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Penguins in popular culture

Penguins are popular around the world, primarily for their unusually upright, waddling pace and (compared to other birds) lack of fear of humans. Their striking black and white plumage is often likened to a tuxedo suit. Perhaps in reaction to this cutesy stereotype, fictional penguins are occasionally presented as grouchy or even sinister. Penguins have also been the subject of many books and documentary films such as Happy Feet and Surf's Up, both CGI-Animated Animal Adventure Films, March of the Penguins, a documentary based on the migration process of Emperors, and a parody film entitled Farce of the Penguins. Mistakenly, some artists and writers have penguins based in the North Pole. This is incorrect as there are almost no wild penguins in the northern hemisphere, and those only barely (northernmost of the Galápagos). Penguins have also found their way into a number of cartoons and television dramas, perhaps the most notable of these is Pingu - created by Silvio Mazzola in 1986 and covering more than 100 short episodes.

This will be where you find all things "ORAC"

• NAME: Orac
• BORN: Aristo
• STATUS: Highly Sophisticated Computer
• FIRST APPEARANCE: Ensor's Laboratory, Aristo.
• QUIRKS: Dislikes work, Stroppy, Delusions of Grandeur.
• INTERESTS: Analysing limericks and jokes. Investigating black holes
• CRIMES: Tapping into all computers using Tarial cells.

For those of you don't know, Orac Lives aboard the Liberator along with the crew of Blakes' 7. Some of you may notice a certain similarity between Orac and a good deal of contemporary case mods. The thing is that the BBC created this masterpiece in the 1970's and it is still in our rather deranged little minds the best looking case we have ever seen.Encodist and the Black Raven dream every night about creating Orac 2 (during the intervals between girls with soldering irons). However, we do not even own a Dremmel between us. So if you have ever built Orac or even have an old Dremmel hanging about that you would like to donate to a worthy cause we would love to know.