User:Chriswaterguy/Scratchpad

This is mostly a place for me to add and delete ideas, for a new page or category or major edit or some research I need to do.

If you wish to leave a comment or message, please do so at my talk page.

Things to mention to Aston, James, David...

 * Advice to Tor users in China

Things to read

 * The Fringer on curriculum & Thailand

Current conversations & small projects

 * Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation
 * Talk:Wheelchair
 * Engineering Wiki - Talk:Main Page
 * Edible salt & Talk:Edible salt
 * South Atlantic tropical cyclone - rewrite opening.
 * Category talk:Organization stubs
 * Category:Drinking water - & new Category:Water treatment
 * Talk:Cloth filter
 * Talk:Geoffrey Blainey
 * Wikipedia_talk:To-do_list (& Template namespace if I'm editing...?)
 * Template:Todo nocat
 * Talk:Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
 * Talk:Small Is Beautiful

lih. wiki ekonomi partai hijau...

3 February 2006 University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (*Cloth filter)

Things to do on my page
*todo box: - stole from User:MarkGallagher

pages to check

 * Talk:English spelling
 * Talk:Indonesian language
 * Talk:Javanese language
 * Talk:Blue law
 * Talk:Basil
 * Talk:Bill Bryson
 * Talk:Anomie
 * Talk:Ken Livingstone
 * Talk:Pinyin
 * Talk:Indonesia
 * Talk:Daylight saving time
 * Talk:List of languages by number of native speakers

& http://www.google.com.au/search?q=singkong2005+&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N&filter=0 to double check. & user pages that haven't responded?

Check every so often: next MARCH 06

 * Talk:Colugo - who decides what group it's in?
 * Holy Basil & Tulsi - need citations.
 * Indonesian language & Talk:Indonesian language
 * Abangan & Javanese beliefs
 * Talk:Bill Bryson
 * Wikipedia_talk:Babel
 * Talk:Bharat Ratna
 * Wikipedia talk:Babel Category problem
 * Talk:HTML element
 * Talk:Difference between a butterfly and a moth

Other sites to check, related to Wikipedia:
 * Watch http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/01/22.html#a1156

Replies a long time coming - check again MAY 06

 * Talk:Rojak
 * Talk:List of borrowed words in Indonesian - several topics
 * Talk:Indonesian slang language
 * Talk:Differences between Malay and Indonesian

Check in July 06

 * Talk:Sophie Heathcote
 * Talk:Mango
 * Talk:Cassava 2 topics

Conversations that have pretty much petered out
Maybe:
 * Talk:Water purification

Probably:
 * Talk:Sex tourism

Definitely (issue resolved, or not important to me):
 * Talk:Sago
 * Talk:Jackfruit
 * Talk:Wilayah
 * Talk:Nanjing
 * Talk:Benzoin resin
 * Talk:Bat
 * Talk:Melbourne Cup

Pages that seem to need personal unverifiable knowledge
a lot of the fruits & other foods.
 * Rojak

Appropriate technology
Often will be more sustainable by virtue of lower resource use. however, this is not necessarily the main intention.
 * overlaps with sustainable technology, alternative technology, and usage sometimes reflects confusion or melding of these concepts.

check Technology

http://www.researchinformation.co.uk/apte.php

Giardia needs more work:
 * ===Prevention===
 * Treatment of drinking water for Giardia typically involved some form of high efficiency filtration and/or chemical disinfection such as chlorination or ozonation.


 * check Green syndicalism,


 * check Simple living, esp:
 * it's important to realise that the Luddites acted not because of a philosophy of voluntary simplicity, but because the new automated looms threatened their livelihoods. In a society with no social welfare system, this meant that they faced desperate privation - and their fears were realised when automated looms took over and skilled hand-loom weavers and their families endured awful poverty and even death by starvation.

Mention also Ted Turner, and the question of whether it is a suitable and necessary solution to environmental issues.

Add to category
google
 * "Appropriate technology" site:wikipedia.org

or click: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%3A%22Appropriate+technology%22+site%3Awikipedia.org+

Development
Engineers Without Frontiers - non-US still in existence?

Categories
I have a dilemma with Category:Appropriate technology advocates. Organizations such as Engineers for a Sustainable World and Engineers Without Borders don't necessarily talk about appropriate technology on their websites, so I can't justify putting them in that category. Yet, by virtue of being engineering based and dealing with development at a village level, this is a focus in reality. (I know it's a focus for Engineers Without Borders (Australia), having just been to their website.

