A survey by a British mobile phone company discovered one in three users have mistakenly sent text messages to the wrong person, often with bizare and embarassing results. From a fellow who wanted to message his friend for the number of a girl he liked, and ended up sending it to his current girlfriend, to explicit messages being mistakenly sent from daughter to mom, mis-paging a message isn't so uncommon.
A company spokesman said, "Most people dropped clangers because they flicked through their mobile phone book and clicked on the wrong name. For instance users who had meant to send to Dan or Danielle click on the name before which in many cases is Dad."
And you thought 'maving' on a muck was embarassing...

2002 Recommended Furry Reading List - 1st Update

The 2002 Recommended Furry Reading List was first posted on November 1st. This is the first 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. The next update will be posted on December 1st, which is also when nominations open for the 2002 Ursa Major Awards.

This second annual Recommended Furry Reading List has two purposes. Firstly, it is open for all Furry fans to recommend the best anthropomorphic movies, TV series, novels, artwork, games, etc. that they found during 2002. It is for fans who want to know what anthropomorphic movies, TV series, novels, etc. are worth looking for. The List is open to anyone to add to, so if you know of any 2002 Furry movies or comic books or comic strips, etc. that are worth recommending, please send your recommendations through the end of 2002 to:

*Woof!* I am WhiteShepherd a friendly and sometimes...often chatty white dog. ;) I am the head the admin of Furtopia.org . I often get the question emailed “What is Furtopia?”. So I am here to explain the “what”, “where”, and “why” of this furry service.

Well, after a week of fighting with the new server, cutting the tip of my finger on a cooling blade, a bad CD, blown hard drives, and other events I am proud to say that FurNation looks rock solid once again!

One of the judges in the Independent Games Festival has just posted a glowing review of Furcadia. Worth having a peek here.

As the last few tests have been promising, I'll be running my furry music stream each Wednesday night from here on. The stream runs from 6pm to midnight, Pacific time, and features all furry-composed music. The format is dance, trance, techno, soft rock, and ambient, although comedy will be interjected occasionally.

The stream links are:

• http://shout.virtualhermit.net:8000
• http://shout2.virtualhermit.net:8000

The home page is http://www.virtualhermit.net/taurnet_tunes

--Aatheus

The Web page for the Ursa Major Awards has recently been updated.

The Ursa Major Awards, hosted by The ConFurence Group, is the annual "Best Of" awards for Anthropomorphic works of literature and art.

Nominations for the Ursa Major Awards will be open starting December 1, 2002, and going through January 7, 2003.

According to the New York Times (free registration may be required), deer populations have exploded so much that they're throwing the ecosystem out of whack, eating gardens and peoples' shrubbery, and creating hazards in the roads.

You may now make hotel reservations for ConFurence 2003 via Hilton's online reservation system at Hilton.com for ConFurence 2003. The 3-letter group code for our event this year is "COC"

Standard rooms are $102 per night, and Jr. Suites are $135 for up to two people. Third and 4th guests are an additional $20 per night.

Stay tuned for an announcement at LosCon 29 (Thanksgiving Weekend) regarding the "Furry Homesteading Act of CF2003." More details later, but keep your hotel reservation confirmation number handy to be designated a "Furry Homesteader" with special benefits.

Freeola.net has pulled the site Crush...Yiff...Destroy.com from their servers. Viewed just prior to its deletion, the site said it was in violation of the Terms of Service from Freeola.net. When the site was checked later in the day it gave a 404 error (site does not exist).

Crush...Yiff...Destroy is a half-satirical, half-serious look at furry fandom through the filter of 'furry is all about fetish sex'. One article of note is their depiction of Mitch Beiro's 'wedding' to Minerva Mink, as viewed by several Disney animators.

A student at the University of Toronto recently interviewed several local furries. The article which she wrote from those interviews was published in UofT's student newspaper, The Varsity. It can be found here

Please note that you might have to subscribe to The Varsity to view the article; their "unsubscribe" feature seems to work correctly.

Yesterday (7th November), the Sun reported that a "vampire squirrel" had been terrorising the residents of Knutsford, Cheshire.
The "ghastly grey fiend" attacked six people before fleeing to the safety of a fence. "You don't expect that from a squirrel," said one victim, whose ankle was "lacerated".
However, Today's edition updates the story. The squirrel has been shot dead while attacking the grandfather of one of his victims.

CNN reports here that a squirrel is violently attacking children and adults in the British town of Knutsford (yes, that is the actual name of the city). Many parents are keeping their children indoors as a safety precaution.

The most recent attack was a bite-grapple from the squirrel on a toddler's forehead. The child lost quite a bit of blood and the bite required immediate hospital attention.

Some correlational data suggest that exotic animals endangered by the lethal harvest of profitable folk aphrodesiacs may be getting a lucky break due to the success of Pfizer's Viagra. Hunting of a few key species (including Canadian harp seals) used in treating impotence has dropped considerably over the past decade, though this link is still questionable.

The full story by CNN appears here.