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February 2002

The Tao of the Coca-Cola Polar Bears

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From The Independant:

Polar bears get away with a lot because they're so nicely dressed. Apparently they're every bit as grumpy as grizzlies. You wouldn't want to leave your children near them because they'd probably be eaten in seconds.

But polar bears are good in commercials, so their private life has been hushed up by the studio publicity machine. In advertising, bears are winsome and funny. In the Coca-Cola commercial – the latest in a campaign that's been running for several years now, on and off – the polar bears are great family people too. These bears – Mum, Dad and three cubs – live in a spacey blue-white right world, like the moon with added snow, round a pool with pixilated currents. The computer animation is so sophisticated that their white fur ripples and shines convincingly. You can see every hair, just as if they'd been using an expensive Victorian hair oil.

For the full story, click here:
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=120387

Cows want to be free!

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On Saturday, a cow broke free of its slaughterhouse pen, somehow climbed an eight foot fence, and has eluded Cincinnati police since that time. They've used night scopes, helicopter surveillance, and thermal imaging, but to no avail. The cow has even foiled traps set around the city, taking the bait and running.

Megaplex Gaming announces March 1 deadline for gaming submissions

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The gaming department of Pawpet Megaplex has announced the deadline of March 1st. Pre-register by March 1st and agree to run 10 hours of gaming to get free admission to the con!

FurBid domain troubles: resolved?

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Hiya everyfur

I have been informed by my registrar that the .ws namespace experienced some problems last night, resulting in a bunch of domain names being redirected to Under Construction pages instead of the correct IP addresses. Furbid.ws appears to be back online, for the
most part; the correct IP address has propagated again. Please let me know if you're still getting that Under Construction page. Contact address: [email protected]

I've extended any auctions that would have closed during the domain name downtime. Let me reiterate: the furbid.ws disappearence was in no way related to FurBid's server or connectivity. Nic.ws screwed up our record's propagated data.

If you're still having trouble accessing FurBid, http://furbid.transform.to is still online, or you can access directly via IP (http://198.137.201.181). I apologize for their screwup.

God's Creatures to move to ad-free server

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God's Creatures, the Christian Furry mail group, will be moving to a new advertising-free server effective March 3, 2002. For more information about subscribing to the new God's Creatures, browse to http://ursine.dyndns.org/gc . The move is being made in protest of new policies that moderator G. Raymond Eddy (a.k.a. Angel Bear) finds very disturbing.

Chuck Jones dies at age 89.

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Chuck Jones is reported as having died today at age 89 on the website: http://www.cartoonresearch.com/news.html

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Digitigrade stilts.

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I've recently put photos and a theory discussion online for my digitigrade stilts project. In case any flayrah readers were curious about this kind of thing, I'm submitting it here.

URL: http://www.angelfire.com/d20/roll_d3_for_this

I'm sure others have done this too. But my design is still elegant };>.

Pawpet Megaplex-List Of Planned Events

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As the date for Megaplex draws closer, we'd like to show you some of the events we have planned. Hopefully there is something to appeal to everyone.

Chinese student pours sulphuric acid on endangered bears.

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Read the news story here.
Chinese student "tests bear intelegence" by tricking them and pouring acid on zoo bears. The common belief locally is that bears are dumb, so a university student, Liu Haiyang, set about attacking caged zoo bears to prove humans are in fact the stupider animal.

Wolf Lake may be coming to UPN.

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Sci Fi Wire reports that a deal is in the works to show all existing episodes of Wolf Lake on UPN. Sci Fi Wire article here.

FC Art Show Checks Mailed!

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Further Confusion Art show Checks are in the mail. As of February 16, all
artists checks have been mailed. Thats 19 days, a new record for us. Please
be watching for them. Final figures will be forthcoming but our art show this
year set a new record with over $41,000 in art sales from the show and just
over 100 pieces going to voice auction.

Our huge thanks to Walksfar and the art show staff as well as all the art show
artists, buyers and viewers.

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