A partial solution is to link to Appropriate technology for developing countries - Organizations from the article on the organization. However, organizations such as Engineers for a Sustainable World still don't show up in the category. Hmmm.

http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/article.php?id=24716 : a Buffalo University publication:
 * Kelly Miller, a sophomore environmental engineering major and president of ESW, is currently working to amend this problem and find a reasonable solution for the university. The club, a local chapter of a national organization, formed after a group of UB engineers attended a national convention at Stanford and were inspired to develop a chapter of their own.


 * The group now hopes to apply the ideas of the national organization in the local UB area.


 * "The national organization promotes developing sustainable technologies for third-world countries as well as domestic issues," Miller said. "We're focusing on domestic energy issues right now, mainly biodiesel."

Hernando de Soto (economist)

 * the so called Fujishock had devastating social consequences. - research or

look into the criticisms section in Hernando de Soto (economist). Any assessment of the impact of the reforms?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/pe/pe_economic.html - history

Microfinance
http://www.grameen.org.au/ Australian Bangladeshi Community Grameen Support Group www.grambangla.com Microfinance needs its own article; +more info on Investment Groups

Cooperatives
Bangladesh dairy cooperative lifts farmers out of poverty Milk Vita, independent of aid for 10 years, expanded milk production, improved cow care and set an example for private dairies

Energy
Stirling Solar Disk

Foundations/Charities
Foundation Center http://www.pbs.org/toourcredit/resources_one.htm

Urban planning
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ZOb0CrZ7MbcJ:www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm20.htm+Susan+Handy+%22Sustainability+and+Cities%22&hl=en or check email with subject Land Use Impacts on Transport, 7 January

maybe: http://www.bts.gov/publications/journal_of_transportation_and_statistics/volume_04_number_23/paper_05/index.html

Jeremy Bentham and nonsense upon stilts
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonscnse, -- nonsense upon stilts. --Anarchical Fallacies, excerpted passage at http://www.ditext.com/bentham/bentham.html
 * Critique of the Doctrine of Inalienable, Natural Rights by Jeremy Bentham

+see Jeremy Bentham

Kejawen?
When living in East Java, locals referred to those of traditional Javanese beliefs as Kejawen. Is this the same as Abangan? This page (Indonesian language) says they are the same and so does Religion a Necessity in Indonesian Politics, though I thought they were different.

Practices:
 * praying at graves
 * hari baik
 * slamatan
 * burying placenta, twin spirit in tree

Comments by a learned Indonesian friend:

 * In my opinion "abangan" and "kejawen" are not the same. "Abangan" means people who admit that they are Moslems but never practice Islam (do not perform Islamic prayers, fasting, pilgrim, etc.). They are also often called "Islam KTP". KTP is the abbreviation of Kartu Tanda Penduduk (ID card), meaning that they write Islam as their religion for the purpose of having KTP (remember that in Indonesia, it is unlawful to be an atheist). Actually, "abangan" derives from the Javanese word "abang", which means "red". I do not know why Indonesian people associate the Moslems who do not practice Islam with "red" color. But, as a matter of fact, this is the way Indonesians distinguish "not good moslems" from "good moslems". For "good moslems" or people who obediently practice Islamic rules, they are often called "ijo" (javanese word of "hijau" or green). That is why most Islamic political parties in Indonesia use Green as the color base for their party symbols.


 * "Kejawen" are everybody (could be Moslems, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, etc) who still perform Javanese ways of life or believes. For example, people who still believe "hari baik" (fortunate days) to move in to their new house, or "hari baik" to get married, or choose their spouses based on their "weton" (Javanese birthday), are called "Kejawen". As a matter of fact, many good Moslems, Christians, Hindus, etc also perform "Kejawen", although for conservative Moslems, performing "Kejawen" can be regarded as "syiriq" (do not trust Allah). Kejawen derives from the word "Jawa" (Java).


 * I hope my explanation can be useful for you. --Dec 19, 2005

and later:
 * Unfortunately, until now I do not know any publication that you can rely on to support what I had written in my previous email. I based my opinion only on what I learn in my family, my society, various newspaper articles, things like that. I will let you know soon if I can find any good sources related to "abangan" topic. --Dec 19, 2005

Music to look up
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late. only wednesday...

Other
"I'd eat shit if it made me look (cool/good)" MurderCapital cigarettes.

Misc
Add term Javanism to article.

Alternative economics - role in economy of non-profit org's, collectives/coops?

WikiProject Environment WikiProject International development

Personal interest
Topics I want to learn about:


 * Epicureanism - I thought it was something different.
 * Blepharitis research. Relationship to dust, contact lenses, & laser eye surgery