No Bickr

There is no bunny equivalent to Twitter. We indoor bunnies live in each other's jacket pockets as it is; the last thing we want is to watch the minutia of each other's daily lives. If such a thing existed, it could indeed be called Bitter, because that's what we'd be.
Access to the Internet is tightly restricted among indoor bunnies. We do not want the human race to discover our existence and come looking for us. Access to the Bunternet, however, is free and widely available. Our friends the Bags use it, too.

Radar Love - Golden Earring 1973

One of our favorites. Bunnies LOVE speeding.

Bickr, etc.

For bunny mental health, most indoor bunny communities are set up to reflect the temperature and light of the outdoors. We haven't gone as far as turning on the sprinklers to simulate rain, or bringing in snow machines, but we try to create an environment similar to the natural one. Since bunnies work four hours a day at most and tend to sleep in bun naps, they have a lot of free time on their paws. Naturally, they're looking for entertainment. Now that paw-sized cell phones with cameras are widely available, many bunnies are having fun with phot0-transforming web sites like Bickr. The younger ones especially enjoy mashing photos of themselves and their friends and posting them on BTube. There are contests for all age groups for the most creatively transformed photos. Our bunny programmers are always on the lookout for new ideas. You can find them at any time of the day or night bun-storming at Panda, the organic-food cafe run by Babs, our own baby panda. (Several members of ordinarily larger species live in Canyon City. They are kept small with Doctor von Bun's anti-growth treatments and special diets.) Most places in the city are open twenty-four hours a day, more or less. Something is always going on.

Bunny with Carrot Bouquet

A Little Night Music

A fanciful depiction of one of our non-bunny citizens enjoying himself.

I would like to make a few comments about one or two of the so-called seven habits of effective learners. We inside bunnies have had to learn a great deal in order to develop our underground societies and keep them protected. If we had seen the many challenges involved in engineering and building our cities as problems rather than challenges, we would probably still be living outside, prey to any animal that passed by. So we agree heartily about the importance of setting goals and tackling challenges with a can-do spirit. We have also learned a great deal from studying human society--much of it negative, unfortunately. We have strict rules about how long a bunny can work per day and how he or she must be treated on the job. We have strict social rules as well. Any bunny who harms another bunny, whether physically or financially, will be exiled. For the usual punishable offense, a bunny will be "sent away." That is, he will be allowed to keep his money and bank accounts, but he will have to leave the community in which he committed the offense. If the offense is unforgivable, murder or attempted murder, for example, he will be "put out" : sent outside without money or resources.

There are bunny communities all over the world and we are able to communicate easily through the Bunternet. Our bungineers are adepts in the fields of security and encryption. For obvious reasons, we do not want outsiders to be aware of our communciations. We constantly study new technologies and develop our own. For example. the perimeters of our cities are patrolled by remote-controlled devices which are monitored by bunnies sitting at banks of monitors safely underground. Naturally, they keep up on the latest devices and are usually successful in getting upgrades: the city council does not stint on expenses for security.

I, too, am urged to stay abreast of information technology advances. Entertainment on demand contributes to a mentally healthy population; new methods of receiving music and videos are always of interest to us. I can tell you that b-pods are very popular. The advances in usb drives are exciting, too. As computers become ever smaller, they are easier to adapt to bunny use. As it is, bunnies come to the library to download b-mail, music, and other materials to flash drives which they plug into special phone/players devised by our bungineers. This is a great time to be an inside bunny!

Tales from a Bunny Library

I am a librarian for a media library in an underground community in Southern California. Our population is primarily bunnies, but a few other species live here as well. Obviously, I cannot specify our location, or even my name. You may call me Bonny.


To be perfectly honest, bunnies are not great readers. However, they are avid consumers of movies, TV, videos, radio, and live performances of all imaginable sorts. We have an extensive collection of human videos, bunny music, and documentary materials of bunny life and history. Due to the nature of bunny movie rights, videos of bunny movies are not available.


How does a bunny librarian come to take part in this exercise, I hear you ask? We bunnies are technologically astute. Not only do we have access to the Bunternet, we are also able to tap into the Internet. And, as the caption to a famous cartoon reads, "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog." An internet friend has given me access. Let's leave it at that.


Like the rest of you (whose blogs I have enjoyed reading), I am looking forward to upgrading my knowledge and skills. Since we indoor bunnies live somewhat cloistered lives, we are eager for information and entertainment that can be had without venturing out into the predator-infested natural world. Computer and electronic technologies have been of great and wonderful use to us. We are eager to learn; let us begin.