"One day, when he was naughty, Mr Bunnsy looked into Farmer Fred's field and it was full of fresh green lettuces. Mr Bunnsy, however, was not full of lettuces. This did not seem fair."



-- From Mr Bunnsy Has An Adventure



These words start Terry Pratchett's latest novel, The Amazing Maurice. It is his first novel "for young readers in the Discworld universe". It is also his first novel where most of his main characters are intelligent, talking (though not anthropomorphic) animals.

PawPet MegaPlex Hotel now has hotel booking available

The moment everyone was waiting for.. The PawPet Megaplex Online
Registration and Hotel Reservation is now ready. Book your hotel rooms
now.

More details can be found at:

http://pawpet.org/megaplex/

The cover story of the January 2002 issue of National Geographic Magazine Wolf to Woof: The Evolution of Dogs. It's an excellent article, with some wonderful photographs. More information about the article is available here.

The Rabbit Valley Comic Shop (formerly Mailbox Books, before being forced tochange their name) is having problems paying their legal bills. There is a special print sale going on now to help pay off this debt. See the website for details.

Scientists have seen our universe, and it's a pleasant shade of pale turquoise. The scientists have added up all the wavelengths of all the light of the universe, and averaged out, it comes to a nice shade well suited "for teeshirts, or home decorating". They're calling the colour "Cosmic Spectrum Green." If you don't like it, just wait. As the universe gets older, the spectrum average will go from blue to red.

The Ananova web site reports that newspaper and TV photographers in the Netherlands, in their eagerness to get a photo of a rare snowy owl (popularized by the recent release of the Harry Potter movie), may have hounded it to death. Complete article is at http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_493596.html

After reading this article I decided to contact the webmaster and made a topic on his forum. It ended up with me, together with a fellow fur, to be asked for an interview (neat).

The webmaster did quite some research after that and did a follow up on the article. It has become rather large, but I hope, rather interesting.
Remember it's an interview. You might think of things very differently, but I think he made that clear enough it's not the final word on the subject of furryness ;)

I suggest you read it.

Some comments after the article (and some minor errors I cleared up. Like the YiFF term ;)
discussion topic

Oh, and if you don't agree with it, don't eat me. I taste bad ;)

Greetings,

Jicin

The ConFurence Group is *this* close to having the long-awaited Dealers' info packets and Artists' information forms ready to mail out, along with the latest Progress Report to let you know how our next convention, ConFurence 2002 is coming along.

We have been busily updating our address database and stuffing envelopes for the last two weeks, and are just about ready to drop them all in the mail (probably on Saturday 1/12).

(To those who plan to participate in the Masquerade, please read to the
end of this message. It contains new information vital to helping your
performance work without a hitch.) [Ed: Click Read More... to see
the full announcement.]

Attention all furry costumers! Do you have a new costume that you're
dying to show off to the world? Then we've got just the place for you to
do it.

Further Confusion will continue the tradition of previous years
and plans to have a costume Masquerade and all students, be you fursuiters
and furry costumers, are invited to enter. This event will be made
complete only if you decide to enter. If you've got the perfect costume
to show off, or if you have the perfect performance in mind for your
costume, then this is your chance to show it to all the attendees, and
maybe win an award.

At least Brazillian furries will have a place to talk and a websearch engine for their websites.

FurryBrasil was created by Brazilian furry fans, and everyfur can join them to help and enjoy the services offered by FurryBrasil.

the Forum (phpBB).

News portal

and Search Engine

Unfortunately FurryBrasil cannot offer free webspace yet.

the URL for FurryBrasil is www.furrybrasil.com.br

As an example of the intellegence and trainability of pound dogs,
Tucker, a puppy abandoned at the Toronto Humaine Society last year has risen through the ranks of Canada's detector dog program exceptionally fast, with an "impressive" learning curve. He's now working at an Alberta prison as a drug sniffing dog.

Before anyone starts to think that Disney is going to dump their 2D tradtional style in favor of 3D, they might want to look at the new trailer for "Lilo and Stitch" which is
right here.

Salon reports that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, anchored in the North Arabian Sea, has its own mascot, Bully the Moose. "I put on the moose suit to spread cheer," says Lt. Cmdr. Terry Chauncey.

Residents in rural areas of Malawi are terrified as hyaena attacks have been attributed in the deaths of half a dozen people since Christmas. This almost unheard of situation has been attributed to overcrowding of habitat, lack of food, even witchcraft. The government doesn't know what's driving the animals to kill and eat people, but plans to send rangers to hunt them down.

I know this isn't furry related, but as an adopted kid, Dave Thomas was sort of a hero for me. The Wendy's founder, and sometimes commercial star, passed away today (Tuesday) of liver cancer at age 69. Besides being a "hamburger flipper", as he would say, he also spent his time and money encouraging kids to stay in school and raising public awareness of adoption.