Canadian author Kenneth Oppel, author of Silverwing and Sunwing, has a rather interesting and well done website about these and his other works.

A couple of items that I thought were of particular interest. One is a gallery of images from Silverwing from several different sources. The other is that the third book in this series, Firewing, will be released this month in Canada and later this year in several other countries, though not in the USA until spring 2003 (of course, there's nothing to prevent impatient American fans from ordering through a Canadian bookseller such as Chapters Indigo).

From ToonZone.net: For the first time in history, Pokemon has fallen off the Lycos Top 50 searches after holding a spot for 136 weeks, since the list's inception. Replacing it are such anime fare as Jackie Chan, Dragonball, and Zoids.

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27795

Greg the Bunny brought in the highest ratings numbers for FOX's Young-Adult category in two years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54342-2002Apr2.html

Wacky, self-purported "gene-artist" scientist genetically alters white-rabbit to glow flourescent green when "charged" with a special blue light!

Extensive documentation can be found at his website.

Eduardo Kac, the scientist behind his flourescent pet's creation, casually explains how he grafted jellyfish DNA into a white rabbit to get the interesting phosphorescent effect.

BEIJING — A woman breast-fed a rare monkey back to health after its life was endangered when its real mother ignored it after giving birth, the China Daily newspaper reported Monday.

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The five planets we can see with our naked eyes (assuming you don't live in a bright city like I do) will be in the same part of the sky at the same time. This display will be easy to spot in most parts of the world, but it's not an alignment. It's a less glamourous and omnious clump.
Mercury,Venus, Mars, and Saturn will start converging in the same region of the sky on April 20th, and will be closest (within a span of 10 degrees) on May 4th. Jupiter will be a bit higher away.
Doomsday predictions, begin!

Bangladesh has seen a soaring rate of tiger maulings this year, with 22 people killed in the last three months, compared to 24 in the entirety of last year.
Wildlife officials blame poaching, which has halved the tiger population in the last 5 years. They say it's taught the remaining tigers to consider man an enemy

April Fools Day is over, but ToonZone had a wildly elaborate parody website set up, headlined by Cheney Boo. You can still view it here:

http://follies.toonzone.net/

For those who attended Pawpet Megaplex or those who did but would like to see what went on here is a link the pictures from the con website: http://www.pawpet.org/cp.php3?forcecon=mp2002 The items of interest are the Fursuit group pictures, new costumes,staged photography, folks working the con, people attending, events, gaming, the variety show and general documentation of the con which was held March 8-10th. Feel free to look through the pictures and caption those with your witty comments.

The Seattle P-I reports in an Associated Press story that Ray Bradbury, the author of "The Martian Chronicles," "Farenheit 451," "Something Wicked This Way Comes," and other classic science fiction and fantasy stories, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The Room block for ConFurence 2002 (April 26 to April 28, 2002) at the Hilton Burbank Airport has been extended!

However, when extending our room block, the hotel used a different Group Code for making reservations, which is causing some confusion. The old Group Code of "COF" will cause the online reservation system to say that no rooms are available, because our new Extended Room Block is listed now with the 3-letter Group Code of "COG".

We apologize to anyone who had difficulty this weekend booking their room through the Hilton.com online reservation system. Try again with the Group Code "COG" and you shouldn't have any problems.

Selling room nights at the hotel is the only way that our meeting space is paid for, and to Thank those of you who are staying at the hotel, we are offering a Discount on At-door registrations, rolling the price back to $35 if you have a room at the Hilton.

Have your hotel reservation confirmation number handy when you arrive at the convention to show that you have reserved a room, and our registration staff will give you the discount when you purchase your membership.

The oryx-loving lioness has adopted a third baby oryx.

For those keeping track, the first adopted oryx was killed by other lions. The second adopted oryx was placed in a zoo because it showed signs of malnutrition.

Check out some pics of the storyboards for the upcoming Baby Looney Tunes.

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27466

Have a look at Foxyden if you have any interest in furry writing, either as a reader or a writer.

There are two particular items of interest at this site. First, the site admin is trying to restore all the content that used to reside on the now-defunct Furry Pleasures websites, and is having difficulty locating some of the authors to get their permission. If you or someone you are in touch with has written stories that used to be on Furry Pleasures, please contact T'fox.

Second is a continuing, expanding story called The Furryventure, which starting from a single scene branches out into multiple storylines, each with more branches, and so forth. Many of the branches point to unwritten episodes, and readers are encouraged to write episodes at any of these endpoints they would like to see continued. Episodes written so far range from mundane to adult to just plain weird, and while the results may not be classic literature, it can be fun to participate in.

Google is arguably the best web search engine out there, so how do they do it?
With pigeons! Thousands of pigeons!
With PigeonRank™, you don't have to look at pages ranked by birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl, like those other search engines.