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Friday, July 4, 2008

PlanetBears needs a new logo as well as banners. It's very simple - just make something incredible - you have 720x90 pixels (example) to play with for the banner and 250x250 pixels (example) for the logo. It must be in either .JPG, .GIF or .SWF (Flash) format.

This is a contest so the winner will get $100 as well as a lifetime membership to the PlanetBears Gallery and Video section. However ~ all those who send something in will get a year membership to the site, so just by participating you're going to win something (note: your work needs to be approved first).

This contest will run until the middle of August 2008. Send all entries via email or use the contact form. You can apply as many times as you like.

I am going to look for some sponsors as well so maybe I'll be able to give away some DVDs too. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate (or the legal age within your district).
 
Have fun with this one, be creative, make something cool. Logos help define a site so try and help me define PlanetBears ~ an international Bear news site with Bear galleries and videos.

As for the banners, if you want to make it a bit sexier, you can use any of the photos that I've chosen here for this contest.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

To all those who have a membership with PlanetBears (and those who still have their membership since the bear-pics days) - please email me or use the contact form and I will give you a temporary username and password to the BearFoot Galleries which has almost a thousand photos of Roger.

Now I posted this very same article back in the middle of May (here) and I was expecting a lot of you guys to email me. However, I didn't even get the fraction of emails I was expecting... which says to me that a lot of people don't read what's on the net... and well... I know I don't read a whole hell of a lot so I guess it's understandable.

In other BearFoot news: when I wrote that article back in May, I got an email from someone who was interested in buying the domain name. Now this was not the 1st time someone wanted to buy BearFoot but this was the 1st serious offer I received... well... it turned out that it wasn't so serious after all and this guy was just leading me on... I don't think he had any intention on buying the domain name, and we negotiated for a month and even when he got his asking price, he declined, which tells me he was a scam with too much time on his hands.

So... whatever... he's a donkey and I wasted my time. The bad news is that I wasted a month when I could have been working on BearFoot. The good news is that I get to keep the BearFoot domain name.

Anyhow... back to the article... to all those who presently have a membership with PlanetBears, please email me and I will give you a password to the site. It is a temporary password but at least you will get to preview the site. But once the website is finished and we're ready to go live, the password will no longer be good.

So please - contact me... I have something good to give you... honest.

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

This feature of a TubeBear profile is sad... it's actually a profile that belongs to a couple - Duane and Lee - their profile being the ChubTickler. Lee (the younger of the 2) recently passed away just shy a month ago, and Duane is asking to keep up the profile as a way to keep Lee's memory alive. I thought that was a really touching gesture.

From their profile: "My Lee quietly passed from this world after a long battle with cancer. I have asked that his profile be kept up here in his memory. Lee darling I love you. you will always be in my heart, my sweet ChubTickler".

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Every now and then Wikipedia features a guy who definitely could be considered a Bear. Today they are featuring the General Winfield Hancock. From Wiki: "He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War. Known to his Army colleagues as 'Hancock the Superb', he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863".

I'm not one who cares anything for wars, but soldiers do look good in their uniforms, and you gotta love this picture of the general, a picture of him taken after his warring days. You can see that he'd put on the pounds a bit and he's kinda busting a little at the seems in his old uniform which he probably had to dust off for the pic.

And that beard 'n stache... very funky...