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4" Penguins in Safety Sweaters Need Help
chrisd writes "We all give lip service to how much we like penguins and such, well a bunch of the "little" penguins (4 inch tall little guys) have been spooged by an oil tanker in southern australia. They need cash to help them take care of the little fellas. They put them in little sweaters and such to keep them from preening the oil off thier wings into thier stomaches, which causes them to die. A picture of them in thier protective gear can be found there or at a my mirror."
Now's your chance to do some good with those zillions of dollars you made from the RedHat and VA Linux IPO's. Let's make some donations.
(I say "Let's", even though I didn't get in on the IPO. )
What's your damage, Heather?
Aww, they are so cute. Looks like a good cause, just dont come running to me for help when some un-cute (bsd?) demons get burnt in the fire!
It took a bit of reading to find anywhere to send money to, but I finally found this:
Donations can be sent to: Phillip Island Penguin Parade, ATT: Penguin Hospital Support Fund P.O. Box 97 Cowes Phillip Island. Victoria. 3922. AUSTRALIA.
The didn't have anyway that I found, in the amount of time I had, to give money online or anything. Darn it those things are cute. Easy to want to help.
Like much in our world, the merchant shipping industry is a haven for jobsworths, tightwads and schemers. Rather than have tanks cleaned properly in port (at a cost) unscrupulous shipowners encourage crews to simply flush them at sea. Stand on any beach near a shipping lane, and you can guarantee there'll be tar-like deposits everywhere from this heinous practise.
... Well, almost every large merchant vessel flies under a flag of convenience. This enables the captain or owners to say ``well, sue me in Liberia''.
There's little governments can do even if they have a fair idea which ships or copmanies are to blame. Do it in international waters, and no-one can get you. And if you get caught
A friend who works as a deck oficcer commented to me once that another problem is hopeless crews. OFficers tend to be trained and conscientius(sp?),
but crews often don't speak the same language as the officers and have no training. In the British merchant navy, many crews are Philipino simply because the owners can get away with paying them shit wages.
Anyways, enough of the ranting. I just hope no more of these little penguins succumb to the oil.
Chris Wareham
It is interresting how the hearts of all the techno-loving, junk-food-n-plastic eating hackers all feels sad for an animal. Perheaps not as strange, an OS has done it. But, to be honest, there are a lot of spiecis suffering from unlawfull chasing and from environmental destroying garbage. Please, everyone, try to help all of them, not just the one lyckily selected as the logo for Linux. They do have the same right to a good life filled with gras and baths (Or what the speiece in question values), as you have to one filled with cool hardware and free software!
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Money is everythingin a case like this - perhaps some of the newly succesful Linux companies could use this to boost their image? :)
Sounds disgustingly corporate, but I dont see any international agencies that arent charities/enviro groups that have guaranteed funding existing to take care of this.
The penguins wont care where the money comes from, I can tell you that.
Dont you all know its the corporations that have to take care of our environment and community now? Havent you seen those Saturn commercials?
Just to make a really unpopular but important statement while Im at it: wasnt it found to be a waste of money to save animals from the Valdeez spill? Didnt they die anyway? Couldnt that money be used better to cleanup the spill unless saving these few animals will keep a population from crashing or becoming endangered?
Remember, CUTE AND CUDDLY doesnt important make. Just cuz they're cute penguins doesnt matter as much as their position in the food chain and how other populations rely on them. Money should go where its really needed, not where the population, guided by what animals make cute stuffed toys, thinks it should.
Math
A company was recently hired to produce thousands of 4 inch tall sweaters specially designed to fit penguins. Sweaters, Inc. was listed as having better than expected earnings for the 4th quarter. The President of the U.S. has been quoted as saying, "The influx of new jobs that have been created because of the penguin crisis has been a boon to the international community."
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Phillip Island's penguin colony is a great place to visit (I was there many years ago). The penguins all come from the sea to feed their chicks at roughly the same time in the evening. You can watch this from bleachers at the beach.
Whoever dumped the slick off Phillip Island should be fed to sharks.
Phillip Island Penguin Parade
att: Penguin Hospital Support Fund
P.O. Box 97
Cowes
Phillip Island. Victoria. 3922. AUSTRALIA.
But it would also be interesting to make sure that this
doesn't continue to happen -- for any animals! What
organisations exist that help prevent that these polluters
get away?
Seems ideal for Secure Linux!
Work for Change & GET PAID!
