Some interesting furry press

This article has an interview with one of the creators of Earth Eternal. Here's a snippet:

In terms of the risk of criticism in regardes to the animal models, I’m going to guess you’re referring to the furry issue. For readers who might not be aware, furries are people who have a particular affinity for anthropomorphic (animals walking upright like people, more or less) characters.

Here’s the thing: Most people browsing around have never heard of furries. The recent Entourage episode aside, it’s just not in the mass consciousness. To most people, including to all of our team, anthropomorphic animals just means Disney or Warner Brothers.

There’s an assumption among some hardcore MMORPG fans that enjoying animal characters is an indication that you’re sexually interested in them, which I find to be ridiculous. I like Bugs Bunny. I like Puss in Boots. I like Taurens in WoW. I don’t see anything wrong with that I guess.

I'm glad to see that someone who is presumably "unbiased" is questioning some assumptions out there about furries.

Cross posted to furrymedia.

Tampons can be fun!

theweaselking brings us this story, in which some anal retentive school administrators decided that students should no longer have backpacks in school due to "security concerns".

The sole exception? If you are a girl, and it is that time of the month, you may carry your tampons in a purse. Of course, this now tells everyone in the school that you are having your period. And what's worse -- guards have been stopping students with purses and actually asking them, "Do you have your period?"

Understandably, students are horrified and the parents are furious. In fact, the students have been protesting using the following techniques:

- Girls have been wearing tampons on their clothes, and made purses out of tampon boxes

- Boys are wearing maxi-pads stuck to their shirts

- "protest necklaces" - Tampon boxes on a piece of yarn

- A boy wearing nothing but a paper bag on his head streaked through the school as students were arriving for the day


Mad bonus points go to the parents, who are calling out the school district on their draconian tactics.

Right on Bridge Plz!

It's so awesome when a GPS does 'leet speak: