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| Owner/Lead admin: GreenReaper[1]
|Launch date
|9 March 2010 – 12 June 2010 (closed beta length)
|Furry art community
Inkbunny is a community art site catering to adult furry fans. It went live on June 12, 2010[3] after a three month beta.[4]
Inkbunny has over 280,000 registered members (~19,500 visit in any given day), 673,000 submissions and 120,000 journals as of May 2015.[5] The site mascot is a pink rabbit.[6]
Philosophy and content[edit]
Inkbunny exists to help artists share and sell their work.[7] The site initially took a commission on the sale and distribution of high-resolution digital downloads and prints, but now donations and merchandise are its sole sources of income;[8] no fees are charged to join, display work, engage in business or accept donations on the site.
Inkbunny welcomes artwork and discussions by furries with various interests, fetishes, and 'philias. To facilitate positive discussion, users can control comments on their submissions and journals, and ban disruptive users from commenting or contacting them. Members can avoid work which is not to their taste through keyword- and artist-based blocks.[7]
While Inkbunny members must be adults, half of all hosted work is general-rated.[5] To avoid legal issues, humans and "essentially human" neko characters may not be depicted nude or in sexual situations.[9] Derivative works are prohibited without explicit permission and material changes, and photography is limited to backgrounds and the display of artwork (including limited fursuit photos).[9]
- See also: Comparison of furry art sites
Inkbunny introduced features which were previously unavailable on most competing furry art archives, including:
- Keyword- and artist-based submission blocking, including the ability to block based on a combination of rating and keyword (e.g. sexually mature or adult My Little Pony work)
- Multi-file submissions, intended for multi-page comics, but also used for alternate versions, sketches accompanying a finished work, and sketch-dumps
- Pools, ordered sets of submissions related by theme or work; like folders, but one submission can be in many pools
- Keyword suggestions from users, with the goal of improving the site's search and blocking features
- Always-on HTTPS to avoid wireless traffic sniffing at conventions, and IP Ranges to control account access
- Bulk upload via ZIP files, to both multiple submissions and individual multi-file submissions
- Streaming notifications, separate from artistic submissions and journals, and character sheets as a subset of submissions
- API support for developers, easing automated access to most read-only functions and submission posting[10]
Soon after the live beta was announced, many high-profile users on Fur Affinity joined, such as Meesh,[11] Narse[12] and Scappo. Others claimed the site was intended for cub pornography because many of its staff and testers had been involved in the creation of Softpaw, a cub porn publication. Its proportion spiked after FA banned such work and recommended Inkbunny as one alternative host,[13] but as of May 2014 only 9% of the site's submissions were tagged as "cub", including general-audience works.
Main server[edit]
Inkbunny's main server, avarice (a leased HP DL380e G8), has as of August 2013:[14]
- 2 x Hexa-core Intel Xeon E5-2420 64-bit 1.9-2.4Ghz
- 3TB RAID 5 (4 x 1TB SATA2; previously 2TB RAID 10[15]) for the web server and asset storage
- 64GB SSD (2 x 64GB in RAID 1) for the database and PHP sessions
- An unmetered 100Mbps connection
Three years of funding for this server was secured in a December 2014 donation drive, which raised $10,400.[16]
Secondary server[edit]
The 2014 donation drive also resulted in the lease of a secondary server (a HP DL120 G7) to replace an on-site file/database backup server:[16]
- Quad-core Intel Xeon E3-1270 64-bit 3.4-3.8GHz
- 3TB RAID 5 (4 x 1TB SATA2)
- 100TB/month on a 1Gbps connection
This server is also used as a content distribution proxy for users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America's east coast,[17] and as a development staging server, with plans for warm/hot database backup.[16]
Arizona cache[edit]
Users in most of North and South America and Asia are served by a public-file cache VPS sponsored by Bad Dragon and hosted at IOFlood in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.[18]
- Two Intel Xeon E3-1270v3 64-bit 3.5-3.9GHz cores
- 50GB SSD for thumbnails and screen-sized files
- 50GB+4GB hard disk for original files and swap space
- 1Gbps connection with routes to two of IOFlood's providers
As of May 2015, this cache can store roughly three days of all content accessed through it,[18] as well as ~50,000 original-sized files.[19]
Australia cache[edit]
Users in Australia and New Zealand are served by a public-file cache funded by Inkbunny donors.[18]
- One 2.4Ghz Intel core
- 400GB/month on a 1Gbps connection
Prior servers included:
- an unnamed server
- elmo[20] (4-core 2.13GHz Xeon, 4GB RAM, SATA2, unmetered 10Mbit connection[21])
- fluttershy[22] (8-core 2.33GHz Xeon, 16GB RAM, 15kRPM SAS, later upgraded[23] to 32GB and SSD database storage)
- A low-powered backups server, angel[24] (Core Duo T2450, 2GB RAM, 1TB SATA, 1U, 5TB/month traffic), named after the bunny in My Little Pony.[25]
Inkbunny also maintains a standalone wiki for informational purposes, and off-site backups.[26]
- ↑ Site ownership change - Starling, Inkbunny (19 November 2013)
- ↑ "Admins and Mods" - Inkbunny
- ↑ Inkbunny Beta goes LIVE - Inkbunny (12 June 2010)
- ↑ 2,000+ new members in 24hrs, Site Speed, Rules - Inkbunny (14 June 2014)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Statistics" - Inkbunny
- ↑ Inkbunny user profile
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "The Inkbunny Philosophy" - Inkbunny
- ↑ "Donations" - Inkbunny
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Acceptable Content Policy - Inkbunny Wiki
- ↑ API - Inkbunny Wiki
- ↑ Inkbunny - Meesh (14 June 2010)
- ↑ New Inkbunny Account :) - Narse (13 June 2010)
- ↑ Fur Affinity loses AlertPay account, bans cub porn - GreenReaper, Flayrah (24 November 2010)
- ↑ New server online! - Inkbunny (27 August 2013)
- ↑ From 2TB to 3TB - how hard could it be? - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (21 January 2015)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Putting your donations to work - Inkbunny (4 January 2015)
- ↑ Two caches, both alike in symmetry… - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (9 May 2015)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Cache network engaged - Bad Dragon sponsors U.S. cache node - Inkbunny (9 May 2015)
- ↑ Comment to IB Downloader - GreenReaper, Inkbunny (10 May 2015)
- ↑ Back online with new server - and cash still needed - Starling, Inkbunny (28 May 2010)
- ↑ New Server and long downtime around 1st June - Starling, Inkbunny (27 May 2010)
- ↑ Our new server, thanks to the sponsors - Starling, Inkbunny (19 May 2011)
- ↑ IB Server Upgrade - Performance Graphs - Inkbunny (14 April 2013)
- ↑ Inkbunny 2014 Donation Drive Q&A - Inkbunny (2 December 2014)
- ↑ Comment on Inkbunny is growing up! SSD drives and more RAM - Starling, Inkbunny (13 April 2013)
- ↑ Comment on IB needs donations! The little dog is begging $.$, - Starling, Inkbunny (21 February 2013)
External links[edit]
- Inkbunny Wiki - site information, including apps using the Inkbunny API
- Inkbunny on Twitter
- Inkbunny (InkbunnyNews) on Facebook
- Inkbunny merchandise on Redbubble
- Fur Affinity to Inkbunny migrator tool (by Salmy)
- Inkbunny downloader Firefox add-on (by Humbird0)


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In June 2010, sultan and Cohen were summoned to answer a foreclosure complaint filed by Bank of America.
sultan has been too ill for years to run affairs effectively, and Abdullah is fading.
1550s, from Middle French sultan "ruler of Turkey" (16c.), from Arabic sultan "ruler, king, queen, power, dominion," from Aramaic shultana "power," from shelet "have power." His wife, mother, daughter, concubine, or sister is a sultana.


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Really, really, really entertaining read. Enjoy! Random aside; this kid has excellent taste in television.
Really, really, really entertaining read. Enjoy! Random aside; this kid has excellent taste in television.
Laura Hudson of Comicsalliance.com perfectly sums up all things wrong with the way female sexuality's been handled in the DCnU issues this week.
Really enjoyed issue #1, hopefully he'll take full advantage of the wide open sandbox he's been given. interview here, enjoy!
I really hope this turns out as the book that Diana so sorely deserves and needs! Anybody copping this tomorrow? After reading this interview with Azzarello, I'm so sold on this book!
Always interesting to see what a writer/artist had in mind and compare/contrast how you experienced a work. Anyways, interview here!
Gonna miss CAFU on this book, but I'm really glad to have it back even if it's only 6 issues. solicit info here. Don't know Wes Craig's art, but at least this book has a regular artist again!
So now that we're halfway through the DCnU's first month I've been reading some new reader reactions to the titles. It's certainly been a mixed bag and interesting to see them. One common thread I noticed was that almost all of the new readers wanted to get an Origin issue for the #1. As a longtime reader that's the total opposite of what I wanted. In fact, had that been the case I'd have likely dropped the books or at the very least hated every moment of reading the new stories. I do agree that going with a "soft reboot" was a terrible idea, but all things considered DC's really in a tough place. I mean, is there any way to truly satisfy loyal, longtime readers while being totally accessible and appealing to new buyers?
Damn, fill in artists already?! Really?! sigh...whatever get's 'em out on time I suppose.
Anyways, enjoy, folks!
Seriously frak a Greg Land, Pacheco's solid and can look good with proper inking/coloring. but this dude? I love what this guy's doing! He needs a job illustrating something I love as much and is as important as Uncanny X-Men!
So can Lemire go two for two?! Take a look and see!
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Book 18, in Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series
Donna Leon's novels draw attention to the corruption, the incompetence and the depravity of a society where government agencies live alongside criminal gangs and one may only wonder which one is worst...This latest novel deals with national and international waste-disposal businesses that are riddled with corruption. For those who are fans of Donna Leon novels, this one has no surprise.
