CRT: Rescue Hunter last checked Wednesday, May 21, 2003
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Literature
- Becket - Book and Movie - AwkwardSaw
- City of Glass by Douglas Coupland
- Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland
- DC Comics, literature? yes! - jb
- Necroscope {?} - Palpz
- The Pillow Book - Teiresias
- Songs of Innocence and Experience - sludgeeel
- The Book of Who Cares - gleeme
- From the Earth to the Moon - AlphaFoX
- The Stone Diaries - anthropod
- What becomes of the broken hearted? - Demeter
- Fantastic Voyage (both book and film) - Saige
- Arms and the man - Gorgonzola (both the poem and the play)
- America (the book by Jean Baudrillard) - Starke
- Pebble in the Sky
- Jeremiah Cornelius (fb gz). Omnibus volumes (such as The Cornelius Chronicles) firmlinked to Jeremiah Cornelius and locked.
- The Lorax
Writers/Authors/Poets (playwrights included)
- Elizabeth Wurtzel - Devon Hart
- Terri Windling claimed by Lucy-S
- Thomas Canty claimed by Lucy-S
- Robert Service - fab
- Gustave Flaubert - anthropod
- Janice Raymond - Saige
- Larry Flynt - Devon Hart
- Boris Vian - alex
- Nikos Kazantzakis - fuzzy and blue
- Robert Heinlein needs consolidation and a good bio
- Michael Crichton needs biography
Movies, Radio and TV
- Here's Lucy - wp
- A Kind of Loving
- Miss Saigon the stage musical - BlueDragon
- La Petite Mort - wertperch
- Dark Skies - call
- Singles (the comedy) - (darsi)
- BMX Bandits - call
- An Officer and a Gentleman - GN
- King of Comedy (the movie) - Catchpole
- Blackenstein -ap
- Celebrity (Woody Allen film) -ap
- thirtysomething - WolfDaddy
- Friends needs a good historical and background treatment
- Braindead horror flick - Teiresias
- James Bond filmography and books - (darsi)
- Major League - atesh
- Lucas Film - Devon_Hart
- From the Earth to the Moon - ap
- Antiques Roadshow - RainDropUp
- Focus the film and the book! - neil
- High Fidelity (collation/cleaning up needed)
- Frugal Gourmet - icicle
- Dick Tracy - mr100percent wp will cover the radio series
- Eldorado - failed UK soap opera - Teiresias
- Desert Island Discs - Teiresias
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - Teiresias
- Centre Force (London based pirate radio) - alex
- Strange Brew found anthropod
- Cinematograph - history and early technology - alex
- Fantastic Voyage (both book and film) - Saige
- Area 88 - TBBK
- My Cousin Vinnie - Palpz claimed by Posmella 20/07/02
- Emmys - Palpz
- Oliver! - the musical
- Benny and Joon found by fuzzy and blue
- Almost Famous - gleeme
- Heaven Can Wait - caknuck
- Bob Monkhouse - jmn32, claimed by shimmer 07.10.02
- James and the Giant Peach, thefilm - fuzzy and blueClaimed by Posmella, 12/10/02
- The Today Programme, on BBC Radio 4 - ascorbic
- Destination Moon - etoile
- Giant - maus
- Basket Case, the movie fb Gz
- Dial 'M' For Murder
- The Masked Avenger - radio show
- CBS
- Miami Vice
Actors, directors, personnel
- Actors from CrackerJack that need help Michael Aspel, Eamonn Andrews, and Ronnie Corbett - thanks immensely to Gritchka - jay
- Dennis Weaver
- Barry Nelson - pp
- Anthony Quinn - (darsi)
- Martin Sheen - Palpz
- Steven Spielberg - Palpz
- John Rhys-Davies - jm
- Diane Keaton - wp
- Cary Grant - fb exceptinsects
- Maria de Medeiros - ascorbic
- Scott Thompson - wertperch
- Claudia Christian - WolfDaddy
- Owen Wilson - blandoon
- Jennifer Connelly -(darsi)
- Jess Harnell -ap
- Will Vinton (animator) -ap
- Ralph Fiennes actor - (darsi)
- Alan Arkin actor - (darsi)
- John Woo claimed by elem 125 as of 1 Jan 2003
- Blake Edwards -maus
- Ray Milland -maus
- Joan Cusack - CTW
