User: Edward/todo
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Articles to extend and improve
Should write more on the article about Bloom filters based on the original paper and this article on perl.com.
Should extend Wayne's World, University of Colorado at Boulder, and University of East Anglia.
figures in parens are from http://googleflight.com/
- CoCom
- Farewell Dossier
- fix errors in Finder#Finder 10.3 and link to articles on Ars Technica
- Military robots - Packbot robots used in Afghanistan. -- [1] + Dragon Runner
- European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages - list the languages - Scots language
- Louise Woodward - TV trial
- John Koza - need to add stuff about the lottery, and biggest cluster of machines for one person - stub
- Timeline of the future in forecasts -- add Ray Kurzweil
- Comma-separated values - criticisms from The Practice of Programming, Microsoft standard, annoying to parse
- RealMedia
- Memory management unit
- Pie chart
- New Journalism - stub
- Liar's Poker -- book by Michael Lewis - stub
- 1991 The low-fat McLean is introduced in the USA using a new additive from seaweed to bind the beef.
- Grey goo - add bloom, Bill Joy, Prince Charles, book by JCG
- Ignition - stub
- Perl - should mention 'use strict;'
- Special case - stub
- Swingometer - link to Peter Snow - stub
- League table - sport and government statistics
- Aircraft safety card - stub
- Slopping out - stub
- Club Kids
- DVLA - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
- Anneka Rice - stub
- Challenge Anneka - mention the Romanian orphanage
- Doogie Howser, M.D. - family show? made by the same people as Beverly Hills 90210? - stub
- Noel Edmonds
- Eurail Pass and Inter Rail
- Transportation in Europe - stub
- Keyfob / Key fob - add electronic key fob - stub
- 4G
- Happy hour
- Information leakage
- Car chase should add more about police car chase shows
- Pot Noodle - adverts - stub
- Alexandra Park - still need to add more about the parks - stub
- Luggage (redircts: Baggage, Hand luggage, Hold luggage) - see also Suitcase, Bag, Backpack
- Foreign aid - stub
- Woodlands, Glasgow - mention the cartoon character statue, Lobby Dosser
- Third world debt - stub
- Case modification - Case mod linked from Mod - http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2004/0500/casemods.html - http://snower13.no-ip.com/casemod/home.htm - stub
- Shettleston[2]
- Lotus Word Pro - stub
- Faliraki, Greece - stub
- Thomas Frank -- author / journalist, linked to from Southern strategy and The Baffler - stub
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood -- Cyberpunk author, linked from BSFA award - stub
- Katie Hafner -- author / journalist, linked from John Markoff and Freedom Downtime - stub
- Franklin Mint -- write about Diana, Princess of Wales and court settlement - stub
- Adam Curtis - documentary maker (The Century of the Self, Power of Nightmares) - stub
- Child safety lock - on car doors so the kids can't open them
- Flatshare / Flat share
- Toolkit - turn into a disambiguation page?
- Viewfinder - stub
- Beta blocker - http://glenngould.org/f_minor/msg08851.html
- Rubber duck - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/31/eveningnews/main566138.shtml
- Michael Apted - add mention of 7 Up (documentary)
- 7 Up (documentary) - add criticisms
- Nick Broomfield
Diagrams
Missing articles
People
- George Gilder -- Prominent oracles of techno-utopianism included the archconservative libertarian George Gilder -- linked to from Wired Magazine, Futurology, Techno-utopianism, Digerati
- Dr. Gernot Zippe / Dr Gernot Zippe - Zippe-Type centrifuge / Zippe-Type
- Abdullah Chatli - leader of the Grey Wolves
These are from Power of Nightmares - http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html
- Jonathan Eyal - director of the British military thinktank the Royal United Services Institute
- Bill Durodie, director of the International Centre for Security Analysis at King's College London
- Linda Colley - historian
- David Caute - cold war historian
- Roxanne Euben - Political scientist
- Steven Holmes
Places
Computing
- The ports tree system used by FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and the like.
- Junction table -- database theory
- Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal -- programming essay, linked from Datamation
- types of Computer cases (Full tower, midi-tower, mini-tower, shuttle PC). linked from Pizza box form factor
Food and drink
- food politics
- Food technology linked from Universidad de Chile
- Chip pan
- Self heating drinks can - need to think of a better name, uses Calcium oxide
- Framboise
- Bombay mix - spicy Indian snack food
Locks
- Remote locking
- Central locking linked from Ford Escort
Other
- Romanian orphanages - http://www.mtee.org.uk/statement.html
- Beriev A-50 Mainstay -- Soviet aircraft
- Mail train linked from Royal Mail, Ronnie Biggs and Rail transport in Great Britain
- prison cell linked from Escapology and Slopping out
- Blobject
- One Day in September -- book and film -- linked to from Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Simon Reeve, Munich Massacre
- Badington Airport -- new airport in Coventry, England
- On 19 November 1984 a series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignited a major fire and killed about 500 people.
- 1979 - A blowout at the Ixtoc oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons.
- the discovery of Alaskan North Shore oil contributed to the 1986 fall in petroleum prices, cutting the revenues not only of OPEC but also of the USSR
- Brixton Riots -- [4] - BBC News article
- Euro-Mediterranean Partnership -- http://a9.com/Euro-Mediterranean%20Partnership
- Adam Smith's Four canons of taxation
- Secondary Modern School / Secondary modern school / Secondary modern
- Shrink wrap linked from Gramophone record and End-user license agreement
- Makro - wholesale retailer linked from List of supermarkets
- Letterhead - Headed notepaper - Address label
- Limescale linked from Hard water
- Cable management linked from Cable spaghetti
- Crinkley Bottom
- Mr. Blobby linked from List of Amiga games and Noel Edmonds
- Health and safety
- Fire blanket
- Portable media player - need to think of a better name, like MP3 players but with video
- Operation Trident
- Military aid - USA gives military aid to Turkey and Israel
- Foundation on Economic Trends - Jeremy Rifkin
- Camel Trophy link from Land Rover
- The Money Programme lots link here
- Rubber glove
- Linux Weekly News links from Stock market index and Maya Tamiya
- Trangia or Trangia stove - link to and from Portable stove and Soda can stove
- Slow cooker link from Crock-pot
- Hay box
- Carpet bagging / Carpet bagger
