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[edit] Articles I started
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Ten Tors - dartmoor hiking challenge
- Datamation - computer magazine - stub
- Simon Reeve - author - stub
- Cube farm - stub
- Backwell - village where my parents live
- Megabus
- Slopping out - stub
- Robert X. Cringely - technology author and broadcaster
- South Central Los Angeles
- Greg Critser - author and journalist - stub
- Breadmaker - Home appliance
- Pret a Manger - UK sandwich retailer
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood - cyberpunk author and journalist
- Katie Hafner - author / journalist - stub
- Dragon Runner - military robot - stub
- Gernot Zippe - centrifuge engineer
- Zippe-type centrifuge - nuclear fuel centrifuge
- The Money Programme - finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2
- Package holiday - transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a tour operator.
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[edit] Articles which I've improved
- Swingometer - added mention of Peter Snow
- Wired magazine - added Katie Hafner to list of contributers
- updated Logarithmic timeline of current events
- easyJet - initially telephone booking, moved to internet booking
- British Airways - Union Flag, tail fin repaint, Margaret Thatcher
- Wheel clamp - mention the guy with the angle grinder
- crosslinked The Hunt For Red October and Crazy Ivan
- Pakora - In the United Kingdom, Pakora is sold in fast food takeaways as an alternative to chips or a kebab during the evening and early morning.
- Atacama - The European Southern Observatory operates two major observatories in the Atacama desert
- Doogie Howser, M.D. - The show was set in Los Angeles. It was created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley; Trademarks of the show include Doogie's best friend Vinnie climbing in through his window, and Doogie writing his diary on his computer at the end of each episode.
- Geek canon - Film - add Office Space
- Near Field Communication - link to Wired article
- Maluku link RMS to Republik Maluku Selatan
- Toyota Prius - Bluetooth
- Goldfish - In the United Kingdom they have traditionally been given as prizes at Fairgrounds, but new laws mean it is now illegal to give live animals as a prize.
- Yellow - In Canada and the United States School buses are almost uniformly painted a bright yellow color (often referred to as "school bus yellow")
- Richard Ottaway - He attended Backwell School, and studied Law at Bristol University, graduating in 1974.
- New Journalism - added Further reading: New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, ISBN 0060471832
- Dijon - birthplace of Charles Le Temeraire duke of Burgundy
- Magna Carta - Ross Perot bought a copy in 1984
- Biggin Hill - It is the home of London Biggin Hill Airport.
- Sky News - featured in The Day After Tomorrow
- Aircraft carrier - Aircraft carriers in fiction
- Answering machine - Answer machines in fiction
- Viewdata - added some text about how viewdata is used in the Travel industry in the United Kingdom
- Foot and mouth disease - Many sporting events and leisure activities like Ten Tors were cancelled.
- Chewing gum - Many modern chewing gums use petroleum based plastic instead of chicle.
- Montrose, Angus - The population in the 2001 census was 10,845.
- Blue screen of death - added a photo of a bluescreened payphone and some text about embedded systems bluescreening
- Aloha Flight 243 - The made for TV movie Miracle Landing is based on this incident.
- Cable spaghetti - some text + photo.
- Camera phone - as of 2004 typically 0.3 megapixels
- Orange Prize for Fiction - added winners for 2003 and 2004
- Louise Woodward - wrote about the trial being shown on TV in the United Kingdom.
- John Koza - added some more stuff about the lottery, biggest computer cluster owned by an individual and an external link
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Stone that marks the entrance to the Backwell
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A pack of pork from Tesco is labelled with a sticker that says "No Carbs per serving"
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[edit] Other people's photos I've uploaded with permission