So what is being done to punish the oil company? Which company is responsible, are they investigating the cause? Who is being held accountable for this? Someone needs to get their ass handed to them on a platter for dumping a bunch of oil in our ocean!
Kintanon
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I just visited webcertificate.com and got my free webcertificate which comes already charged with a free $5 worth of credit. If ThinkGeek could set up a SKU, I'd be glad to donate the $5 to the cute little guys.
As mentioned in another post, this would be great way for anyone who is now filthy rich due to the Linux related stock craze to ease their open source conscience.
(By the way, is conscience the opposite of science?)
Work for Change & GET PAID!
Why would they not just clean them off and let them go? It would kill them. Why clean the birds and then let them die?????
According to the story they are cleaned with solvents and then kept in a penguin hospital in the little sweaters until they test waterproof and then they are released. The cleaning strips away their natural oils and they would freeze if they were released quickly. The sweaters prevent the penguin from trying to clean themselves and thus getting poisoned. From the sounds of it, they also keep them warm.
--- If you don't want to know the answer, don't ask the question.
FYI -
According to a colleague of mine who lived for a time in Oz, it is possible to send U.S.-drawn checks to Australia. The recipient, however, will have to pony up the exchange rate difference and possibly pay a fee to their bank to take the deposit.
Note that large banks (Citibank, Harris, etc.) usually will sell you a money order drawn in foreign currency, if you want to save the Penguin People from the evil bank fee collectors.
Really big banks can probably even sell you authentic Australian currency, but we cannot recommend sending that by mail.
-Sharv
Orwell, I tried my best! :)
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Sure, but only if they wear those sombreros as well.
Why don't we nominate the penguins for the "Most deserving to win $2000.00" beanie thing? That'd certainly help them out, and they'd probably put it to very good use. Even if the awards are distributed after the crisis is over, the association which is taking care of the penguins will be in the middle of a major cash crunch and I'm sure that they could use it.
disclaimer: opinions contained therein are not neccessarily those of my employer.
Poor little guys. And a cause as worthy as any.
/. voting box on a secure and validated site. You select the amount to donate, click the donate button, and your contribution is added to the fund.
On the off-topic side though, I wonder what the result of the slashdot effect would be when applied to charitable donations... Say, $10 from everyone who visits the site. Maybe even less.
Has anyone out there done any work with electronic cash? Say: putting an amount into an online account, and then clicking on a URL to have a certain amount transfered to the cause..
I know, the fraud potential is huge, so security comes up, but consider... Something a'la
Even contributions of e-pennies per person would amount to considerable funds when coupled with the slashdot effect.
-- What you do today will cost you a day of your life.
They should be thanked, for bringing about the greatest fashion breakthrough in Penguin history.
**>>BELCH
One source that confirms this
Probably none, or not much. Most oil spills are cleaned up by NGO environmental groups, volunteers, and by state/federal governments. Usually the companies responsible for the spill gets off with at most a slap on the wrist. The one case where the oil company actually got a little more than a slap on the wrist (Exxon for the spill in Alaska) they still haven't paid their fines. They keep appealing and getting out of some fines. Besides, the amount they got fined was no where near the cost of cleanup or the cost of the destruction. The entire area had it's ecosystem destroyed, the economies of several towns were destroyed. The way of life for many native american people in the region was destroyed. Exxon should of had it's chartered revoked, it's assets liquidated, and that money should of gone to clean up and repair the region. People in America seem to have forgotten, there once was a time when the people had power over the corporations. http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/28/usa.html
Good idea! If I had any mod points I'd moderate
you up!
Here's a link to a larger picture and more information from an ausie newspaper. /news/20000104/A5181-2000Jan3.html
http://www.theage.com.au
I noticed a few different people complaining about how people were being shafted here, how there is much suffering a poverty among people and, for some reason, they think that it must be addressed at the expense of the animals.
Now, before you jump to the conclusion that I'm some maniac tree-huggers, let's look at this plain and scientific.
Case 1: The suffering people, lacking food, shelter etc. Who screwed them over? Who benefited from their misery? Well, other people. So people caused the problem there. We did it to ourselves. We are all equally guilty.
Case 2: The animals have no involvement, they don't squander resources, kill for no reason, elect republicans, or hurt homosexuals. They are therefore innocent, as a species, and by the same speciest reasoning that people use to put them last, they should be put first.
