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Pengo, an Australian software developer [1]. Homepage: http://pengo.org/

Pengo maintains WikiProject Ecology: Ecology, Environment and Sustainability

All major contributions by Pengo are dual licensed: GFDL and where possible, the Creative Commons ShareAlike License.

Contents 1 Biology public domain resources 2 Redlist 2006 3 Biological Cleanup! 4 Hacker cleanup 5 More Pengo Pages 6 Photos Awaiting Articles 7 Miscellaneous 8 For My Own Reference (Wiki stuff) 9 Primes 10 Stupid theories on what sets humans apart 11 Speakable articles

[edit] Biology public domain resources

• Insects, their way and means of living archive.org, some nice drawings
• Wikipedia:Public domain image resources

[edit] Redlist 2006

• Cercocebus torquatus and Cercocebus atys have overlapping common names.
• Rhea (bird) needs splitting
• Anoa needs splitting

[edit] Biological Cleanup!

• Tomato article should talk about cherry tomatoes being the normal/primative state
• Mixed-breed dog has messy talk about genetics of hybrids
• Mitochondrial DNA, "unlike nuclear DNA which changes by 50% each generation", ugh.. should be, which recombines during meiosis or something.
• Ecology condense, like soup. see also: Simple English version
• Koala, look at all those gum species without articles!
• Mongoloid, ugh. "often share these traits"
• Plant improvement, pov?

[edit] Hacker cleanup

• Hacker slang and Hacker jargon need to be made into an article. See also: Internet slang.
• Speaking of which. also needing cleanup: Age sex location, and Evil and rude / Evil

[edit] More Pengo Pages

• missing articles
• photos
• fringe science

[edit] Photos Awaiting Articles

• See pengo's photo page
• See also Wikipedia:Images with missing articles or Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
• see also Bug Images in the Public Domain (Webster's) actual list
• the royal society of victoria / Royal Society of Victoria (jpg: this society advances science...)
• Rainbow Serpent Festival
• Solar Powered Vehicle
• Prickly pear (some specific species)
• Bracket fungus (some specific species) photo
• Gresswell forest
• (Note, these photos mostly not uploaded to wikipedia yet)

[edit] Miscellaneous

hey pengo want to know what albert einstein said of henry george "Men like Henery George are rare, unfortunately. One cannor imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keeness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice". - Albert Einstein

[edit] For My Own Reference (Wiki stuff)

• Wikipedia Image List
• Featured articles (vs Pages needing attention)
• Upload page
• Changes related to my user page [2]
• Current Issues (meta.wikipedia)
• Wiki Engines, mediawiki on sf, Recommended: MeatballWiki powered by UseModWiki, or MoinMoin in Python

[edit] Primes

• Prime Numbers - the first 20,000 primes, at Wikisource.
• General number field sieve

[edit] Stupid theories on what sets humans apart

• Imagination
• Sex for enjoyment [and perhaps bonobos]
• Ability to cook tubers
• Running ability (marathon style)
• Scientific curiosity
• Tool use
• Complex society
• Culture

[edit] Speakable articles

Short-beaked Echidna:

• Tachyglossus aculeatus: tăk'ĭ
• Tachyglossus
• Bradiopsylla echidnae: .. -sĭl'ə ( _ + type + echidna)
• Myrmecophaga aculeata (mur-mi-co-faga)
• Ornithorhynchus hystrix *** : Ornithorhynchus is derived from ορνιθορυγχος ("ornithorhynkhos"), which literally means "bird nose" in Greek ɔːnɪθəʉˈrɪŋkəs, ̩ɔːnaɪəʉˈ- (ʉ=Ʊ U+01B1, not ℧ U+2127). Ornitho-rinkus (orithai-)
• Echidna hystrix (hĭs´trĭks = histriks)
• Echidna aculeata
• Zaglossus
• Ornithorhynchidae
• T. a. multiaculeatus (firstly)
• T. a. setosus
• T. a. acanthion
• T. a. aculeatus
• T. a. lawesii (lastly)
• pinnae: pin·nae (pĭn'ē)
• Bradiopsylla echidnae (Echidna flea)
• panniculus carnosus
• genioglossal muscles, genio = dʒɪ'naɪəʉ, glossal = glɒsəl
• sternoglossi
• inspired air
• mechano- and thermoreceptors
• 1.5 mm -> one and a half
• 0.3 and 0.4 grams -> 300 - 400 milligrams (300 milligrams = 0.3 grams)
• milk areolae: a·re·o·lae (ə-rē'ə-lē')
• imbibe: im·bibe (ĭm-bīb')
• fucosyllactose - fyco
• saialyllactose - sire-lil-?
• crepuscular: cre·pus·cu·lar (krĭ-pŭs'kyə-lər)
• Spirometra erinaceieuropaei (tapeworm) - erinace-i|eu|rop'ee ?
• Noongar people (alternate spellings: Nyungar / Nyoongar)
• Nyingarn

Others:

• Featured (bio): Kakapo, Fauna of Australia, Myxobolus cerebralis, Marginated Tortoise, Krill, Island Fox, Orca, Sperm Whale Myxobolus cerebralis, Barbara McClintock, Saffron...
• Featured (computing): Color Graphics Adapter
• Non-featured:Whale shark, ...