User:Edward/contribs

These lists are very incomplete.

Articles I started

1. Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
2. Ten Tors - dartmoor hiking challenge
3. Datamation - computer magazine - stub
4. Simon Reeve - author - stub
5. Cube farm - stub
6. Backwell - village where my parents live
7. Megabus
8. Slopping out - stub
9. Robert X. Cringely - technology author and broadcaster
10. South Central Los Angeles
11. Greg Critser - author and journalist - stub
12. Breadmaker - Home appliance
13. Pret a Manger - UK sandwich retailer
14. Jon Courtenay Grimwood - cyberpunk author and journalist
15. Katie Hafner - author / journalist - stub
16. Dragon Runner - military robot - stub
17. Gernot Zippe - centrifuge engineer
18. Zippe-type centrifuge - nuclear fuel centrifuge
19. The Money Programme - finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2
20. Package holiday - transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a tour operator.

Categories

1. Category:Vietnam War
2. Category:Vietnam War operations and battles
3. Category:Vietnam War equipment
4. Category:Vietnam War aircraft
5. Category:Vietnam War films
6. Category:Vietnam War people
7. Category:Cold War
8. Category:Cold War people
9. Category:Cold War films
10. Category:Science fiction films
11. Category:Free software
12. Category:KDE
13. Category:GNOME
14. Category:Widget toolkits
15. Category:Zope
16. Category:Python programming language
17. Category:Publicly-funded broadcasters
18. Category:BBC radio
19. Category:Radio
20. Category:Dune
21. Category:Science fiction novels
22. Category:Back to the Future (franchise)
23. Category:Techno-thrillers
24. Category:BBC
25. Category:United States armed forces
26. Category:Quake
27. Category:Text editors
28. Category:BBC television channels
29. Category:Spain
30. Category:Semitic languages
31. Category:Afro-Asiatic languages
32. Category:Glasgow
33. Category:Metro
34. Category:Public transport
35. Category:Celtic languages
36. Category:Singapore political parties
37. Category:Singapore
38. Category:Database management systems
39. Category:Lunar deities
40. Category:Shopping malls
41. Category:Retailers
42. Category:Commerce
43. Category:Supermarkets
44. Category:British supermarkets
45. Category:Post-apocalyptic science fiction films
46. Category:Online music stores
47. Category:Electronic commerce
48. Category:Disaster movies
49. Category:Online retailers
50. Category:Television networks
51. Category:24-hour television news channels
52. Category:Encyclopedias
53. Category:Computer magazines
54. Category:Boxers
55. Category:Fortune 500 companies
56. Category:Breakfast
57. Category:Diets
58. Category:Alcoholic beverages
59. Category:Deserts
60. Category:Pointing devices
61. Category:Input devices
62. Category:Laptops
63. Category:Declarative programming languages
64. Category:Nuclear strategies
65. Category:Home computers
66. Category:Personal computers
67. Category:Fictional buildings
68. Category:Free trade
69. Category:North Somerset
70. Category:West Sussex
71. Category:Cornwall
72. Category:East Sussex
73. Category:Military of Russia
74. Category:Online auction websites
75. Category:The Sprawl trilogy
76. Category:Cyberpunk
77. Category:Russian writers
78. Category:Edinburgh
79. Category:Romantic comedy films
80. Category:Eco-fiction
81. Category:Fast food
82. Category:Fast-food restaurants
83. Category:Restaurants
84. Category:Snack foods
85. Category:Universities and colleges in Colorado
86. Category:Oil spills
87. Category:Ales
88. Category:English seaside resorts, populated with help from t0m and Pepsiman
89. Category:Welsh seaside resorts
90. Category:Endorheic lakes
91. Category:Software metrics
92. Category:Combat sports
93. Category:Boardsports
94. Category:Fictional coffeeshops
95. Category:Centrifuges
96. Category:Edinburgh
97. Category:Italian writers
98. Category:Surfing
99. Category:Skateboarders
100. Category:Skateboarding
101. Category:Meals
102. Category:Korean cuisine
103. Category:Islands of the Philippines
104. Category:Vaccines
105. Category:Legacy systems
106. Category:Israeli settlements
107. Category:Private military contractors
108. Category:Drinking culture
109. Category:Massacres
110. Category:Spreads
111. Category:Unilever brands
112. Category:Police operations in the United Kingdom
113. Category:Protests
114. Category:Economic bubbles
115. Category:Living arrangements
116. Category:Energy crises
117. Category:Cakes
118. Category:Search engine optimization
119. Category:Weather satellites
120. Category:Earth observation satellites
121. Category:Package management systems
122. Category:English seaside resorts
123. Category:Dot-com
124. Category:Neologisms
125. Category:Political neologisms
126. Category:Popular culture neologisms
127. Category:High streets in the United Kingdom
128. Category:Gas explosions
129. Category:Slave trade
130. Category:Control characters
131. Category:America Online
132. Category:Online service providers
133. Category:Network topologies
134. Category:Railway tunnels
135. Category:Greenpeace
136. Category:Transhumanist books
137. Category:Postcyberpunk
138. Category:Military science fiction
139. Category:Geographic portmanteaus
140. Category:Computing portmanteaus
141. Category:Scientific portmanteaus
142. Category:Monday
143. Category:Tuesday
144. Category:Wednesday
145. Category:Wednesday
146. Category:Thursday
147. Category:Friday
148. Category:Sunday
149. Category:Saturday
150. Category:Stock market crashes
151. Category:Gardening tools
152. Category:Make Poverty History
153. Category:Unmanned resupply spacecraft
154. Category:Nomads
155. Category:G8
156. Category:Chairs
157. Category:Stagecoach Group
158. Category:No frills
159. Category:Dot-com magazines
160. Category:Dot-com people
161. Category:Pub chains
162. Category:Piazzas
163. Category:Accidental deaths
164. Category:Road accident victims
165. Category:British executions
166. Category:Industrial disasters
167. Category:Firearm deaths
168. Category:People shot dead by police
169. Category:Social stigma
170. Category:Unarmed people shot dead by police
171. Category:Alcohol law
172. Category:Drink driving
173. Category:Drunk drivers
174. Category:Christian companies
175. Category:Skiing deaths
176. Category:Infant feeding
177. Category:Boycotts
178. Category:Student strikes
179. Category:Terrorism in London

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

Diagrams

UK Income Tax and National insurance as a % of Salary (2004-2005)	UK Income Tax and National insurance (2004-2005)
FTSE 100 Index (19 July 1987 through 19 January 1988)	Dow Jones (19 July 1987 through 19 January 1988).
LNUX stock chart	Lastminute.com share price over a year.
File:Lightcone.png Light cone

Photos I took

Blue Screen of Death	Cable spaghetti	British Library gate
Glasgow Subway	Woodlands, Glasgow	The Media Centre at Lord's Cricket Ground
File:Applestorelondon.jpg Apple retail store openning in London	Abbey Head office	Stone that marks the entrance to the Backwell
Village of the year sign	York Road tube station	Wellcome Trust
UNISON head office	Photo of phone box with smashed tempered glass in Holloway	Great Portland Street tube station
Rolltop desk	Breadmaker
File:Online poker adverts on London Underground.jpg Online poker adverts on the wall of a Central Line platform at Tottenham Court Road tube station	Emirates Stadium under construction	File:Emirates Stadium artists impression.jpg Artists impression of the unfinished Emirates Stadium

Other people's photos I've uploaded with permission

Glasgow Central	Sony PSP and Nintendo DS	File:Copenhagen underground station.jpg Copenhagen Metro taken in February 2005
Dragon Runner	People walking in New York City during the 2003 North America blackout