The same is true of most other species we consider "cute": "Babe" wouldn't have half its resonance if it were about a wild boar raised by a wolf pack who learns wolflike methods of hunting rams. Up until the century just passed, most children's stories, either "Western", or traditional, rarely cast wild animals as sympathetic characters: they were usually cast, even in vegetarian India and hunter-gatherer tribes, as being caricatures of humanity's gross and ignoble nature. A hundred years ago, educators warned parents that buying their daughters "Roosevelt's cubs" would pervert their maternal instinct away from their future roles as wives and mothers. (Sorry, guys, you're about 90,000 years too late...) Today, teddy bears share their toy chests with such perverse beasts as mandrills, owl-like Furbies, seals, and even (gasp!) penguins with Linuxmall buttons on them, as concerns as diverse as The Nature Conservancy and Mc Donald's find that the best way to popularize the plight of endangered species is to make plush animals in their image. Deer are now a problem in many suburban neighborhoods -- no one wants to shoot Bambi's mother. (Mice, which eat everything, crap everywhere, and spread fleas and microbes, are a sore point with many people, thanks to the same concern -- we now project our disgust on rats.) Bears are dangerous, destructive, beasts, who also invade human settlements -- who wants to draw a bead on Pooh?
True, there aren't many ways of cutesifying snail darters. Most of the animals who occupy an important position in the food chain aren't all that glamorous (with the exception of rodents). But who wants to read zoological data to their kids at bedtime, or snuggle up to an ecocensus report at the end of the day?
In keeping with the communitarian spirit of Linux, perhaps there ought to be a permanent Penguin fund set up with the Audubon Society, with contributions from Linux-minded people and groups. Such proposal has been made before, and would do much to popularize both causes in a way that would be truly commensal.
"'Cause penguins are so sensitive, to my needs." --Lyle Lovett.
teleny, friend of cats.
(Yes, I know the individual penguins didn't forget or figure out anything about flying any more than I figured out that an upright stance frees the forelimbs for carrying stuff.)
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You cannot wash away blood with blood
*BS* - The difference is that history has shown us that PEOPLE can help THEMSELVES. It's just easier for them to sit around on their butts doing nothing and expecting handouts from governments and taxpayers. This tragedy is the direct result of human carelessness, and the penguins (or any animal, for that matter) cannot help themseleves. tree-huggin' republican
However, I have to remind you that there are thousands of poor, homeless, destitute people around the world, dying in streets, suffering in refugee camps, and there are hundreds and thousands (no, that's not a gross over estimation ) of children orphaned by wars and natural disasters.
Each of those human beings is capable of making a choice as to how they live and what resources are available to them. The parents of the starving children chose to continue fucking like rabbits in order to spawn off a whole new generation of starving children. People in refugee camps are there by choice in one way or another, they can pick up and walk somewhere else. Yes, it's hard, no I doubt I'd be able to do it, but it can be done and they have that choice. The penguins have no such option.
I for one have no sympathy for 90% of all poor/homeless/destitute people as I have seen people try to help over and over and over again and the person always ends up back in the gutter. Maybe the homeless in other countries aren't the laziest 3% of the population, but in the US the homeless aren't usually worth helping. Yes I'm a jackass, yes I'm a bastard, but I've tried helping these people and it doesn't work. At least the penguins don't smell like Wild Turkey when they stumble up to me.
All of those orphaned children have relatives somewhere, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, that should be taking care of them. Yes it's too bad they lost their parents, but there should be people there to help them already, my contribution should not be needed.
Mark this as flamebait and a troll if you really want to, but it's the way I feel about sanctimonious bastards that bitch and moan about the plight of the homeless.
Kintanon
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I too visited Phillip Island, when I was a kid. I've loved penguins ever since. It's really an incredible sight, seeing all of these little penguins come wattling out of the surf. They make their way up the sandy beach and to the burrows in the dunes where their noisy, braying, fluffy, and impatient chicks - often bigger than the parents - are waiting. I'm so sorry to see that they've been hurt by an oil slick, and I sure hope this will have no serious impact on the Philip Island population as whole. Does anyone know anything about that, one way or the other????
Oh, and with regard to the comment:
Whoever dumped the slick off Phillip Island should be fed to sharks.
I concur. One limb at a time.Yes! They will release the little fellas with sweaters adorning their fragile bodies. idiot!
"The day they take Linux away from us is the day they pry it from our cold, dead fingers!"
Let's face it, if we coordinated the worlds resources so there weren't thousands of children dying every day, in a couple of decades we'd reach the point that there were thousands of children dying every day again. And the world would be a lot more crowded.
Nobody likes pain, misery, and death, but they are always going to be there. You can shift them around to someone else, or save them up for the next generation, but you can never really reduce them. Everyone must die, and most will go kicking and screaming.
