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Sully & Minkle by Scotty Arsenault
Thu 24 Jan 2002 - 18:31

Another furry comic hits the web. Sully & Minkle, by Scotty Arsenault, features roommates Sully, a red fox, and Minkle, a blue jay, who live somewhere in New England (disclaimer: not sure about the species). The strip appears three times weekly and has been running for a little over a month. Check it out.

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Proud to be a Furry!
Wed 9 Jan 2002 - 15:23

John "The Gneech" Robey, author of The Suburban Jungle, wrote this editorial about some of the recent press coverage furries have received. The editorial includes "Proud to be a Furry" images that he invites others to add to their webpages.

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Furry Novel Lists
Wed 19 Dec 2001 - 09:51

Another furry novel list has recently made its debut on the web. The new Furry Book List is maintained by Xenia Arrick, aka Swandog.

The original, of course, is the Furry Novel List originally created by Dan Lorey and currently maintained by Dave Farrance (this is the one that gets posted to alt.fan.furry and a couple of other newsgroups twice a month).

The Others: How Animals Made Us Human
Thu 29 Nov 2001 - 09:38

An anonymous reader has requested a review of The Others: How Animals Made Us Human by Paul Shepard. The requestor writes, "Shepard's thesis has to do with the role of animals in the human cognitive economy and (as a secondary point) how the replacement of a dependence on an understanding of nature with a dependence on an understanding of man-made structures has crippled certain important sorts of thinking by impoverishing the source material from which they might be building analogies. He brings in a lot of examples from cultural anthropology to illustrate the principles he describes."

If anyone would like to write and submit a review of this book (or any other book, fiction or non-fiction, that is reasonably related to furrydom or sci-fi/fantasy) we would be happy to consider it for posting. [Note to Aureth: Any comment on how we should handle "review requests" in the future?]

FurNation is back
Thu 15 Nov 2001 - 08:50

FurNation and the various user pages it hosts are back online.

'Nuff said.

CBS ditches Wolf Lake
Thu 1 Nov 2001 - 08:56

CBS is placing its new TV series Wolf Lake on hiatus after its first four episodes averaged a disappointing 6.6 million viewers. More information is available from these stories at Reuters/Yahoo! and Sci Fi Wire.

(Partial credit for this story goes to petercat, who brought it to our attention.)

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Japanese company to produce robot cat
Fri 19 Oct 2001 - 08:05

Aibo the robot dog now has a feline companion. Japan's Omron Corp., maker of Aibo, has added NeCoRo, a robotic cat, to their lineup. According to Omron officials, it can't walk, but "it does what is most important: purring contentedly when stroked, and otherwise giving cuddly emotional feedback to its owner with feline sounds and movements." There will be 5000 of the felines in the initial production run, which will cost 185,000 yen (about US$1530) and will only be available in Japan.

Click here for the story from Reuters/Yahoo!.

Man's Burmese Python Eats His Pit Bull
Wed 10 Oct 2001 - 11:26

A Merced, CA man discovered his 200-pound Burmese python had escaped from its cage, and his pit bull puppy was missing. He soon found them both, in a matter of speaking.

See this story at Yahoo! for more info.

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Yahoo! Animal News
Wed 3 Oct 2001 - 12:39

A suggestion to anyone who likes to follow news stories about animals - bookmark the Yahoo! Animal News site and check it on a regular basis. They get many stories that individually would be worthy of mention on Flayrah, but collectively would be a bit overwhelming if we tried to include them all (though we still welcome submissions of particularly interesting animal stories).

At this writing, the top four animal stories listed are:

Feel free to post comments on any of the above stories.

Project Gutenberg
Thu 27 Sep 2001 - 16:14

Any Internet user who enjoys fiction and literature should know about Project Gutenberg. It is a large body of public domain works, mostly books whose authors have died and whose copyrights have expired, available free on the Internet as plain or ZIPped ASCII text files. At over 3000 books and still growing, it includes just about every major literary classic up through the early 20th century as well as some noteworthy non-fiction volumes.

Some of the authors represented whose books are of particular interest to furry fans are Kenneth Grahame ("The Wind in the Willows"), H. G. Wells ("The Island of Doctor Moreau"), Jack London ("Call of the Wild"), and Rudyard Kipling ("The Jungle Book").

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