- Martin Scorsese - Devon_Hart
- Louis Jordan (the actor) - anthropod
- David Frost -ap
- Judith Anderson brit. actor - WolfDaddy
- Timothy Leary - irexe
- Terry Nation - CtW
- Mark Thomas stand-up comic
- David Bellamy TV botanist
- Ridley Scott - Teiresias
- Ashley Judd, actress - panamaus
- Luc Besson, director - CTW
- David Cross - comedian, - Teiresias
- Michael Parkinson - great grandaddy of TV talkshow hosts - Teiresias
- Sue Lawley - Teiresias
- Clare Grogan - Teiresias
- The Wachowski Brothers - irexe
- Dexter Fletcher - wertperch
- Casper Van Dien - Devon Hart
- Drew Carey - atesh
- Jules Asner - simonc
- Ian Holm - maus
- Ava Gardner - maus
- Tony Blackburn - shimmer
- Derek Jarman, queer filmmaker - Oolong
- Peter Greenaway, director -fuzzy and blue
- Wallace Shawn - etoile
- Sarah Bernhardt - caknuck
- Julie Christie - caknuck
- Sabrina Lloyd - caknuck
- Felicity Huffman - caknuck
- Josh Charles - caknuck
- Robert Guillaume - caknuck
- Joshua Malina - caknuck
- Aaron Sorkin - caknuck
- Jamie Lee Curtis - jmn32
- Gay Byrne - gleeme
- Cary Grant
- Arsenio Hall, former talk show host (found by fuzzy and blue, unclaimed)
- James Cagney
- Dick Clark
- Carl Foreman
- Mike Myers
- Rick Moranis
- Hugh Jackman
Music and musicians
- Heather Alexander - Musician - jay
- Natalie Imbruglia - Thanks to Teiresias - jay
- Loretta Lynn - thanks to jaubertmoniker
- Sascha Konietzko - novasoy
- jungle (the genre) has a host of writeups and is looking for a nice, comprehensive one. -ap
- Klaus Nomi has a very nice E1 job but could do with a bit more -ap
- Chicago - GFG (as in the band)
- Bryan Adams - (darsi)
- Holly Near - etoile
- Happy Rhodes - such a voice and just one paragraph of E1 for it, tsk -ap
- bentley rhythm ace - suggested by Great Neb
- snap (UK band, needs bio and discography) - suggested by Great Neb
- Zia McCabe, of Dandy Warhols fame - wertperch
- photek - Great Neb
- Don Was - GFG
- Poly Styrene - novasoy
- Lawrence Welk - DH
- Quarrymen
- Roger Waters - suggested by Devon_Hart
- Morris Day - jm
- Kronos Quartet - anthropod
- Dokken - jm
- Adam Beyer - enth
- Nazareth - WolfDaddy
- Jack DeJohnette - CtW
- David Grisman and The David Grisman Quintet
- Eva Cassidy- Great Neb
- Killing Joke - irexe
- Shaun Ryder - (darsi)
- Herbert Grönemeyer - (darsi)
- Herbie Hancock - pp -claimed by GFG
- Bow Wow Wow - simonc
- Burt Bacharach - ssd
- Elvis Costello - irexe
- Bobby Gillespie - (darsi)
- Huey Lewis and the News -ap
- Les Paul Studio -ap
- Ice T - Footprints
- Danzig could use more info... (darsi)
- Gary Burton the vibraphonist - Footprints
- Lee Greenwood - GangstaFeelsGood
- Charlie Hunter guitarist - GangstaFeelsGood
- Ricky Martin - (darsi)
- Suicide the band
- Mary J. Blige - Discography and other artist information
- Bill Leeb - irexe
- Papas Fritas
- afrika Bambaataa
- Grandmaster Flash
- Quincy Jones - maus
- a cappella - ssd
- Chuck D - Great Neb again
- Lemonheads and Evan Dando, it's frontman - Teiresias
- The Steve Miller Band history, formation/s, discography... - NL
- Art Garfunkel -pp
- Steve Vai - Footprints
- Chick Corea - Footprints
- Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder album - gleeme
- Robbie Williams - Great Neb
- Echo and The Bunnymen - Teiresias
- Jimmy Swaggart - Devon Hart
- Cheap Trick - Palpz
- Wendy Carlos - elflad
- Legendary Pink Dots - alex, claimed by slobertje 25/05/02
- Acid Bath - irexe
- Brian Ritchie ex-Violent Femmes - irexe
- Garbage the band - Carthag
- Dust Brothers needs discography and background - jm
- Al Jolson - wp Leonard Cohen - NL
- Steven Tyler - shimmer
- Carpenters - irexe, claimed by simonc 21/06/02
