User: Edward
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Edward Betts is a Geek and a Debian developer living in Holloway, London.
His day job is coding Web Applications in Perl.
He is a member of Generation X, and enjoys Generation X literature.
(quick, switch to the first person)
- Check out my namesakes -- ed and Bettsville, Ohio.
- Books I've read: User:Edward/books
- Contribs: User:Edward/contribs
- Todo: User:Edward/todo
- sometimes I update Logarithmic timeline of current events
- IMDB Top 250: User:Edward/top250 (out of date because it changes all the time)
- I used to have this home computer: Magnavox Odyssey²
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Bookmarks
- Wikipedia:UK Wikipedians' notice board
- Wikipedia:Welcoming committee
- Wikipedia:Standard user greeting
- User:Angela/useful stuff#Welcome
- Current science and technology events
Interests
Accidents and incidents on commercial airliners, Agile Methods, Alcohol as a fuel, American literature, Atomic Age, Augmented reality, Auto-free zone, BBC Radio 4, Bicycles in warfare, Category:Big Science, Broken arrows, Capitalism, Chip and PIN, City, Cold War, Command line interface, Cyberpunk, Dark fibre, Disasters, Dot-com, ETOPS, Economics, European Union, Ford Nucleon, Free flight (air traffic control), Free software, Generation X, Glocalization, Google, International organisation, Irrational exuberance, LaTeX, Limits to Growth, Microwave power transmission, Military-industrial complex, Moral panic, Noam Chomsky, Northern Ireland conflict, Nuclear accidents, Nuclear accident terminology, Military occupation, PearPC, Politics, Private military contractors, Profit maximization, Public transport, Python programming language, Radioisotope thermoelectric generators, Relaxed stability, Science Fiction, Self-publishing, Semantic web, Simulated reality, Skyline, Social software, Socialism, Techno-utopianism, Technological singularity, Terrorism, Transhumanism, United Nations, Urbanization, Web development, Webvan, Yield management
Articles to read
I'm going to read these articles, but I haven't got round to it yet.
Bretton Woods system (51.0k), Iraqi resistance (48.7k), Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2004 (43.8k), Blackadder (40.8k), King James Version of the Bible (38.7k), Plastic (35.7k), Conscription (35.6k), Committee on the Present Danger (32.6k), Hubbert peak (28.5k), Stonehenge (28.4k), Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (28.3k), Spacecraft propulsion (27.0k), Hezbollah (26.1k), Geography of the United Kingdom (25.7k), Obesity (25.4k), Harlem Renaissance (24.9k), Nanjing Massacre (24.4k), Palestinian exodus (23.6k), Camille Paglia (23.3k), Scots language (23.3k), Greek Civil War (23.3k), Philip K. Dick (23.2k), United Nations (23.2k), William Shakespeare (23.1k), Operating system advocacy (23.0k), Manchester (22.9k), Marcus Garvey (22.6k), Occupation of Czechoslovakia (22.0k), History of South Africa (21.6k), Global Positioning System (21.4k), Toyota Land Cruiser (19.0k), Incandescent light bulb (18.9k), British Mandate of Palestine (18.3k), Ebola (18.3k), MIPS architecture (18.0k), Public house (17.9k), Division of Korea (17.3k), Peer-to-peer (17.3k), Industrial Revolution (17.0k), Project for the New American Century (16.7k), Portable stove (16.6k), Unlawful combatant (16.4k), Cowboy Bebop (16.3k), Porter J. Goss (16.1k), Strategic bombing (15.6k), Diode (15.4k), Clement Attlee (14.9k), M*A*S*H (TV series) (14.7k), Anonymous remailer (14.3k), Game theory (14.1k), Funeral (13.9k), History of Bougainville (13.7k), ECHELON (12.9k), Organic food (12.7k), Bank (12.7k), Taxicab (12.6k), African Union (12.0k), Children's literature (10.6k), LL parser (10.6k), Golan Heights (10.4k), Book of Common Prayer (10.3k), Leo Strauss (9.9k), Mac OS (9.9k), ARM architecture (9.8k), Declaration of war by the United States (9.6k), Production Code (9.4k), Foreign relations of Libya (9.3k), Land Rover (9.1k), Landing craft (9.1k), Macintosh Finder (8.7k), Coca eradication (7.7k), Sausage (7.6k), Grammatical tense (7.5k), Soda can stove (7.5k), Aswan Dam (6.9k), Black nationalism (6.8k), Seven Pillars of Wisdom (6.6k), Esoteric programming language (6.6k), Lettre de cachet (6.4k), Rainforest (6.4k), Balfour Declaration, 1917 (6.4k), The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy (6.3k), Fourth Geneva Convention (6.3k), Cubicle desk (6.0k), Denial-of-service attack (6.0k), Elasticity (economics) (4.0k), Keiretsu (2.9k), Moral rights (2.9k), Pan-African Parliament (1.7k), Occupation of Palestine (0.6k)
Pirate (disambiguation), Category:Operations involving special forces, Category:Wire services,
add: Opposition to Castro, British Agricultural Revolution, Scientific revolution, The Levellers, Nassau William Senior, John Lilburne, Long Depression, New Imperialism, Scientific Management, Warrington, Literacy, American system of manufacturing, Fuel cell, Low intensity conflict, Babylonian captivity, Crew Exploration Vehicle, MIM-104 Patriot, Arrow missile, CQB, Crock-pot, Vacuum flask cooking, Return on investment, Allied Control Council, Unconditional surrender, Copyleft, Trial by combat
Books I should read
- Strategy of technology -- free online copy
- Engines of Creation -- free online copy
- Ravage (1943) by René Barjavel -- Jef recommends this author
Favourite authors
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Tom Wolfe
- William Gibson
- Vernor Vinge
- Po Bronson
- Lawrence Lessig
- Noam Chomsky
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Steven Levy
- Simon Reeve
- Douglas Coupland
- Neal Stephenson
- Michael Lewis
- Orson Scott Card
- George Orwell
- Larry Niven
- Clifford Stoll
- Ray Kurzweil
Todo
- learn Lojban
- learn SAMPA
- write some articles for Simple English Wikipedia