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the provocative cotton tail must be clean and sprightly

madamjujujive — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:43:21 -0800

Vintage Playboy bunny clips offer a fascinating window on women, men, sex, and the swinging 60s
1964 Opening of the Hollywood Playboy Club part 1, part 2
1966: British bunnies being trained
1967: CBC Montreal - interviews with Bunny Sonia and Hugh Hefner
The Bunny Years The Bunny Manual - Detroit training booklet, 1968-69 Life photo feature: The Early Years Of course, there were critics of the bunny lifestyle. Young journalist Gloria Steinem went underground as a bunny to get the scoop: I Was a Playboy Bunny Gloria Steinem 1968 Playboy club footage Feminist criticisms 1985 - Hugh and Christie Hefner Defend Their Empire from the Sting in Gloria Steinem's Bunny's Tale The Playboy Bunny in Pop Culture Penny Marshall and Carrie Fisher in bunny training - excerpt from Laverne & Shirley Bewitched - A Bunny for Tabitha The Odd Couple - One for the Bunny More bunny trivia can be found on the Ex-Playboy Bunnies site, where you can find bunny bios, bunnies that went on to fame, a '60s recruitment brochure, and more.

An' you get to tend the rabbits

cjorgensen — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:04:43 -0800

Rabbit Tarot by Nakisha Elsje VanderHoeven. She sells prints and original paintings from the Rabbit Tarot, along with other animal paintings and sculptures in her Etsy shop. She has a blog, can be followed on twitter, and many of her images are on flickr. Original paintings from the Rabbit Tarot will be on display at City Trees Gallery in Seattle in November along with quilts based on the Rabbit Tarot by Cindi Glinski of Cottontail Quilts.

They shoot bunnies, don't they?

filthy light thief — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:26:18 -0800

There is contention in Sweden over the use of rabbit cadavers as bioenergy to provide heat in Värmland. The rabbits are invasive species, initially pets that were released into the parks in the city of Stockholm. Lacking any natural predators, the rabbits thrive on vegetation, eating their way through the city's central parks. The culling last year set a local record with nearly 6,000 rabbits removed from Stockholm's parks, mostly from Kungsholmen. Some concerned citizens have formed a group, Vilda kaniners värn (Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits, Google translation). They speak out against the culling and provide alternatives to killing the rabbits, citing methods used in Helsinki (including plant protection) as more humane alternatives. (Biofuel details and more after the break.) Helsinki has had invasive rabbits since 1995, where the first appeared in Arabianranta and Kyläsaari, according to a 2005 article. The rabbits largely die out over winter, only to flourish in the spring. In 2005, they weren't reported as a nuisance, but the population increased in 2006 and 2007, to the point of costing hundreds of thousands of euros for the replacement of thousands of individual plants suffering from damage caused by rabbits, even eating holes in Olympic Stadium football nets. In 2008, the tactic was to catch rabbits in nets and humanely put down after being anaesthetised using carbon dioxide, and they were then given to researchers for further studies. The stable rise of the rabbit population introduced predators into Helsinki, such as lynxes and foxes, though there is not enough suitable habitat for these larger predators to keep the rabbits in check. Last winter, 500 rabbits were culled by the city's rabbit control program, and more recently captured rabbits have become food for large birds, big cats, wolverines, and bears at the Helsinki Zoo. (Helsinki's rabbits are the source of many more stories at Helsingin Sanomat.) As noted in the BBC article on the topic, Kovex (Google translation), a subsidiary of Danish group Daka Biodiesel, has worked on making animal waste into biofuels through the Biomal program, which followed from the mass disposals BSE-related animal waste.

The Wall of Fluffeh

desjardins — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:31:52 -0800

More cute than you can possibly handle (via)

Sign language bunny. Pages!

essexjan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:22:34 -0800

Sign language bunnies. Does exactly what it says. It's bunnies. Teaching you sign language. If that's not enough to both entertain and educate you, it's a geocities-hosted site with the worst case of apostrophe abuse I've seen in ages ("Thing's sign's"), coupled with home-made animated .gifs that are so bad they're brilliant. All it's lacking is an embedded midi file of 'My Heart Will Go On'. There's even a bunny doing gang sign's.

Ride the Roomba!

Del Far — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:25:56 -0800

Pets have long been afraid of anything robotic, whether it be R oo m b a or Robo tic Dog, but times they are a'changing and Pets are fighting back and have learned to overcome.

Kaninhoppning

joannemerriam — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:03:07 -0800

Bunny show jumping, or kaninhoppning, started in Sweden and has spread to Finland, Denmark, Norway and other countries. The rabbit who completes the course with the fewest mistakes or fastest time wins. (previously, mostly YT)

Furry crack

homunculus — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:20:57 -0800

BUNNY CONCERT. 5 bunny in concert. [SLYT, Via]

handpainted signs from Nepal

nickyskye — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:25:15 -0800

Beware of Dog. Nepali artists paint signs on metal. Before and After. The story behind Danger Dogs. Click on the names of the different artists at the top of the page for various styles. Nepal map.