- Public Enemy - irexe
- Flea - Chilli Peppers bassist, - Footprints
- Less than Jake (consolidate/expand) - SharQ
- Martika - Saige
- Tiffany - Saige
- Jimmy Nail - Mortice
- NWA - irexe
- The Bee Gees - maus
- Diana Ross - pp
- Nick Drake - maus
- Marx Brothers - wp
- T-Rex - thyme
- The Tragically Hip - anthropod
- piccolo, the instrument - fuzzy and blue claimed 01/10/02 by jpfed
- David Holmes - jmn32
- William Orbit - jmn32
- baritone
- harp
- America (the band) - Starke
- Diana Krall - maus
- Usher (the singer) - caknuck Claimed 11/14/02 by Great Neb
- Love and Rockets - atesh
- Tito Puente
Sport
- shotokan is a nodeshell
- kendo needs consolidation and details - atesh
- Merv Albert nodeshell - jm
- English Premier League
- Phil Tufnell "He's fat and he's lazy" and needs a bio - Teiresias
- Boxing - TBBK/PP
- Jacques Rogge -IOC president - Teiresias
- Juan Antonio Samaranch former IOC president - Teiresias
- Kung Fu - TheChronicler
- Kenneth Wolstenholme -ap
- Denver Broncos -pp
- Fatima Whitbread - Teiresias
- Graham Taylor ex-England football manager - Teiresias
- Iain Dowie - Teiresias
- Lawn bowls - simonc
- Crown Green Bowls - BlueDragon
- Short Mat Bowls - BlueDragon
- Olympic Games - Footprints
- Maurice Richard, NHL legend - caknuck
Games and Toys
- Black Panther (video game) - gleeme - claimed on 2002.05.03 by TheBooBooKitty
- curses - WWWW (whoever takes this, see if something can be done about the author, Graham Nelson - wp)
- Heart of Darkness - Posmella
- three card monte
Fine Arts
- play as in theater/theatre and drama, perhaps some societal and cultural as well as artistic history - Ikura
Other Arts & Entertainment
- Dear Abby {? with TBBK 19 March 2002} has song lyrics but nothing on, you know, Dear Abby. -junkpile
- Steve Wright - UK deejay person - wertperch
- Entertainment Weekly - WolfDaddy
- Wimpy - the cartoon character - Teiresias
- American idioms (more of a topic than an actual rescue) - ssd
- Reduced Shakespeare Company - Mortice
- Super Dave Osborne - AwkwardSaw
- panorama as in painting and photography - Professor Pi
- lambada -ap
- minaret history & origins, spiritual significance, famous and infamous examples - simonc claimed by sludgeeel June 1 2002
- Dave Sim cartoonist, - SharQ (request forwarded to e2comix)
- Oberammergau, the passion play - Kidas
- Bossa Nova
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Life Sciences, including Biology and Medicine
- craniotomy - suggested by Devon_Hart
- carer is a nodeshell - wertperch
- Gulf War Syndrome {? 19th March 2002} TheChronicler
- Novo Nordisk - ariels
- orthodontist
- dental hygienist
- orgasm claimed by BlueDragon April 4 2002
- Pediatrician/Paediatrician - Teiresias
- Electrolyte - Kidas
- human growth hormone - rdude
- stem - rdude
- liverwort - rdude
- Madness as a generic kinda thing, - anthropod
- Clive Sinclair, bio and details of his ideas - Ponder
- Sociology - gleeme
- Anthropophobia
Human anatomy and bits of the body
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(taken care of for now)
Critters
- rabbit
- cockatoo - jaubertmoniker
- monkey needs consolidation and expansion - GN
- Cassowary
- Duck
- Oriole
- California Quail
- Scarlet Macaw
- Turkey
- gibbon
- marsupial - sloebertje
- bark beetle
- Mouse - our non-electronical rodent could need some more flesh
Computer Hardware
- AWE32 jay
- Torch - the old Z80-based computer (discovered by ariels)
- Aptiva
- Dandelion - made by Xerox
- MPLA - Multi-Point Link Aggregation
Computer Software
- Windows CE 2.0 - There is a Windows CE node, but this one may be good for Windows CE 2.0 specific stuff.
