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Created by Vulpes and Swiftfoxfire, Anthrocon now has an  “Official Unofficial” iPhone app:

 

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AC Information provides information about Anthrocon 2011 including:

* General information (Dates, addresses, etc.)
* Dealer list and Dealer Locator
* Countdown
* Area Map

You can download it through the App Store here AC Information

Author: toonces
Jinxtigr serves up a sinful story of high-stakes lust and Skip gets a little emotional about it being our tenth show. Toonces is a little unnerved by the book club’s first hetero story, but as always, there is always real estate for diplomatic relations between the breeders and the queers.

We hope you enjoy this week’s meeting!… Read more..

Find the full article here: The Bad Dog Book Club » Podcast

The contents of this Podcast may have adult language and adult themes. The content is not produced by Furry News Network, but is posted for your convenience.

...and one of the things they're looking for are furries in addition to wolves, vampires, adult babies.

Let's see who's gonna bite this time around.

Author: mbulsht

I’ve been browsing Ponychan more and more lately, and have started to forgo my normal modus of lurking for a more active role as a regular poster. And one of the things that has brought me to this mindset is the recent trend of threads, mostly in the /oat/ board, where people have posted very inspirational messages to each other, words of encouragement, and advice.

Another recent rash of threads has exploded across /oat/ and /chat/ about the current state of the fandom, wherein people have discussed what it means to be a Brony, the ideals of Respect and Tolerance, and how to combat hate.

And while I was reading these, I realized that we have some amazing writers in our fandom. There are people who post things on Ponychan with prose that rivals some of the greatest fanfic writers I’ve seen in my lifetime.

And it’s not just Ponychan, either. We have some really amazing fanfiction writers getting their stories featured on Equestria Daily as well.

So this is my tribute to them. It will be a weekly post each Monday entitled “Quotes from the Fandom.” I’m not going to discuss the matters they talk about, nor will I preach their ideals. I simply want to post their words here so that others may read them, take them in, and acknowledge the skills of some of the best writers I know. I will post quotes from anyone in the MLP Fandom, from Ponychan posters, to fanfic writers who have their work up on Equestria Daily.

So here’s this week’s Quotes:

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“What I’m trying to say is that you can overcome anything even if your family, your friends, heck the world, is against you. You CAN be anything you want to be. I won’t lie to you: It’ll be hard. You’ll rage. You’ll cry. You’ll probably feel like you’re alone. You’ll probably feel like giving up. Just don’t. Don’t give up and keep going. All these hardships in your life are just going to make you a stronger, wiser person. Once you overcome all those obstacles, you’ll feel like a Boss. Trust me.”

-PinkieShy (ponychan)

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“Do not think sadness is all that different from a physical wound. If you get hurt, you just take care of yourself *properly* and it will heal on it’s own clock. Sometimes you need stitches. It’s ok, that will heal too.

You aren’t as fat, ugly, or awkward as you imagine. You won’t realize that until you look back in several years at pictures of yourself, in a way that is unfathomable to you now and think, “I really was that awesome”.

-Anonymous (ponychan)

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Beautiful words to live by.

I’ll see you next week with more Quotes from the Fandom!

-Ben Sims
(mbulsht)

Find the full article here: BronyShow

Will Osama bin Laden become a Moslem Joan of Arc?
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in January of 2011, a group of biologists and conservationists in Nepal moved a tiger from a rehabilitation facility in Chitwan National Park to a new reserve in Bardia National Park.

Fitted with a radio collar, the tiger—named Namo Buddha—represented a unique opportunity for researchers to closely follow the behavior of an introduced tiger. Unfortunately, this same technology led them to a grisly discovery a few short months later.

Just today I was recommending the incomparably wonderful animated film A Town Called Panic to a friend, which it occurred to me to wonder: what progress has been made on the project the makers of that film (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar) are cooking up now? They’re making a new film, Ernest and Celestine (co-directed by Benjamin Renner), and as it turns out there is actually a current article about it in Variety, based on the fact that yesterday saw the debut of footage at the Annecy festival in France.

So that crop above is probably your first look at Ernest and Celestine, which adapts the book series by Gabrielle Vincent. The full image is below, along with some more news on the film. It looks like quite a change of pace from A Town Called Panic…

Variety announces that Lambert Wilson (The Matrix Reloaded, Of Gods and Men) will voice Ernest, “a gruff bear who wants to be an artist, who befriends Celestine, an ingenious mouse.” Also in the cast are Anne-Marie Loop, voicing an aged lady mouse and Dominique Collignon, playing a dentist.

