Hey, Adam, good luck with your project! and let me know your impressions of SurveyMonkey if you have a moment--I've used it myself on a couple of occasions, and have found it helpful for qualitative data ( if / if one gets the question right -- as always) as well as for multiple-choice answers.
A couple of references that may be of interest:
I saw in the papers that General Giap died a week ago. The obit published here (in Canada) was from the New York Times, and was surprisingly generous about his remarkable successes against the armed forces of two large, wealthy and powerful countries. Interestingly, but not surprisingly (he said, with just an edge of exasperation in his voice), the writer did not mention that the general and his troops owed some of their colossal achievements to their creative use of thousands upon thousands of bicycles to carry supplies across huge distances in dire conditions. Simple technology spiking advanced technology.
In a barely related vein, I hold in my mind some wonderful images from years ago, images of guys in rural Southern-Central Africa carrying steel bedframes and bedsprings crosswise on the rear racks of ancient Rudges and Raleighs, secured by strips of old inner tubes. (This, mind, while their womenfolk had to carry the household's water on their heads. Potentially liberating technology compromised by entrenched gender roles...)