- Downloader for X - Brief, could use some technical explainations, and the current status of the project - jay
- Microsoft RAS - needs more stuffing before we bake it - jay
- Opera - this node needs to be defrag'ed. -ap
- Microsoft Outlook - jaubertmoniker (claimed by JayBonci)
- Microsoft - less argument, more fact, - rdude
- C++ stuff: export -submitted by ssd.
- Pink -the alleged post-MacOS OS - Teiresias
- Shredder, chess package - Teiresias
- Meridian 59 (game) -ap
- Microsoft Word - some history, some facts. Please. (TBBK)
- PowerAnimator
- atom in the Lisp, QuickTime sense needs attention
- Microsoft Access - some history, technical information
- Filemaker - some history, technical information
- kernel panic needs consolidation and some more detail! - by Devon_Hart
- ipfw - wertperch
- ReiserFS - ascorbic claimed by nyte 23/05/02
- Cubase - irexe
- The Arachne web browser - TBBK
- Microsoft Excel - pp
- Mozilla could use a tidy-up and a good history - Mortice
- HFS - SharQ
- loom - SharQ
Computing - Games and toys
The videogames usergroup keeps an extensive list of games in need of rescuing at the homenode of their shared account, Insert Coin.
Computing - other
- Go2Net - Seattle based company, now owned by infospace, could use more information.
- uBid - The online company.
- Western Digital - Hard drive manufacturer - jay
- Yahoo Pager - Slim - jay
- lexical binding -gz
- Eterm
- XEvil
- Real Audio - needs technical background
- WebCrawler the search engine - wertperch
- Branch Prediction - call
- ipfw - ascorbic
- ProcessTree Network - rdude
- MUCK - Devon_Hart
- whetstone benchmark - call
- copyleft - an irexe contribution
- iframe - ssd
- Alan Cox, Linux coder/hacker
- MMA (the MIDI Manufacturers Association)
- gateway - Saige
- Prodigy - the ISP
- Jamie Zawinski, Mozilla hacker. Bio, anyone?
- whacking - wireless hacking (?) anyone - Great Neb
- ENUM telephone-to-IP proposal - simonc
- e164.arpa the domain to be used with ENUM - ascorbic
- posix - ssd
- Scott McNealy founder of Sun, - irexe
- CORBA - Saige
- Cowbotneal (a worthwhile general FAQ is needed, CowbotNeal: Commands Primer notwithstanding) - gleeme
- message board
- webzine
- SlashNET
Mathematics
- Stefan Banach - compliments of ariels
- abstract algebra - ariels, claimed by fuzzy and blue on 2001.11.28 (jb notes: There is a good writeup there, but a more in-depth treatment could be done).
- algebraic topology - ariels
- Martin Gardner - Saige
- applied mathematics - Codepie
Physics
- minimal surface - ariels
- shell and subshell - suggestions by rdude
- osmosis - pp
- Hermann von Helmholtz - Teiresias
- combustion - WolfDaddy
- Hyperspace, book by Michio Kaku - enth
Other Science & Technology
- telephone - pp: history, operation, etc.
- Cartographer
- cosmology - Devon_Hart
- Turbo - thanks to TheBooBooKitty via GangstaFeelsGood
- Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction - wertperch
- television needs a history of the technology - thanks to heyoka
- life (a scientific view of cellular automata), suggested by Cletus the Foetus
- washing powder - ariels
- detergent - ariels
- insecticide - blandoon
- synchromesh has a cut and paste job that needs to be replaced - wp
- windmill -the modern kind still needs noding
- scrap metal -ap
- Rioddel Car -ap
- fly-by -ap
- white hole - Devon_Hart
- Stereo - Do a websearch for "Alan Blumlein" -pp
- CHAP
- Honda Insight hybrid vehicle - enth
- Sputnik - Palpz
- D1 D2 and Digital8 - claimed by SharQ 3rd April 2002
- lubricant - jm
- fat - areih
- methane - posmella
- petrol - posmella
- matter compiler - ssd
- Volcanology - fuzzy and blue
- Rare Earth - simonc
- silver
NATIONS
Economics and Trade
- Balanced budget - Important topic in American politics with nothing yet.
