This is a noteworthy event as that's where AnthroCon for the next few years is/was going to be held.

Click here to read the e-article from the Philadelphia Inquirer:

Quoted from The-Last-Unicorn.net:

Now The Last Unicorn will be soon a magical fantasy film - a complete new re-creation of the novel, newly rewritten for the screen by Peter S. Beagle. A worldwide movie event with outstanding actors, fantastic sets and locations, wildlife, and trained animals, seamlessly blended with computer-created, realistic creatures and fantasy worlds. We call it Magical Realism.

Ozy & Millie has been unreachable for the past few days, (at least by me.) Likewise both The Gneech's sites, (Suburban Jungle and Never Never.) Anybody know anything about it?

This story at Ananova tells of a reindeer, who had been part of a Christmas display, who escaped and was shot by a local hunter. Looks like Donner won't be playing anymore reindeer games.

Kinark Outdoor Centre, Ontario, Canada

Get Wild!

This year will be the 5th anniversary of Feral!, and it is shaping up to be the best one yet. With the backdrop of the Canadian forest and the glory of the nighttime starscape, Feral! is in a setting that's unrivalled. If the days' events don't tire you out, the nights are sure to *WOW* you. Feral! is undoubtedly an event like no other!

From alt.fan.furry, The Furry Critic writes: "Well, here 'tiz! After innumerable fits, false starts, hardware problems, software woes, and one partial nervous breakdown, My new site The Furry Critic is officially up and running! I invite everone to stop by and take a look!"

Kerry Packer, Australia's richest man, is negotiating with the Federal Government to establish a $50 million African game reserve in WA.

I apologize for the brief interruption of service, yesterday. Those responsible have been sacked. Well, not really, since I can't sack myself, but it sounds cool.

In a recient update to my previous story, an option to produce the Chronicles of Narnia in movie form has been purchased by Walden Media, owned by Cary Granat, producer of many films like the Scream movies and Halloween.

The Lucknow Zoo, in northern India, has decided to use an old human method of keeping the spirits up and the body warm during winter, by providing shots of brandy to the 35 primates of the zoo each day of the next few months of winter.

The brandy will be mixed with warm water, and dosed out based on the size, age and weight of each primate. The primates have had treats of alchohol before, but not every day. The other zoo animals, however, will have to survive on fat building, heat burning high protein and calorie diets instead of spirits this winter.

The Further Confusion Masquerade is looking for a small group of experienced fursuiters and furry costumers who will be attending the convention this January and would like to serve on a panel of expert judges to help judge the costume presentation portion of the Masquerade.

Just when you thought literature awards were too pretencious for words, comes the naming of the winner of the annual "Bad sex in literature"award. Unlike some bad writting awards, where people purposefully pen purple prose, this takes unintentionally bad works and gives them their do.

Though I don't dare repeat the winning passage, excerpts can be found in the above articles, and a discussion of previous year's winners can be found here, with such romantic phrases as "Liz squeaked like wet rubber" and "Their jaws ground in feverish mutual mastication."

From CNN.com -- In a desperate bid to get numbers of an endangered species of tiger up, Chinese animal keepers have called on the services of Viagra

A grizzly-bear-proof suit of armor will be put to the test
on December 9, according to an article in New Scientist. (includes links to things mentioned below)

The Washington Post today has a nice article entitled Why American loves to hate the mouse -- a commentary about what's Walt's vision is doing now, since his death 45 years ago. And no, he's not cryogenically frozen...