The Animal Defense Militia is an underground movement of covert operatives committed to preserving the autonomy and merriment of non-human vertebrates through any means necessary.

Okay, okay... it's really a very funny parody of PETA. Be sure to check the list of directors

The Schedule of events at ConFurence 2002 is now online in Adobe PDF Format.

You can download, view, and/or print the CF2002 schedule grid at confurence.net/cf2002/ProgramGrid.pdf if you have the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your system.

ASIFA-Hollywood has formed the Cartoon Hall of Fame and is taking votes for who should be inducted. Participate via the following URL:

http://www.cartoonhalloffame.org/

ToonZone has a short interview with Disney's Country Bears movie director Peter Hastings. There's also a link to the movie's trailer on the website.

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Greetings from Midwest FurFest!

Remember us? We remember you! And we hope you'll keep November 22-24 free on your calendar. It may be a long way off, but we're already working on what we think will be a most excellent third edition of MFF.

Monster's Inc has become the 2nd highest grossing animated film of all time, just barely behind The Lion King. In the same article, Pixar announces its next three films.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020421/nysu020_1.html

You can also view a still from Pixar's next film, Finding Nemo, here:

http://www.animationblast.com/

While it's long been a popular move by individuals and corporations seeking an edge in today's Internet-aware economy to grab domain names that might be accessed by individuals who either mistype a URL or aren't aware of the proper URL (example: www.whitehouse.com is a porn site while www.whitehouse.gov is the legitimate home page of the United States White House) in an attempt to gain exposure or business, it hasn't been up until now that this tactic has been used in addition to loading the website in such a way that search engines such as Google will return them as the most likely hit and appear as if it was the genuine article.

In light of the recent debate in regards to the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, some folks might be interested in learning more about this national treasure. With the popularity of Google these days, some people might be intrigued to find that the first hit when searching Google for "ANWR" takes them to a site that advocates the proposal to drill for oil within the site. Intrigued? So was I.

The Museum of Cartoon Art has been reduced to just a one-room exhibit and, $2 million in debt, is likely to soon have its contents sold off to Yale.

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Two Men were freed from jail after torturing and killing a cat, under the grounds of it being "performance art"

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The SciFi Channel has recently announced that it will do a remake of the TV series 'Battlestar Galactica', to be headed by Ronald Moore ('Roswell', 'Mission: Impossible 2'). This news has been met with surprise and dismay by 'X-Men' producer Tom DeSanto, who had spent last year developping a 'Galactica' project of his own with Vivendi/Universal, and by the fans of the show, who were looking forward to DeSanto's project.
The fans have started online petitions as a protest for this turn of events.

(Posted from CFStaff forum. Original message by David Bliss on 4/16/2002)

Are you planning to come to ConFurence 2002 armed with a video camera? I am again attempting to coordinate video taping for the official highlights tape.

As I am also running a dealers table there is only so much I can cover myself. Not to mention there will be up to five tracks of programming running at any one time. It would be nice to know that others are covering important events such as Meet the Guests and the Artist Jam.

If you just want to wander around grabbing shots of whatever catches your eye that is fine too. But please give me a chance to copy your tapes either at the con (there will be equipment on site) or afterwards.

SciFi Wire is reporting that the 2001 have been announced. The Hugo winners are chosen each year by the attendees of the World Science Fiction Convention, this year known as ConJose. Notable this year is the special catagory of Best Website, which has not been offered before. More information can be found here

It's never too early to register for a con. Especially when it's the best little convention in the Pacific Northwest: Conifur! Send in your registration now and get the low membership rate of $25. Just be sure that you send that registration to our new address: Conifur Northwest, 1911 SW Campus Drive, PMB 380, Federal Way, WA 98023.

An urgent email went out today to Rabbit Valley Books customers regarding Jim Hardiman's medical emergency: complications surrounding his diabetes are causing problems that, without surgery, threaten blindness. Instructions on how to help follow...

According to this article at MSNBC, the Senate shot down the plan to drill for oil in the Alaska Arctic Wildlife Refuge. However, there is still potential life for it as it is a very large part of the energy bill passed by the House -- so the battle isn't over yet. My recommendation is to continue to write your representatives and let them know where you stand on this issue!