- Certified Public Accountant
- Whip Inflation Now - Ford-era US fiscal policy - WolfDaddy
- World Bank - dg
- World Trade Organization - dg
Any number of British banks, as ascorbic has found out- IPO - wertperch
- guns and butter - WolfDaddy
- welfare - Devon_Hart
Geography, Travel and Locations
- Medfield, Massachusetts - Obscure, but needed
- Black Forest
- Iberia - (darsi)
- Armagh - nodeshell! -gz
- Latvia - wertperch
- Death Valley - suggested by Atesh
- Rajasthan - RubenAzarja
- Hollywood - Palpz
- Damascus - C-Dawg
- Chicago needs some sorting out - Mortice
- Brixton in London - Great Neb
- Dortmund - Mortice
- Lake Champlain - desperately needs help - Gz
- Zandvoort -ap
- Port Saint Lucie, Florida -ap
- Key Largo -ap
- erg -ap
- Marseilles has nothing but a webster1913 entry - narzos
- Bengal - anthropod
- Newcastle upon Tyne - wp
- Vail, the ski resort in Colorado - Saige
- Sicily - Saige
- Eastern Parkway fb Gz. The one in Brooklyn, New York.
- Fairfax, Virginia, suburb of Washington DC - etoile
- Nottinghamshire - shimmer
- Asia Minor
- Halifax - Saige
- Nova Scotia - Saige
- Ontario - Palpz
- New Territories - Palpz
- Yukon - Palpz
- Tower Bridge - wp
- Hampshire - Teiresias
- Wimbledon Common - Frankie
- Hyde Park, London - Frankie
- Styal, suburb of Manchester - shimmer
- Cheetam, suburb of Manchester
- Whalley's Range, suburb of Manchester
- Montreal
- Killeshandra - Ikura
- South Pole
- Las Vegas, Nevada - Palpz
- Montauk, New York on Long Island - simonc
- Greece
- Kazbek
- Iran
- Yemen
- Saudi Arabia
- Asia - etoile
History
- Peter Wright - best known as the author of Spycatcher.
- Geheimschreiber
- (European) Enlightenment
- feudal - wertperch
- Stonehenge needs some tidying up - DH -claimed by sloebertje
- Minoan - Kidas, claimed by alex
- Long Meg stone circle - wertperch
- Leveller - CtW
- Shiro Ishii - Teiresias
- Maya
- Velite claimed by SharQ March 24 2002
- Nebuchadnezzar - Footprints -claimed by dann
- Jan Smuts -ap
- Yom Kippur War - Saige (claimed on 2002.05.04 by elem_125)
- Six-Day War - Oolong -claimed by Transitional Man (08/12/02)
- Panama-Pacific International Exposition - maus
- Ptolemy - Frankie
- Suleiman I (1494-1566), Ottoman Sultan - atesh
- Abraham Lincoln needs a thorough biography
Politics and Government
- John Paul II - Nice writeup, but maybe more information about his past? - jay
- Deng Xiaoping - f.b. Gz
- Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator, f.b. Gz
- Jim Wright - Former Speaker of the House. Felled by Newt Gingrich.
- Environmental Protection Agency
- National Health Systems - Great Neb
- British Prime Ministers is a list of PMs (unsurprisingly), many of whom need rescuing.
- Republican and Republican Party -ap
- Spiro Agnew -ap
- John Major - Mortice
- UNITA - União Nacional Para A Independencia Total De Angola - Angolan resistance (?) . Needs lots of info and history.
- White Rose claimed by alex 28th March 2002
- Ehud Barak - arieh
- John Turner erstwhile Canadian Prime Minster
- Paul Martin Canadian politician
- Ted Kennedy (enth)
- United Nations - Palpz
- Nelson Mandela - Mortice claimed by Posmella 15 June 2002
- Socialist Workers Party - wp
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - caknuck
- MPLA, the Movimento Popular da Libertação de Angola - irexe
- Diet, the Japanese Parliament - Nero
- Act of Parliament - wertperch
- NATO - claimed by Nero, 10/31/02
- George Papadopoulos
- José María Aznar - Spanish prime minister - CatherineB
Culture and general media
- burqa - suggested by DrSeudo
- knight - atesh
- YMCA is more than just a song - exceptinsects
- hogmanay - new years day where children walk from door to door. Needs info, history, etc.