Acclaimed French writer Daniel Pennac penned the screenplay, based on the series of illustrated kids books by the late Gabrielle Vincent. Goran Bregovic, who has often worked with Emir Kusturica, is reportedly doing the film’s music. And Didier Brunner is producing; he was behind a couple films that people liked, such as The Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells, so that is probably a good sign for this one.

This video is a celebration of the wonderful "magic" that happens when ordinary people put on animal costumes and bring happiness and joy to others, particularly children. Unlike (most) adults, kids still have the capacity to imagine that the fursuiter is not a hot, sweaty performer baking in a suit - but a cartoon character, or maybe their favorite stuffed animal, come to life.

All the quotes used in this video were obtained directly from the fursuiters themselves from our local group up here in the greater Seattle area.

Video by Kijani
Original footage shot mostly by Dolphin Echo
Still photos by Chaos Reign

Just today I was recommending the incomparably wonderful animated film A Town Called Panic to a friend, which it occurred to me to wonder: what progress has been made on the project the makers of that film (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar) are cooking up now? They’re making a new film, Ernest and Celestine (co-directed by Benjamin Renner), and as it turns out there is actually a current article about it in Variety, based on the fact that yesterday saw the debut of footage at the Annecy festival in France.

So that crop above is probably your first look at Ernest and Celestine, which adapts the book series by Gabrielle Vincent. The full image is below, along with some more news on the film. It looks like quite a change of pace from A Town Called Panic…

Variety announces that Lambert Wilson (The Matrix Reloaded, Of Gods and Men) will voice Ernest, “a gruff bear who wants to be an artist, who befriends Celestine, an ingenious mouse.” Also in the cast are Anne-Marie Loop, voicing an aged lady mouse and Dominique Collignon, playing a dentist.

Acclaimed French writer Daniel Pennac penned the screenplay, based on the series of illustrated kids books by the late Gabrielle Vincent. Goran Bregovic, who has often worked with Emir Kusturica, is reportedly doing the film’s music. And Didier Brunner is producing; he was behind a couple films that people liked, such as The Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells, so that is probably a good sign for this one.

Find the full article here: furryne.ws | Published News

Author: GreenReaper

Could furry be holding your love life back? Los Angeles television producers appear to think so, judging by a recent casting call for an unnamed dating show:

Looking for Vampires, Wolves, furries, adult babies, trekkies, comic book lovers, body builders, Wiccans, puppetears (sic.), roller chicks, chubby lovers, … Are you single and genuinely looking to find true love, but something is holding you back??

Researchers at the University of California, Davis might disagree; their 2007 furry survey found ‘about half’ the respondents were in a relationship – of those, 76% were with other furries.

[UPDATED by Markos]

Saralane Reality World is the production company behind this casting call.  Saralane Boasberg has been contacting furries through Facebook asking if they would be interested in participating.  She was the Production Associate for the Tyra Banks Show responsible for casting ChewFox and her mate.

Submitted by: Doug

Via TreeHugger
in January of 2011, a group of biologists and conservationists in Nepal moved a tiger from a rehabilitation facility in Chitwan National Park to a new reserve in Bardia National Park.

Fitted with a radio collar, the tiger—named Namo Buddha—represented a unique opportunity for researchers to closely follow the behavior of an introduced tiger. Unfortunately, this same technology led them to a grisly discovery a few short months later.

Find the full article here: furryne.ws | Published News

This article is enlarged from a chronology originally printed for an exhibition at L.A.con III, the fifty-fourth annual World Science Fiction Convention, 29 August-2 September 1996, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.

There is no single specific date or event that can lay claim to being the birth of furry fandom. However, there is general agreement that it was around late 1983 or early 1984 that furry fans coalesced out of SF fandom and comics fandom and began an independent identity.

Due to the practice in the comic-book industry of dating one to three months in the future, the dates of the comic books listed here may be a month or two later than their actual appearances.

To indicate significant geographic centers of furry fandom, the home cities have been listed of active fans. Entries without cities indicate that the individuals named have not been active in furry fandom.

The goal of this chronology is to list the "first" and the "most influential" entries in the many aspects of furry interest. If there were more room, many other favorites could be added to each category: novels such as Brian Jacques' Redwall series, Paul Kidd's Mus of Kerbridge, Mark Rogers' Samurai Cat series, and Mary Stanton's The Heavenly Horse From the Outermost West; movies like Animalympics, The Great Mouse Detective, and Meet the Feebles; TV cartoons such as The Amazing 3, Animaniacs, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, the animated Star Trek with Lieutenant M'Ress, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, TaleSpin, and Tiny Toon Adventures; comic books like The Chronicles of Panda Khan, Eb'nn, Red Shetland, Space Beaver, and Wild Life; fanzines like Hunca Munca! and Pawprints; MU*s like Animal Nation, FurryFaire, FurToonia, Redwall MUCK, and Tapestries. It was not our intention to slight anything, but space limitations precluded our including everything. Please consider this chronology in the nature of a brief encyclopedic summary. A detailed history of furry fandom is yet to be written.

