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.

CartoonResearch.com reports that a new live action-animation Bugs Bunny film is being worked on. Faint promises suggest that it won't be another Space Jam disaster and that they're going to try to do this one "right". Is that possible anymore? Here's tidbits:

Tentative title: "Back in Action"
Live-action director: Joe Dante
Live-action co-star: Owen Wilson
Screenplay by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra and Larry Doyle
Tentative Release date: Nov 2003

For the full scoop: http://www.cartoonresearch.com/comments.html

The British Forestry Commision is worried that people look at a dark group of trees and think 'Blair Witch'. So they want to turn woods into idyllic, fairy tale like places.

No, not those sort of fairy tales. They want to clear out some of the trees to make artifical glades (filled with bluebells) and make nice, broad paths. They also want to encourage kids to play unsupervised in the woods. Are they sure it's not like a fairy tale?

Just in time for Easter, scientists have managed to clone rabbits.
This of course begs the question, "Sure you can clone rabbits, but why would you want to?"
Apparently, to milk them.

Well, after years of threatening, New Zealand is banning pet ferrets. The article is full of inaccuracies (NO other place overseas has a feral ferret population besides NZ, and NZ's was the result of intentional release of thousands of animals 100 years ago).
If you live in New Zealand, stick up for your friends with ferrets, please!

Cartoon Network made a rather callous and ignorant response to the issue of their banning of Speedy Gonzales, quoted here on Fox News.

As a result, a petition has been started to reinstate Speedy.

LA police use non-uniformed officers in sting operations to catch speeding motorists... but decided do go one better than just not wearing their uniforms.

Read the story here.

Lets have more fursuited policing! :-)

In the search for the perfect security robot in Japan, it's a dog eat dinosaur world.