- women's suffrage claimed by alex
- Boxing Day - needs history, explanation etc.
- baby-boomer
- Gund (the kid's fluffy toy) - needs facts!
- Houses of Parliament (House of Lords and Commons are done, we need architechture and history) claimed by Teiresias 25th March 2002
- edict and enmadict, Japanese dictionaries - rdude
Military
- Tactics
- rifle
- joust - tournament or single battle of war (?)
- kama
- Hattori Hanzo - founder of one of the famous ninja clans - Teiresias
- Special Air Service - British Army elite force, - wertperch
- Special Boat Squadron - British Marines elite force, - wertperch
- Stonewall Jackson - Great Neb
Law
- Harassment -(found and claimed by rdude on 2001.12.18)
- bar - DrSeudo
MISCELLANEOUS OTHER AND UNCLASSIFIED
Religion, esotericism etc.
- communion - suggested by mr100percent
- The Celestine Prophecy - DH
- dharma - dg
- monk - perhaps a history! (sloebertje)
- shamanism - wertperch -claimed by sloebertje
- Angel -ap
- Mennonite Church - gleeme
- Presbyterian Church - atesh
- Everything on saints (all) - sludgeel
- 2 Maccabees
Mythology and Legend
Food and Drink (booze included)
- Frothé - Devon_Hart
- main course - atesh
- L'chaim (the Jewish toast) - suggested by The Oolong Man
- preservative - ssd
- Chuckles the confection - WWWWolf
- nabe - Japanese soup/stew, - Teiresias
- Banks Mild - Teiresias
- Satsuma, the fruit - shimmer
Words and Phrases
- bowdlerize - unearthed by BlueDragon
- Amharic
- killing joke
People and general biography
- Boy Scout something more about the movement, perhaps - claimed by TheChronicler March 2002
- Thomas Chippendale the furniture maker, needs biography - wertperch
- Kwanzaa the winter festival
- Steve Ballmer needs a biography - NL
- Joe Girardi - ?
- Helvetius / Claude Adrien Helvetius
- Philippe Starck - the architect - from Footprints
- Rudolf Hess - part of Hitler's war machinery. Needs some kind of bio.
- Jack Greenberg - wertperch
- James Fenimore Cooper - Gritchka
- Susan Powter
- Frank James
- Paul Auster - wedgeantilles
- John Mills Bristish actor - wp
- Michael Tieman
- Robert Forster - WolfDaddy
- Henry Ford of Ford Motors fame - Palpz
- Sol Yurick - Saige
- Nora Ephron - anthropod
- Akbar Emperor of the Sind in India - RubenAzarja
- Paul Reed Smith owner of pRS Guitars, - irexe
- Pablo Escobar - maus
- Colonel Parker - caknuck
- Leslie Lamport - shimmer
- David Shaylor - shimmer
- Ginger Mackenzie - shimmer
- Edsger W. Dijkstra needs a good bio and a cleanup - irexe
- Ian Hacking - Oolong
- Nancy Cartwright - Oolong
- Ronnie Kray, London villain - dreamwalker
- Reggie Kray - dreamwalker
- Amanda Detmer - caknuck
- Werner Heisenberg - Oolong
- Jon-benet Ramsey - irexe
- Jacques Cartier - caknuck
- Henry Morgentaler
- David Bailey
- Don King the boxing promoter
Press and media
- New York Free Press The node is very light on information. Takers? - jay
- Diane Sawyer - Starke7764
- The New York Times Bestseller List - Toxick
- Panorama, the BBC programme - Teiresias
- Rolling Stone - WolfDaddy
- Jan Wenner (founder of Rolling Stone magazine) - WolfDaddy
- Scott Dikkers of The Onion -ap
- Salon, the online magazine - icicle
Education
- Hampshire College - Saige
- Bates College - This needs a factual writeup - jb
- London School of Economics - anthropod
- SAT - wp
- Loyola University - Lucy-S
- MBA - wertperch
- Daniel Webster College - blandoon
- RSI - rdude
- Vanderbilt University - caknuck
- Ohio State University - caknuck
- Louisiana State University - caknuck
- Wake Forest University - caknuck
Companies and products
- Black & Decker could use some retooling - CG
- Ray-Ban needs it - thanks to (darsi)
- Edison Illumination Company unique and cool find - thanks to (darsi)
- Selfridges - Professor Pi
- