Fur Affinity is looking to update their Terms of Service and Acceptable User Policy this coming March 15th. Everyone who uses the service should look this over. read more »
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""Fanfiction." Few words are as capable of inviting so much scorn, incite so much passionate debate over copyright, or bring on such a case of the shuddering horrors. When the gaming community talks fanfiction, it always seems to revolve around anecdotes of petty rages between nutty authors, atrocious grammar, substandard characterization, and any number of kinky tales that mate Pokémon trainers with seemingly every species of Pokémon available." read more »
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"The cat is just one of a zoo of beasts made by artist Ji Yong-Ho out of nothing but second-hand rubber.
Powerfully muscled sharks, lions and rhinos also feature in his collection, with their flesh fashioned from strips of old tractor, bike and car tyres.
Each one takes three months to make and can sell for up to £52,000." read more »
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The extremely popular BoingBoing blog has mentioned furry fandom numerous times - usually doing the typical jokes, but perpetuating the negative stereotypes nonetheless. Recently they've started to do special Feature Articles, and Lisa Katayama has written a pretty good one, "Fur Fun: The inner lives of furries", an interview with fan and fursuiter Josh Strom. read more »
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"Standing on her hind legs Isis Valgen is much taller than me -- the horns help. Her mouth moves as she says, "There are not too many gazelles like me running around."

In a room behind us at the Crown Plaza in Addison, a crowd cheers as a line of giant furry animals take turns to limbo under a pole. A spectacular sight but not an unusual one at the hotel over the weekend, where more than 700 furries converged for the second Furry Fiesta. Quite the scene: wolverines strolling arm in arm with leopards; stuffed animals at the turntables; a field mouse browsing the art gallery; a mute sloth read more »
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"Reader Christopher was down at his local animal shelter in Long Beach, California recently when he noticed something a little odd.

The kennels there are mostly sponsored by companies to help keep things running, and most of those companies are pet-related. Dog food, cat grooming, that sort of thing.

Except this one, which is sponsored by video game developer Naughty Dog, the team responsible for the Uncharted and Jak & Daxter series." read more »
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"As of today, we are making a significant change to better accommodate our guests. After research due to high demand for the event, we have concluded that our current venue is unable to provide adequate space and accommodations for the convention. We have decided it is in the best interest of everyone involved that we relocate the event to a larger more accommodating venue.

Today, it is our pleasure to announce, The Hilton Indianapolis North will be taking over as our venue for IndyFurCon 2010. The new hotel houses larger spaces for our events, dealers, and more places for our guests to c read more »
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