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Megaplex 2006...the HORROR! It's coming...

Happy Holidays! No matter how you celebrate the season, the Board and staff of Megaplex 2006 hope that your holidays were full of good cheer. We have some good cheer of our own to share, which we'll get to shortly. First things first, however...

The 2005 callendar year has seen the emergence of a new venue for furry/anthro/transformation writers to get their works recognized. The WatchingStone AnthroStory Contest is in it's third season and is getting better each go around. This season's judging began on December 21, 2005 and is slated to continue until January 21, 2006. All readers are encouraged to send in their ballots and vote for their favorite entry.

More information on how to vote is available here at http://www.watchingstone.com/vote.html .

More information on the contest is available on the main contest page at http://www.watchingstone.com/contest.html .

The list of artists who are confirmed to have panels is now available on our website.

If you returned paperwork, but are not on this list, then you will be automatically placed on the waiting list based on the postmark of your application.

If the above does not apply to you, and you still want to be placed on the waiting list, send email to artshow@furtherconfusion.org.

The list of reservations received and put into the waiting list should be available shortly.

Morphicon: "The Food Chain": May 5-7, 2006

In this issue:

• Morphicon 2006 Deadlines
• Sponsorship Levels
• Looking to Get Involved at the Con?

The Further Confusion 2006 Art Show has now been sold out for spaces in all areas (general, adult, 3D)

We will be putting up a list of all those who have panel or table space on our Art Show webpage as soon as possible (either Wednesday evening or Thursday morning). When the list is put up, it will be announced here.

There is no need to email the art show staff enquiring if you have space - this information will be provided on the list when it is posted.

The Art Show staff is now creating a waiting list for Art Show space. If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please send an email to artshow@furtherconfusion.org.

If you have already submitted paperwork applying for artshow space but did not get space - you will automatically be placed on the waiting list for space, based on the postmarked date of your application.

We thank you in advance for your patience.

From ABC News out of Spokane, Washington, researchers have identified a type of "long panting" sound that Dogs make to be the equivalent of a "laugh" and that it appears to make other dogs stop barking.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1370911

"When they played the sound of a dog panting over the loudspeaker, the gaggle of dogs at the shelter kept right on barking. But when they played the dog version of laughing, all 15 barking dogs went quiet within about a minute. "

Doodles wrote in alt.fan.furry:

Here's a few Valentine's Day treats. From this point on, I'm skipping the order #'s. You have the page in the catalog to look in, that'll be good enough.

SOUTHERN TAILS
The Official Newsletter of Furry Weekend Atlanta
December 2005

In this issue...
1. Events at Furry Weekend 2006
2. Programming Spotlight: Untitled
3. Programming Spotlight: Critical Fail
4. Conbook Submissions
5. Registration
6. Art Show
7. Volunteers

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Anthrocon is currently seeking submissions of artwork, fiction, photography, and articles for publication in its 2006 convention book.

For complete guidelines and release form, check out the Anthrocon Conbook Submission Guidelines page at http://www.anthrocon.org/info.cgi/rules-conbook.

The Wyrmkeep Entertainment Co. Newsletter

Publication Date: December 2, 2005

Happy holidays from everyone at Wyrmkeep Entertainment!

Items of Interest:

1) Music from Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb (Audio CD)
2) Fan Art Contest Winners
3) Upcoming Convention
4) Looking Ahead to 2006

tsat.xepher.net (mirror)
tsat.transform.to (main)
www.cafepress.com/tsat (TSAT Mall)
tsat.xepher.net/f0rum (TSAT Forum -- currently inactive)

TSAT #43, the seventh anniversary issue, is online for your reading pleasure. Furdom at large is likely to be most interested in this issue's TBP offerings, as well as the winning entries in Jaggers Pawtucket's RUET Writing Contest.

We have confirmed with the San Jose DoubleTree hotel (our host hotel) that there are no more rooms available to us to offer at the convention rate. As such, for all intents and purposes, the hotel is FULL.

A list of nearby hotels (within a half-mile) is now posted onto our website. Further Confusion cannot guarantee any special rate with these other hotels, so you might wish to shop around for the best rate you can find.

You might still be able to get a room at the DoubleTree, as from time to time there are cancellations that happen between now and convention time. The reservation line is the best way to find that out, by calling +1.408.453.4000.

Or, you might be able to find someone who is offering space in a room, by checking out the Ride/Room Share section of our Forums.

A few months of being offline we would like to announce the return of DFS (Department of Furry Safety). Despite the website only being a year old, it is no doubt gaining the deep interest of furry fans around the world. The Department of Furry Safety was created to offer a new type of badge to the furry community.

More information can be found at the website
http://dfs.furtopia.org

After a couple of years of raising funds to buy a newer computer with a scanner/printer, I'm happy to report that I'm bringing Wild Angels back to the Web.

Its location Ursine.ca

The comic will be hosted without commercial interruption by the hobbyist hosting site Ursine, and will for the first time be held on a Wikimedia-powered site, using the same Wiki markup language used by Wikipedia.

The Anthro Fandom Convention Information Sheet has been updated for the year. For 2005, on 18 conventions listed, we had a total of 9130 attendees. That works out to a total annual attendance growth of approximately 13%. For next year, I know the convention count increases to 19 and if we even make 10% growth we might just break the 10,000 mark.

Thank you to the folks who get me their numbers and, as always, corrections and additions are greatly appreciated. I try to do the best I can on the numbers and any mistakes are purely my own.

If you want to peruse the entire chart, it is located here:

http://www.mustelid.com/otterhall/afcis.html

David Cooksey