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Summon Captain Planet for the next Cape Town Geekdinner

6 Comments 09 January 2007

Remember Captian Planet from back in the Mnet Decoder & VHS days? If you dont…

Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television series, created by Ted Turner and produced by Jane Fonda and Nicholas Boxer. The series was developed and animated by TBS Productions and DiC and ran new episodes from September 10, 1990 until 1993. A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, ran from 1993-1996. Both programs continue today in syndication by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The Cape Town Geekdinner page has been updated by CLUG’s Jonathan Carter.

The first Cape Town dinner is on the same date as a CLUG talk (http://wiki.clug.org.za/wiki/CLUG_Meetings) after which the geeks of CLUG also meet for dinner. Perhaps it may be a good idea to combine both dinners into one, then some of the geeks who might be interested in finding out more about Linux and open source could come along to the talk as well?

So what has Captain Planet & the Planeteers have to do with CLUG geeks & Geekdinner Geeks/Marketers? We’ll, In order to summon Captain Planet, the Planeteers must activate their powers in a specific order, followed by the phrase “Let our powers combine;

Your Web AddiCT agrees with Jonathan Carter as Open Source, the CLUG geeks who contribute to the FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) code, is what will most likely power & currently does power morethan half of everything that makes the Internet as we know it tick.

Off topic (sorta): Did you you know the first Internet browser was not Internet Explorer but a free/public domain Internet browser?

PS: We’ve made a slight change to the blog, did anyone notice?

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  • http://www.daveduarte.co.za Dave Duarte

    Epic!

  • http://www.rafiq.za.net/blog Rafiq Phillips

    Dave, ye who proclaims that blogs are conversations. The only difference being typos are embedded into the malapropism. If this is a conversation how would you respond to a one word answer?

  • http://www.maxkaizen.com Max Kaizen

    hahaha… yr so silly sometimes :-P
    it is indeed a flippin EPIC one.. good job mr IQ

  • http://www.captainplanetfdn.org KP Hendry

    Hi.. please check our website for the real scoop on the history of Captain Planet.. Jane Fonda is a friend of the family but had nothing to do with the creation of the show.. check out http://www.captainplanet.com too.. for more info.. No worries.. just ran across this site and thought I would send your comment…

    Best Regards,
    KP Hendry
    Senior Director of Special Projects
    Captain Planet Foundation
    Atlanta, GA 30303

    Go Planet!!

  • http://www.captainplanetfdn.org KP Hendry

    What are your thoughts on this?

  • http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips

    TYFYC KP Hendry – if the wiki is incorrect why do you not change it?




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