You might say that birth control is the answer, but it will only ever be a temporary solution. There will always be those who don't comply, and their exponential population growth will eventually displace the "responsible citizens." Natural selection favors the breeders. If they are kept in check by force, that is just more of the same misery and death.
You might say that space travel is the answer, but assuming that any human can travel for free at _any_ constant speed, exponential population growth will overtake the cubic growth of the volume humans have reached. Even if humanity achieves methods of instantaneous travel, few believe in an infinite universe; it will get filled up. Something has to keep it in check, and that something will always be death; given that people will almost always accept pain to avoid death, and very few humans have the cold style of mercy (if it is worthy of that name) that would kill people just because they would starve eventually, that means misery.
I help my family, I help my friends, I obey agreements I have made for mutual benefit, but I do not give charity, nor do I agonize over how the money I spend on a snack could have fed some distant family for days (as I used to when my morality was based on the value of survival and happiness of conscious minds). Nor do I care when I hear that some distant people are killing each other, except so far as it may destabilize the world and possibly cause nuclear war.
You may consider this an evil morality, but pure altruism through charity is ultimately a lie, if you look at enough of the world and over a long enough period of time. There are many "positive sum games" out there to encourage cooperation (indeed, expansion into the universe is a worthy accomplishment that would be impossible if we all truly lived "every man for himself"), but remember that ultimately we are all competing for resources. If not in this generation, or the next, then five or fifty down the road.
The standard of living can be raised across the board only by improvement/preservation of the environment. Beauty is a consolation to the hopeless. Nothing is more universally beautiful than nature.
Saving the penguins preserves a beautiful part of the world that is no threat to anyone. As population pressures grow there may be no room for the planet's other inhabitants, but we should preserve what we can. I would rather live in a dangerous, beautiful, interesting world than a safe, boring, comfortable one. I would rather be born into a world of misery and have any slim chance to struggle for life than not be born at all.
That's right!
The occasional story like this - and in particular, the response that arises within the /. community when one is posted - is one of my favorite things about slashdot.
What do I mean by "the response"? Well, over at the Philip Island Preserve site, there have been thirty posts in the last couple of hours from slashdotters, most offering their help in the form of cash, sweaters, or whatever can be done.
This sure makes the Linux community look good - imagine how good it would be if the press picks up on the way that slashdot readers came to help out. And if the story, or the pictures of penguins in sweaters tug at your heartstrings, head on over to the Philip Island site, leave a comment, or better yet, make a donation.
Wild animals are notoriously bad pets. Domesticated animals have been bred for hundreds of years to remove a lot of thier instincts and allow them to be more social around people. Of course if you are lucky one out of many wild animals would have this behavior, that's where breeding starts.
Of course some animals are not domesticated but tend to make good/decent pets such as: fish, most types of non-migratory birds, ferrets(this is debatable because many of them are neurotic furrballs). Snakes aren't too bad of a pet either, but most other reptiles (especially lizards) are a major venture to have as a pet. (except for frogs, although I've always found them to be tricky to feed right, but those are amphibians of course)
A penguin might be okay in a nice large "cage", but I don't think it would be something to put on a leash and walk around the park with, nor something to cuddle up with on the couch and watch some TV together. :P
Also realize that domesticated animals that have gone ferral do not make good pets either. Dingos for example are mostly the same as your pet dog, but they are horrible pets, almost as bad as a pet wolf. Of course you *could* start breeding dingos and after several generations have a decent and useful dog. (although that's a lot of work with little returns, dingos are probally better off without people)
So instead of a penguin for a pet, maybe get a stuffed Tux or a big poster on your wall, or a nice penguin Theme for your favorite window manager.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
I believe humanity rules the earth and when it comes to our survival pitted against the survival of other animals, we come first. If I can only save my dog or my baby from a burning house, the dog's gonna roast. Sorry.
However, that ruling status brings some responsibility with it. We can't go around killing other species off with total indifference or malice, without eventually screwing up the ecosystem we rely for our very survival.
Aside from the 'maybe someone bigger and badder might look at us and judge us by how we treat the weaker animals' aspect that only Patrick Stewart can teach us on TV (for now), it is good karma to save these penguins if you've got the money to burn on it. (And some people do have that kind of money). If you do it you're doing it because you want to, and if you do it without anyone knowing you're doing it for the right reasons, and that is an indicator of a man's character.
