User:Pengo/misc

Pengo, an Australian software developer. 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.

Biology public domain resources

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

Redlist 2006

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

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?

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

More Pengo Pages

 * missing articles
 * photos
 * fringe science

Photos Awaiting Articles

 * See pengo's photo page
 * See also Images with missing articles or 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)

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

For My Own Reference (Wiki stuff)

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

Primes

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

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 (sea otters)
 * Complex society
 * Culture (orcas)
 * spite
 * ability to deceive (ravens)
 * morality (rhesus monkeys refusing food when another can't eat)
 * emotions (magpie grief)
 * personality
 * ego
 * bum wiping
 * cruelty (for fun)

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, ...