August 2009
WikiFur migration begins
Posted by Alexander Grey on Sun 16 Aug 2009 - 19:51Furry encyclopaedia WikiFur has completed plans to move away from host Wikia following over a year of planning.
GreenReaper, the founder and owner of WikiFur, has today began migrating all articles, data and user accounts from the English WikiFur across to the WikiFur.com server, which already hosts WikiFur in 12 other languages.
The move is purported to be to escape from Wikia's somewhat tyrannical rule over the wiki's it hosts, imposing large amounts of advertising and stylistic control, as well as controvertial behaviour concerning the control of domain names.
Upcoming furry comics for October 2009 (Previews only)
Posted by Treesong on Mon 17 Aug 2009 - 10:17Nothing special this month. Piles of stuff from Boom!, none looking exceptional.
Ursula Vernon's Irrational Fears available for preorder
Posted by Tibo on Tue 18 Aug 2009 - 17:28Jarlidium Press is pleased to announce that Ursula Vernon's first comic, Irrational Fears, is coming out in printed form, featuring 32 full-color pages plus a new introduction and cover by Ms. Vernon. Please see Jarlidium's preorder store to get a discount on the softcover edition, or your only chance to buy the special edition hardcover! Preorders will be open until September 30th, 2009.
Indiana gets a convention
Posted by Alexander Grey on Sun 23 Aug 2009 - 09:31Yet another furry convention has sprung up in the last month, this time the Indianapolis-based convention IndyFurCon.
Headed by Tora Nightprowler and scheduled for August 5-8, 2010; IndyFurCon is Indiana's first furry convention, starting life with the theme of "Tropical, Furry, Fun!"
It is to be held at the Fishers Conference Center and offers a range of entrance choices, from the $15 day pass to the $130 super-sponsor. There are also a range of lifetime memberships, which give entrance to this and every future IndyFurCon for up to $750.
Yippee Coyote wins Fursuit Fracas 2009
Posted by Alexander Grey on Sun 23 Aug 2009 - 13:09
Yippee Coyote, one of the many suits of Californian fursuiter Jimmy Chin, has won the 2009 Fandom's Favorite Fursuit Fracas out of 326 entries. Yippee won with 327 votes to Frisbee's 283 – a lead of 44 votes.
Skins, not just a bad show on E4
Posted by Alexander Grey on Fri 28 Aug 2009 - 23:06
The furry fandom yesterday made it's fourth appearance in webcomic xkcd, made by ex-NASA contractor Randall Munroe, it is a veritable mix of geekish humour – so obviously, furries would appear often.
What we didn't know, however, was that strange sect of furries who have animal fursonae which then pretend to be human, or the "Skin" community, as it's so called.
The comic's alt text (a device for adding author commentary to a strip) reads: "There's Livejournal drama between those who want to wear human suits over fursuits and those who just take off the fursuits.
Wallace and Gromit star in new science show
Posted by The Chained Wolf on Sat 29 Aug 2009 - 08:57
Claymation characters Wallace and Gromit are to star in a new TV show about inventions on BBC One.
Wallace and Gromit's World of Inventions will be made by Aardman and broadcast peak-time some time in 2010. A statement published by the BBC describes the show:
In Wallace and Gromit's World of Inventions, Wallace will take a light hearted and humorous look at the real-life inventors, contraptions, gadgets and inventions, with the silent help of Gromit. The series will aim to inspire a whole new generation of innovative minds by showing them real, but mind-boggling, machines and inventions from around the world that have influenced his illustrious inventing career.