work it is. Seth Stern has stepped up to the challenge and decided to walk a mile in another man's large, cartoon paws. It takes style and grace to pull off being a floppy eared canine, and our reporter friend goes through the full mascot bootcamp with sporting pros before trying out his skills in front of the crowd. "I'm actually disappointed that there's no one else to entertain", he notes as he finished up his last assignment in Mascot U, a Halloween parade.