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ConFuzzled 2008 photo galleries
Tue 1 Jul 2008 - 12:00

Thanks to all the folks who put their ConFuzzled photos online, as well as the ConFuzzled staff themselves!

ConFuzzled!
ConFuzzled! Photo by Tiger Tom.

ConFuzzled 2008 video gallery
Tue 1 Jul 2008 - 12:00

Thanks to all the folks who put their ConFuzzled videos, as well as the ConFuzzled staff themselves!

Mediaphile for January-March 2008
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

A whole bunch of media links from this quarter!

Channel 4 documentary
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

Revisiting a story mentioned in the first ever Furtean Times, interest in making a furry documentary initially died down at Channel 4. However in January and February of this year a renewal was seen as media persons trampled into forums and furmeets for youth-orientated channel E4.

Convention news for 1Q 2008
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

Recent news from conventions near and far.

Yiff!: the musical, Ursa Major Awards and the passing of Steve Gerber
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

Yiff!, the new British musical hoping to take London for a fuzzy whirlwind ride has updated it's cast and crew last January for it's latest showcase reading at the Kingshead Theatre. New characters include Samba - a lion cub, ishi_qweek - a dolphin, and Robodog who's... well, a robot dog. New songs range from the mundane to the rude ("The Ultimate Yiff" a good example.) Videos of both stage readings to date can be found on Tim Saward's YouTube channel. yiff.org.uk

Ursa Major Awards

The Ursa Major Awards - an annual award given for work in the anthropomorphic fandoms - has opened for final voting to decide the 2007 winners! Those up to grab the award include mass media and fandom regulars fighting side by side. Those to look out for include Ratatouille, Doctor Who, Blotch, Lackadaisy, Newshounds and Ozy & Millie.

Steve Gerber

Steven Ross Gerber, the legendary Marvel comic writer best known for creating Howard the Duck and more recently Stewart the Rat, has passed away in hospital while awaiting a transplant for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Sources say he continued to work until he died on February 10th, 2008 - aged 60.

Furtopia hacked
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

Free furry web-hosting group Furtopia has been hacked and "destroyed" according to the website's administration. The website purportedly fell into the hands of splinter group LOLfurries, whose website was later suspended and reinstated by it's host a few days later. The forums were the only area of the website affected, the hosting remained unharmed.

Yiffy.tk launch new image board
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

Yiffy.tk, one of the furry fandom's largest web portals and databases, has launched a new furry-orientated image board. Named Ychan, this mature-art only image board attempts to take on the giant that is fchan - either that or it hopes to replace the Yiff Image Board, which closed in February 2007.

FA, fchan and e621 attacked
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

Furry art communities Fur Affinity, fchan and E621 all went offline just prior to Christmas following an early morning distributed denial of service attack (commonly called a DDoS) against the three websites. Fur Affinity was back online by the evening of the same day, fchan was running with degraded functionality for roughly 24 hours and E621 was back online a few days later. The source of the attacks remains unknown.

Furry guru
Sun 23 Mar 2008 - 12:00

T.D. Wolf: Hello Tori this is T.D. Wolf your polythiest fur dude. I first off want to thank the trolls, that's right, THANK the trolls. It was them in the beginning that had made the furry population so popular for even though their advertisement of us is bad it allowed the intelligent ones to actually look up of what the fandom is. If it wasn't for them many of us would of stayed in hiding instead of took step and stood up for what we believe in. They complained saying that we shouldn't be out here spreading the word when in fact they themselves our the reason we stand out. Our population has been growing and its thanks to them and their prejudice. I may have just stated the obvious but its one more thing we can laugh about.

Tori: Indeed it is true that all the bad attention the furry fandom gets can have positive effects! Not only does it give us something to all have a titter at (like the infamous CSI episode), but it has created a good number of good and bad furs! There are the bad, that will see the shows and go "Hey, sex in animal costumes! Kinky!" and start going around calling themselves a fur without knowing what it's really about; the more intelligent ones will see the episode and look it up on such handy resources as Wikipedia and wiseGeek. Trollers themselves are a world of contradiction and hypocrisy, but that's just more to joke about!