Archives for: May 2009

Despite webmaster Nexxus promising to put an end to FurNation, the site went online again after having been dead for one day, as someone came up with a brilliant new business plan:

We have worked out an agreement that will allow FN to stay online. The service is being transfered to the Furry Community as a whole, and will be run and operated as a group effort with voting for the CEO and board of directors like any convention or small public business would be run. Basically, this will be the first web service to be fully owned and operated by the fandom! We will have more details this week as we work out all the plans and create the TOS and Charter for the new FurNation!

Alan Berlin, a legislative aide to Pennsylvania State Senator Jane Orie, was arrested May 28th and charged with trying to lure a 15-year-old boy over the internet into having sex with him. According to Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett, “Berlin, using the screen name Alan Panda Bear, allegedly suggested dressing up in animal costumes and engaging in various sex acts with the boy.”

A video report from KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh identifies Berlin as “something called a furry - a person who likes to dress up as an animal", and goes on to tell that “furries hold an annual convention here in Pittsburgh and call it a harmless activity.”

According to The Pittsburgh Channel, investigators from Corbett’s office found two fursuits (pictured above) in Berlin’s home.

Alan Panda Bear’s Pounced ad (Google cache).

FurNation webmaster Nexxus announces that the site closes down May 16th:

FurNation, a websystem that I have operated for the furry fandom since 1996, almost 14 years, will be closing and going offline forever on May 16th, 2009 at Midnight.

FurNation Worlds, the sims we run on Second Life, will remain for now in name only. FurNation Prime, the main center sim will go offline this week.

I am sorry to announce this, but for FN to continue at the present time while paying the debt that I still have for the hosting fees going back to the beginning of operation we would need a little over 2K in cash along with this month’s hosting fees of 400 dollars. I do not expect nor wish to ask for further donations to run the service, nor can I afford to continue to add to my current debt.

All Supporting Members will be able to keep using the email system (I will provide a new URL for the web interface). I will provide further information later this week.

For those hosting sites on FN, the FTP service will remain in operation until the end of this month for all those who need to collect any data they may have stored.

I have met many friends in the fandom, and I can say that the last 14 years in the fandom has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. To bring FurNation to a final close is one of the hardest things I have done, and I will always feel a part of myself is missing.

So long furs and furrets, and thanks for all the carrots.