December 2011 Newsbytes archive
A little late this month because I hit the wrong button submitting it the first time. Whoops.
Fred: Poop-throwing chimps lead to human intelligence.
Higgs Raccoon: Turtle embryos ‘talk’ egg to egg.
Equivamp: Nature’s ant-repellant is produced by spiders.
GreenReaper: Osprey devours lion in massive foodchain shakeup.
Higgs Raccoon: Utah duck hunter shot in buttocks by his dog.
GreenReaper: Does PayPal hate FA users? No, just bestiality and digital porn .
GreenReaper: Edinburgh Zoo critics claim imported pandas are ‘commodities in a primarily commercial exchange’.
GreenReaper: Inkbunny is suffering a broken switch.
Rakuen Growlithe: In India a mass electrocution kills 140 flamingoos.
GreenReaper: The IB problem affected many sites, and was fixed 4 hours later.
dronon: You call that a Christmas tree? Now THIS is a Christmas tree!
GreenReaper: You can now download the latest furry podcasts straight from our sidebar.
GreenReaper: Edinburgh’s pandas have arrived.
GreenReaper: Flayrah’s LJ feed is out; problems on their end. Try RSS, Twitter or Facebook!
crossaffliction: What the heck is this nine nominees crap, Annies? And no Winnie the Pooh, but Cars 2? … Okay, I’m just mad I’m wrong.
crossaffliction: I'm so mad I can't even count; that's 10.
Fred: The leaproach; a cockroach that can jump fifty times its own body length.
GreenReaper: Russians plan woolly mammoth clone.
crossaffliction: Help Rango get a Best Picture nomination, win a free DVD!
Rakuen Growlithe: In Japan the oldest dog in the world has just died. It was 26 years and nine months.
GreenReaper: Hungry polar bears resort to cannibalism.
Fred: A coming ‘Wind in the Willows’ musical is announced. Does anyone remember the 1998 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' opera, which crashed & burned?
GreenReaper: Ants for Living - an animation. [siskmaret/reddit]
GreenReaper: Rats empathize with trapped cagemates (report).
GreenReaper: Cat raises almost as much money with its toes as a year of furry conventions.
GreenReaper: We now have a feed to support Google’s “Editor’s Picks”. It's star-based, so consider content quality when rating stories.
GreenReaper: Authors will also be named on Google News if they link their Google+ profile in their Flayrah account and mark themselves as Flayrah contributors on G+.
GreenReaper: DailyFurBlog added to the footer.
GreenReaper: New York police halt ticketing of costumed characters. [Rapid T. Rabbit]
Fred: Orphaned baby sloths? Awww, cute!
Rakuen Growlithe: Previously stray cat becomes third richest in the world after inheriting $13 million.
Equivamp: Previously, I reported that FurNation was down, although with a placeholder explaining its downtime. Now, however, there is only a "Site offline, no cached version available" message from its server, CloudFlare.
Fred: Anthropologists find that the age-old conflicts between humans and snakes has affected the evolution of both.
GreenReaper: England will start trial culls of badgers to combat bovine tuberculosis next year.
Fred: Some spiders have not only eight eyes, but hundreds of ears.
crossaffliction: Kung Fu Panda 2 director Jennifer Yuh Nelson on becoming an animator.
GreenReaper: Meat-poor Madagascans turn to local lemurs for food after taboos break down.
Higgs Raccoon: Baby fur seal sneaks into house, then settles down to nap on the couch.
Equivamp: Did you know you can Nyan any website...even Flayrah. Go on, do it. You know you want to.
Fred: Institute of Health report: Research on chimpanzees is “not worth the pain”.
Higgs Raccoon: Bearded dragon plays game on touch-screen phone.
GreenReaper: Editors’ picks are working on Google News. I've also added a bar to draw attention to in-depth features and reports.
GreenReaper: Does species determine your dating?
Twilight Shadow1: The results of the Summer 2011 International Furry Survey have been posted.
Rakuen Growlithe: Pigeons can sort groups of objects from highest to lowest.
GreenReaper: WillFC have religious protesters? [tip: Jim/SpinDizzy]
GreenReaper: The NatGeo furry episode airs 9PM Eastern Jan 3. [cloudchaser_s]
dronon: Merry Christmas, everyfur! :-)
dronon: And just in time for the holidays, here's a new story fromPlonq! (Writer Guest of Honor at MFM 2000.)
dronon: In William and Sly 2, a Flash-based exploration platformer, you play a fox searching for mushrooms and pages from a lost diary.
Fred: Cheetah has died - if he really was Cheetah.
Fred: Australian crocodile steals, guards 'his' lawnmower.
dronon: What if Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin, Calvin and Hobbes all grew up and became enemies?
GreenReaper: You can now comment on In-Fur-Nation posts hosted on Flayrah.
Fred: Better information about "the chimpanzees that played Cheetah".
Higgs Raccoon: Chook (Adelaide zoo's lyrebird and YouTube star) has died.
GreenReaper: Tickling: not just for chimps.
GreenReaper: Warnings: not just for humans.
Fred: A recent Los Angeles Times movie-industry blog reveals that the Israeli distributors of Puss in Boots were not sure that title would be popular there, so they renamed the movie The Cat from Shrek.
About the author
crossaffliction (Brendan Kachel) — read stories — contact (login required)a reporter and Red Fox from Hooker, Oklahoma, interested in movies, horror, stand up comedy
Formerly Wichita's only furry comic.
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One other feature I added last month was a hidden header link to Flayrah's Google+ page.
That link isn't up top for now because the page has no content. Google+ has no way of importing RSS feeds, nor a write API. Given how Facebook just ditched the Notes RSS import feature, I have to wonder whow high it is on Google's list.
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