As tax deadline approaches, have you done yours?

If you made under $27,000 you can usually do your taxes for free online at:

[link]

It's cool, and it can access a lot of your data, including W-2 and 1099s and file electronically.

"The Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation is pleased to offer free online tax preparation and filing to hard working Americans and their families who have an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $27,000 or less, or who are eligible to claim the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) using Intuit's TurboTax® for the WebSM service."

"If you are one of the approximately 60 million American taxpayers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $27,000 or less for 2002, or who can claim the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), you qualify!"

Attention Seattle-Area Buffistas!

I have a copy of Tuesday's show, which, as we know, is being PRE-EMPTED for baseball. I am willing to host some sort of "We Won't Wait Until Sunday" Buffy thing, if there is interest.

Please email me at the profile address if this sounds at all appealling.

SEATTLE-AREA SCREW BASEBALL, WE'RE WATCHING BUFFY! BASH ADDENDUM

There's enough interest that, natch, I'll be having and hosting. This does mean I'll be cleaning (ugh), but hey! Buffy! At the Regular Time!

When: 8:00 PM, PDT

Where: Casa Marcontell

Need directions? Shoot me an email.

Danke!

Voting announcement!

There is a proposal being discussed.

Discussion: NOW – 4/18/03 11:59 pm EST Voting: 4/19/03 12 am EST - 4/22/03 12:00 am EST

PROPOSAL: The following procedure will be in place for warning a poster about unacceptable behaviour. . 1. A user-complainant will try to resolve the complaint on-thread. If unsuccessful,
2. A user-complainant (does not need to be same person) will post in-thread that it's time to meet in Bureaucracy.
3. A user-complainant posts in Bureaucracy outlining complaint and linky citations, and requests a Warning.
4. At least 10 other users in 24 hours second the need for a Warning.
5. Stompy sets forth a Warning over email and in Bureaucracy.

Proposer: msbelle Seconds Jesse, hayden, Kat., JessPMoon, Laura

Please visit the lightbulb thread to discuss: Thank you!

Hi all,

I've written an article on renewable energy. It argues (with support ) two points;

1) That the most carbon intensive society on earth (The U.S.) could switch to renewables , use no more than it's fair share of carbon (allowing for full poulation growth, at a price lower than it pays now.

2) That what prevents this is due not just lack of full social pricing or even only actions by wicked corporation, nor laziness on the part of ordinary people, but institutional and structural problems built into our economic system.

Both of these take some effort to prove; so it is about 20,000 words not counting references. I'm planning to submit it for publication; additional beta readers are appreciated. My profile addy is good. It is in Microsoft Word format, but I can convert it to just about anything. If you'd like to beta it, let me know - and tell me your preferred format.

Thanks

Gar

NYC/tri-state-istas:

I have two tickets to see Daniel Lanois at the Bowery Ballroom on Friday May 23 that I can't use. The price (with all the service charges, etc.) for both of them is $55.00. If you're interested in them, email me at jen@retina.net.

In Firefly news, AICN already reported this but Tim has now confirmed that Fox will be releasing all the filmed episodes on DVD in 16/9 format. No word yet on release date.

I get the Consumer Safety Alert news letters. I don't usually post them here, but this seemed like it might be something some Buffistas needed to know about, especially vegetarian and vegan Buffistas:

SafetyAlerts.com

White Wave Has Recalled Vanilla Silk Soymilk Reason: May contain a caustic, sodium hydroxide based material used to clean and sanitize manufacturing equipment. Distribution: Nationwide.

And may I just say, yuck.

Hugo Nominations Announced:

Among them:

Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

• Enterprise, "A Night in Sickbay"
• Enterprise, "Carbon Creek"
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Conversations With Dead People"
• Firefly, "Serenity"
• Angel, "Waiting in the Wings"