Now I for one feel that more money should go to starving kids in Rwanda, or better yet, to the local loaves and fishes in my home town. The real people who should pay for protecting the penguins should be the people who spilled the oil! But since they won't, I won't fault anyone who chips in their place.
My point is I don't see any dead babies or compromised human rights coming from donating to a save-the-penguins campaign. Then again I'm not from PETA or some insane leftist envirowhacko group either.
But I'll say this - I've seen the exact sort of insane animal rights mindset that has driven you to make such an angry bitter post. They are really senseless people who would sell out their own species in a heartbeat (I mean these guys can't even tell if they'd rescue a dog or a baby from a burning house first! gee!), and they deserve 100% of your vitriol. I just think you need to pinpoint these people and give them your hatred, instead of lashing out blindly at anyone who lifts a finger for a lesser animal's sake.
Just my opinion
flame on
BTW: Does anyone know how much those little sweaters cost per unit?
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) are 14" (35cm) tall - not 4" tall! While they look cute, these guys bite - just ask Linus. ;-)
While the oil slick is relatively small (e.g. the French spill), it has come at a particularly bad time for the penguins - they have chicks in their burrows, so Mum and Dad need to fish twice as often. While the number of dead adults is known, I haven't heard how many chicks have starved in the burrows; expect this number to be high.
Well, once again it looks like we've been able, or will be able, to make a difference! From the penguins' web site:
PINP Release (Park Ranger) Fri 9:28amThis response is really fantastic - we are doing up a form page for those wanting to help out. And all the rangers here are *genuinely* moved at this overwhelming show of support. Wish we could show you the Penguin Hospital which is currently crowded by so many Little Penguins, and we will try and get some more pics online in our News Release service. And please keep the notes/emails coming in - this week has been very tiring and stressful. The Island and the Penguins (plus koalas and seals) are more than a job to everyone here. Its hard to explain, but these "wild animals" are very much a part of the life of our Island Community. I hope one day the Linux folk and others will join us for a celbration down here!
All monies raised will be going directly to improving the Little Penguin Hospital facilities in the here and now. Everything IS helping - and your words of encouragement are as meaningful to us as the donations being received. Thankyou! PS Could someone please post this thankyou somewhere ALL the Linux folk etc. can read it? Ta muchly!
and...
Amazing to see the replies coming in from the Linux community - what can we say? Thanks all!
Donations are very much appreciated as th enumber of affected penguins grows over 200 now, and sadly the number of dead is also rising :(
You can send a donation via cheque, postal or money order (probably travellers cheque as well) to:
Phillip Island Penguin Parade
att: Penguin Hospital Support Fund
P.O. Box 97
Cowes
Phillip Island. Victoria. 3922. AUSTRALIA.
Email to: penguins@penguins.org.au (we WILL reply ASAP to all enquiries)
On the programming side, we have just installed three (3) live online internet "kiosks" in our Visitor Centre. These are due to be up and running this week, delayed a little by the current crisis. Currently the three PC's are networked to a UNIX server, however we have been seriously investigating how to get a Linux box in place.I'm still on a learning curve with Linux, and must confess that it was Linux's use of the Little Penguin that first attracted me to the free/community OS. Programming enquiries to: penguins@ozgurus.com
Thanks and have a good one all!
From the site in the article:
http://www.penguins.org.au/chat/index.html
there is now a link near the top to a form for online donations by credit card. If you don't want to look at the news and chat page on the penguin site, you can go direct to
https://www.penguins.org.au/medi a/helpinghand.html
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
The Philip Island Nature Park now has a form available for credit card donations. That should take care of the currency-conversion problems.
According to the rangers on the site, " All monies raised will be going directly to improving the Little Penguin Hospital facilities in the here and now."
Each time you click the button, you give about 4 or 5 cents. Sending $20/year directly to the UN World Food Program is more effective than visiting the Hunger Site every day (and lets face it, you'll miss days), and takes less effort.
However, the site itself says that 3/4 of the people starving are children under 5. Practically every mouthful goes directly into increasing overpopulation in areas where people can't feed themselves. Feed one starving child today, watch six children starve twenty years from now.
(BTW, I think the suggestion was that sending money to wash off penguins was not as good as sending money to feed starving children)
Charity, too, is oppression.
- the following
- link suggest this may not be the case...check your sources first.