Learning Rabbit is in some ways like human cultural studies, but of course the subject individuals have much longer ears.

clavicle — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:45:53 -0800

Since 1999, The Language of Lagomorphs has been the foremost resource on the web for information about the body language of domestic rabbits. "It's been pretty amazing to see how many people, even those who live with rabbits, are outright shocked at just how communicative they really are once you learn to notice. The contrast between this reality and the popular misconception that rabbits 'just sit there' could not be greater." The Language of Lagomorphs (n.b., Tim is wrong! they're not rodents!) goes into seriously fascinating detail about the subtleties of rabbit communication. Rabbits wiggle their noses a lot, right? There's a reason for that: "A rabbit's nose is like a thermometer for how interested it is in what's being observed." You may have seen photos of rabbits baring their big, pointy, nasty teeth in which they look foul, cruel, and bad-tempered indeed, but they're probably just yawning. ...ok, you got me: this is a post about cute bunnies. (Taking matters into my own hands.) I'm partial to bunny yawn #26, myself. You may have seen pictures of Herman the unbelievably fucking huge German giant before; he's for real, and he's also on Myspace. These guys look like they could give Herman a run for his money, but really they're just groomed that way for show purposes.

Chocolade Haas

GuyZero — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:12:02 -0800

Chocolate Bunny. From artist Sander Plug.

Scary Stuff

McLir — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:11:18 -0800

Scary Stuff: Count Floyd's Scary Little Christmas Promo, Dr Cube's Posse, A Scarier Skeleton by Jack Handey [mp3], The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra Trailer [previously], Shining, Plan 9 From Outer Space - Best Lines, Re-Enactment - Pan's Labyrinth, [previously] Scream in 30 Seconds and Re-Enacted by Bunnies, Season of the Witch, The Thing in Lego, REM & Muppets - Furry Happy Monsters. Happy Halloween everyone!

Photos of animals posed as humans

cerebus19 — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:04:33 -0800

Harry Whittier Frees — "These unusual photographs of real animals were made possible only by patient, unfailing kindness on the part of the photographer at all times."

Bunnies again, again.

UbuRoivas — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:40:39 -0800

Borat in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies!

Luke Chueh hates bunnies

jonson — Sat, 20 May 2006 00:46:19 -0800

Los Angeles artist Luke Chueh paints cute, anthropomorphic animals going through rough patches in life.

Bunnies!

blahblahblah — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:13:18 -0800

In time for the tail end of Easter - it's bunny lovin' time: Brokeback Mountain as performed by animated bunnies (and other movies, all flash), the odd world of the Watertown bunny lady, the marshmallow bunny survival test labs, and, of course, the history of the Playboy bunny. (All SFW, except for the bunny version of Reservoir Dogs)

Edmund Wilson and American culture

matteo — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:21:27 -0800

"When I read his work, I forgive him all his sins". Edmund Wilson disliked being called a critic. He thought of himself as a journalist, and nearly all his work was done for commercial magazines, principally Vanity Fair, in the nineteen-twenties; The New Republic, in the nineteen-twenties and thirties; The New Yorker, beginning in the nineteen-forties; and The New York Review of Books, in the nineteen-sixties. He was exceptionally well read: he had had a first-class education in English, French, and Italian literature, and he kept adding languages all his life. He learned to read German, Russian, and Hebrew; when he died, in 1972, he was working on Hungarian.
Edmund Wilson and American culture. (more inside)

Competitive rabbits.

Viomeda — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:02:25 -0800

Competitive rabbits. They are even cuter when they win prizes!

I said a hip hop a hip hip hop hop and I don't stop

WolfDaddy — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:53:23 -0800

I say a E-A-S with a T-E-R and an EGG with a double G! Flash, Shockwave, 10 days early, not Friday, \/\/hateva

Bunnies

kenko — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:42:17 -0800

Bunny paintings.

Free the Lesbian Bunnies!

mudpuppie — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:04:06 -0800

"The nation's new education secretary denounced PBS on Tuesday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian [BUNNY] characters, saying many parents would not want children exposed to such lifestyles." The "Postcards from Buster" series features a peripatetic bunny, Buster, who travels the country learning about diversity. The new head of the Department of Ed has requested that PBS return the money it used to develop the show featuring the sapphic rabbits. PBS has decided not to distribute the episode to its affiliates, but WGBH has promised to make the show available to stations who want to air it.

Nathalia Edenmont!

TwelveTwo — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:34:26 -0800

At first glance it would seem to be something one would find in some photoshop gallery. But then one finds out that she has been forced to justify her work, for they are pictures of freshly killed animals. Much to the dislike of some craigslistians. With the growing uproar, there is even a petition going around (though petitions like that are har dly ra re.) Is this a work of someone seeking attention through offending people? Or someone unable to use photoshop? Whatever the case, I’m sure PETA will join in. . . . Wait, it has.

I wish I was never born

driveler — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:45:53 -0800

It's a Wonderful Life in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies.

Pets or Meat

NortonDC — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:46:08 -0800

Silly carnivores, bunnies are for eating!

bunnies again

konolia — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:29:51 -0800

JAWS reenacted by bunnies