The online nominations form for the 2003 Ursa Major Awards has just been activated:

Fans now have the option of nominating online directly, as well as by e.mail or regular mail c/o Fred Patten. Full instructions are on the Ursa Major Awards website. The online nominations form is brand-new, so if anyone discovers any glitches in it, please notify us immediately.

Released at Further Confusion, a consortium of artists has created a new CD-ROM project featuring the artwork of Equis, Fel, Fennec, FoxxFire, Green Monkey, Guppy, Grrrwolf, Ian R. Soulfox, Nanimoose, and Wookiee. FAP Session One is available directly from the artists or through Rabbit Valley.

The action is starting to heat up around CACE as we count down to only four months before our third convention. First of all, CACE is proud to announce Jen Seng (the artist of the popular comic strip "Boondocks" and a fine cartoonist and illustrator in her own right) as our Cartoonist/Comic Artist Guest of Honour. Jen joins well-known fantasy artist Heather Bruton as a guest this year. As well, we're adding a dance after the Chocolate Social this year for those who like a bit of music and excitement. We're busily working on the programming grid right now, and will have more details at our next update.

Watts Martin, longtime furry fan, writer, and publisher, has been talking about the state of the fandom in his blog, recently. Always a controversial subject, I think Watts makes some good points in his commentaries. Go take a look at the first entry, and then the followup entry.

British techno producer Overseer (most known for soundtracks in movies like Snatch and Animatrix) has released a video 'Horndog' that contains fursuiters and actually make them look cool, sexy, good looking, and a bit dangerous. This is the best publicity I can imagine for the subculture. You can watch the full video on tne news page of this site.