Welcome to the open beta of Fur Paws!
We would love to hear your feedback about what you see. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to post them here. If you find any bugs, please use our help desk to let us know so we can fix them!

GamingFurEver.com is a new social site targeting Furry gamers. We asked what the site is all about:

Our mission is to become the central online community for furries who are also gamers. We just launched on June 10th, and currently offer a database of video games with anthropomorphic characters, message boards, high score recording arcade games, daily gaming news, personal blogs, and a dense community system that integrates everything together seamlessly. Every gamer needs a place where they can discuss the latest happenings in the industry with fellow gamers. What makes this site special is its catering to the furry crowd and focus on keeping content aimed at all things gaming. Groups of people can come from anywhere in the world and plan gaming nights over the internet, talk about new and old furry gaming experiences, and find others who share the same love for this growing hobby.

Gaming Furever wants to represent the furry gaming community and news network at E3 2012, and the creator of the site has actually been to two previous E3′s in ’09 and ’10. We hope to achieve a user base composed of members who want healthy competition and banter. We want to be the source for information about game releases that feature anthro characters, and provide an archive of previous releases for future furry gamers who want to go back and play the classics. Almost every furry is a gamer, and we believe every furry gamer can find a reason to visit GamingFurever.com

GamingFurever currently offers:

• Database of Games
• Reviews
• Arcade area
• News
• Forums
• Blog

Check the site out at: GamingFurever

Author: Doug
This article is enlarged from a chronology originally printed for an exhibition at L.A.con III, the fifty-fourth annual World Science Fiction Convention, 29 August-2 September 1996, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.

There is no single specific date or event that can lay claim to being the birth of furry fandom. However, there is general agreement that it was around late 1983 or early 1984 that furry fans coalesced out of SF fandom and comics fandom and began an independent identity.

Due to the practice in the comic-book industry of dating one to three months in the future, the dates of the comic books listed here may be a month or two later than their actual appearances.

To indicate significant geographic centers of furry fandom, the home cities have been listed of active fans. Entries without cities indicate that the individuals named have not been active in furry fandom.

The goal of this chronology is to list the “first” and the “most influential” entries in the many aspects of furry interest. If there were more room, many other favorites could be added to each category: novels such as Brian Jacques’ Redwall series, Paul Kidd’s Mus of Kerbridge, Mark Rogers’ Samurai Cat series, and Mary Stanton’s The Heavenly Horse From the Outermost West; movies like Animalympics, The Great Mouse Detective, and Meet the Feebles; TV cartoons such as The Amazing 3, Animaniacs, Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers, the animated Star Trek with Lieutenant M’Ress, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, TaleSpin, and Tiny Toon Adventures; comic books like The Chronicles of Panda Khan, Eb’nn, Red Shetland, Space Beaver, and Wild Life; fanzines like Hunca Munca! and Pawprints; MU*s like Animal Nation, FurryFaire, FurToonia, Redwall MUCK, and Tapestries. It was not our intention to slight anything, but space limitations precluded our including everything. Please consider this chronology in the nature of a brief encyclopedic summary. A detailed history of furry fandom is yet to be written.

Find the full article here: furryne.ws | Published News

HEATHER KENNETT 2011
Heather Kennett has refused to resign as journalist from the Eastern
Courier Messenger. No wonder, the lawyers (Kelly & Co Lawyers) are
being hired to make "Chilling Effects Clearinghouse" with thousands of
takedown notices to web sites, which although censored in Australia
aren't abroad. This commentary is based on material accessible in

Author: Istanbul

This week, we explore our first episode with a topic! We handle two e-mails this time around, one of them from someone telling us all about his crazy family, and the other a follow-up e-mail from a previous week about stalker behavior and what’s being done about it!

Next week’s topic is the workplace. What’s your job like? Do you enjoy it, do you hate it, do you need one, what’s the story there? Write in with any questions or comments you may have, whether topical or otherwise, and we’ll read them on the air! Write in before Thursday to have your e-mail read on Episode 8 – Salt Mines!

Per usual, e-mails go to E-Mail Hidden, our FA account is fuzzylogicpodcast, and our Twitter account is fuzzylogiccast – give us a listen, and write in!

Episode 7 – Family Ties

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