...It is believed the oil came from the pumping out of a ship's bilge, rather than a tanker spill, though neither the Environment Protection Authority nor the Maritime Board was able to confirm this yesterday. An EPA analysis of the oil is expected today...
links:if you want to ask questions go to the source...here - (http://www.penguins.org.au/chat/index.html)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000104/A5181-2000
http://www.penguins.org.au/chat/index.html
peterrenshaw ~ Another Scrappy Startup
Great job, everyone!!! I just stopped by the Phillip Island site again, and there are scores of slashdot readers who have stopped by, taken advantage of the on-line credit-card-based donation form, and chipped in for this great cause, just the last few hours. Of course I did the same.
More feedback from the rangers as well; this one made my whole day. The rangers there write:
PINP Release (Park Ranger) Fri 11:08amI checked back that invalid certificate thingy which makes some users hesiate from donating. The cert is invalid because it was issued to the domain: www.labyrinth.net.au
i ns&domain=.org.au&moreinfo=1)
.org.au
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; penguins.org.au, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
;; Total query time: 271 msec
;; FROM: vserve4.netregistry.au.com to SERVER: munnari.oz.au 128.250.22.2
;; WHEN: Fri Jan 7 20:33:39 2000
;; MSG SIZE sent: 33 rcvd: 273
When checking DNS entries a little you can find that they are the providers for penguins.org.au. (See the domain info taken from http://www.nic.au below or online at ht tp://www.nic.au/cgi-bin/multisearch.pl?name=pengu
--------- snip ----------
nslookup -type=NS penguins.org.au
Source: Authorative server for
Server: munnari.OZ.AU
Address: 128.250.1.21
Non-authoritative answer:
penguins.org.au nameserver = rip.psg.COM
penguins.org.au nameserver = warrane.connect.COM.AU
penguins.org.au nameserver = yarrina.connect.COM.AU
penguins.org.au nameserver = minotaur.labyrinth.NET.AU
Authoritative answers can be found from:
rip.psg.COM internet address = 147.28.0.39
warrane.connect.COM.AU internet address = 192.189.54.33
yarrina.connect.COM.AU internet address = 192.189.54.17
minotaur.labyrinth.NET.AU internet address = 203.9.148.2
dig -t any penguins.org.au
; > DiG 8.2 > @munnari.oz.au penguins.org.au -t
; (2 servers found)
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS rip.psg.COM.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS warrane.connect.COM.AU.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS yarrina.connect.COM.AU.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS minotaur.labyrinth.NET.AU.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS rip.psg.COM.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS warrane.connect.COM.AU.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS yarrina.connect.COM.AU.
penguins.org.au. 1D IN NS minotaur.labyrinth.NET.AU.
rip.psg.COM. 1d21h55m26s IN A 147.28.0.39
warrane.connect.COM.AU. 1D IN A 192.189.54.33
yarrina.connect.COM.AU. 1D IN A 192.189.54.17
minotaur.labyrinth.NET.AU. 1D IN A 203.9.148.2
Actual Server Reply
[ns.aunic.net]
domain: penguins.org.au
descr: Phillip Island Penguin Reserve
descr: (ACN)
descr:
descr: ACT
admin-c: KD202-AU
tech-c: EH201-AU
zone-c: KD202-AU
remarks: Created 19960824
changed: register@aunic.net 19960918
source: AUNIC
person: kieran davies
address: 13/68 gould street
address: frankston
address: VIC 3197
phone: +61 9769 6966
fax-no: +61 9769 6472
e-mail: manmor@labyrinth.net.au
nic-hdl: KD202-AU
remarks: (Organisation) manmor
remarks: (position) manager
remarks: Created 19960918
changed: register@aunic.net 19960918
source: AUNIC
person: Elizabeth Hemphill
address: Level 10, 99 Queen St
address: Melbourne
address: VIC 3000
address: AU
phone: +61 3 9642 4222
fax-no: +61 3 9642 4955
e-mail: domainmaster@labyrinth.net.au
nic-hdl: EH201-AU
remarks: (Organisation) Labyrinth Connections Pty. Ltd.
remarks: Created 19960725
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source: AUNIC
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Greetz
I've already posted this on the Phillip Island page, so maybe I'll get a response from there. As we've suddenly all become so 'concientous' (sp?), is there anywhere that we can adopt/sponsor a penguin via a zoo, wildlife center or similar?? Surely having a picture of a real-life Tux would be far better (if not more cool {sic}) than having a stuffed toy by your monitor. Also, we would be paying your sponsorship each year, thereby ensuring the continued survival of these little critters for years to come and doing our bit to 'save the planet'. Just a thought - maybe someone out there has some knowledge or a contact for this sort of thing. .sig removed by humor-detector. Can't have any of that around here!!