The story opens with Brunetti and his wife Paola invited to a dinner meeting at Paola's parents. Amongst the guests is Maurizio Cataldo who has asked Conte Falier( Brunetti's father in law) to invest in a venture in China. Conte Falier's hidden agenda is to have Brunetti investigate this businessman's background. At the dinner Brunetti is strategically seated next to Franca Marinello, Cataldo's wife, a charming woman whose face has been disfigured by botched cosmetic surgery. Guido is intrigued by her life experiences....
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I felt bad about always using an illustration of North American cicadas, so I made a Green Grocer cicada for Australian fans.
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Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world.
I felt bad about always using an illustration of North American cicadas, so I made a Green Grocer cicada for Australian fans.
Get this image on a shirt, mug or even a pillow case via CafePress (the mugs are the most affordable).
Here's something for Windows users: cicada cursors.
If you like to customize your PC, you can swap out your cursor with a cursor shaped like a cicada.
Download the cicada cursor it today (download and unzip).
Here's a tutorial for changing your cursor.
I have no idea if you can change the cursor on a Mac or mobile device.
Update! Try the new Magicicada cursor (.cur file in .zip file)!
Between now and the spring, I have to spend some time labeling the unlabeled species of cicadas on my site.
Any cicada fans who speak German, or are in Germany?
Sonja Beeker of the German radio program Neonlicht interviewed me last week. You can download the mp3 of the video from this page. It was my favorite interview of the season, believe it or not.
Here is a description:
Sie sind so klein. Aber sie machen einen ohrenbetäubenden Lärm. Schon eine einzige Zikade reicht, um einem den Schlaf für die Nacht zu rauben. Was aber, wenn Milliarden von Zikaden nach 17-jähriger Reifezeit schlüpfen und über die USA herfallen? Dann wird's laut. Ein bisschen eklig. Vielleicht aber auch lecker. Wie man's nimmt. Unsere Reporterin hat ein paar Ostküstenbewohner besucht, die sich auf die Plage vorbereiten.
I had my April Fool's Day fun, except Cicada Mania fans are smart folks and figured it out immediately.
After 17 years I am shutting down Cicada Mania. I am starting a new site Fulgoridae Frenzy. twitter.com/cicadamania/st…
— Cicada Mania (@cicadamania) April 1, 2013
Also, Hipster Cicada made an appearance:
One way I have fun during cicada emergences is designing unique cicada buttons. This year I have magnets too.
I have more cicada pins in the store. Check them out.
Saturday the BBC stopped by Cicada Mania headquarters to interview me for a Periodical Cicada episode of their show Nature's Weirdest. The episode will also feature Dr. Gene Kristsky, and other cicada experts. The show will air in January, and hopefully end up on NetFlix, BBC America or YouTube sometime after that. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019f6kv Here's a photo of the amazing crew that interviewed me:
Also, my friends David and Claire gave me this very nice cicada whistle from Peru:
Autumn (in North America) is usually a slow time for cicadas and this Cicada Mania website, so I have time to clean stuff up and decide what to do next to the site.
Now I turn to you, cicada fans, enthusiasts, and researchers: what would you like to see more of (or less of) on CicadaMania.com ? Please share your thoughts in the comments section of this post.
Looking forward, there's the Brood I emergence next year in Virginia and West Virginia which should generate some buzz, and then Brood II in 2013 in the east which should be a big event.
Update (5/2011): I finally found one of these keychains, but I'm going to keep looking for more. Plus we have, Packaging scans from Ben, Packages and images found by Roy, and a scan from an Archie McPhee catalog from Suzanne M.
Once or twice a year someone e-mails Cicada Mania asking if we know where to
find the cicada keychain — you know, "the one that buzzes". Although there
are many keychains which feature
cicadas (e.g. trapped in amber),
I've never found the cicada keychain online.
I haven't found these in stores since Clinton was in office. Back in the day,
you could find them in mall stores like "The Nature Company", "The Science Nook"
and "The Planet Store". Once, in the late 90's I asked the manager of one of these
stores about the these
keychains and she said: "we don't carry them any more, the last batch was defective".
She seemed angry that I even asked her about them. I wish I knew more. Maybe these
stores lost so much money because of these defective key chains that they all went
out of business? Or maybe they didn't sell enough whale song CDs, glow-in-the-dark
moon stickers, or mystical crystals to pay the rent?
I've spent way too much time looking for these keychain online, and I've
pretty much given up hope.
There are two problems with searching for stuff like this online:
While searching for cicada keychain:
Online stores I've searched include:
More photos of the cicada keychain here: Cicada Keychain Photos.
Update: I recently tried to get the CEO of Archie McPhee to reintroduce this product:
@cicadamania As we are synced with Nature as well, we can only offer the singing cicada keyring every 17 years.
— Mark Pahlow (@mcpheeceo) May 13, 2014


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When "Burning Chrome," the title story in William Gibson's first short story collection, appeared, it grabbed readers by the collar and shook them up a bit. Science fiction in the late '70s had grown a little bit stale and, worse, safe. "Burning Chrome" offered a fresh look at a future that was gritty, real, and more than a little dangerous. These stories brought high tech out of antiseptic university laboratories and corporate boardrooms and put it in the streets and alleyways where people found their own uses for it. Sometimes those uses were even legal.
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