Stars' Pyre (aka Kevin Hogue) at age 19, died from massive trama sustained in a fall from one of the UC Berkeley campus buildings on April 4, 2002. Police are so far ruling the death a suicide.

If you are staying at the Hilton Burbank Airport in the ConFurence 2002 room block, you can still buy your at-door membership at the pre-registration price of $35.

At-door memberhsips are normally $45 per person, but to send a SPECIAL THANK YOU to all the people who have been booking rooms at the hotel, we will roll back the At-Door registration price for Hotel guests at ConFurence 2002 to only $35 per person.

Greetings Anthropomorphic Fans!! Its time once again for Further Confusion to shed its annual skin and begin anew for next year. In doing so, a brand new cast of characters, plus some old favorites have been enlisted to bring you next years gala event "Further Confusion: Furries In Wonderland"

My name is Lee Strom, also known as Chairo in the fandom. I am joined by Michael Sawyer, aka Aetobatus as my Vice Chairman. This coming year we intend to bring you a professional, fun and exciting convention. Chock full of entertainment, education and socializing.

Jim Groat's GraphXPress website, home of the popular and infamous "West Corner of the Park" comic strip, has gone down. It appears that the site has become unavailable due to differences of opinion between the web/sitemaster and Jim Groat. The webmaster's side of things can be seen by clicking on the link above.

The NY Times reports how zoos are entertaining their animals. "Snow leopards, in particular, love Calvin Klein's Obsession." (Free registration required.)

Disney has acquired the rights to distribute all future Pokemon material. Previously, it was handled by Warner Bros.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000023995apr04.story

Set your VCRs and TiVos! Cartoon Network is going to re-run their Wartime Cartoons special on Memorial Day (5/26, 9pm EST), which featured four uncensored war-era cartoons you won't see anywhere else. This show was a massive ratings windfall for CN when it originally aired. Support uncensored cartoons!

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/news.html

A rare two headed snake has been found by a Spanish University. The ladder snake has two independant heads which even fight over food. A few months old, it's surprising that the reptile has survived in the wild. It'll be going back with the scientists to live in captivity.

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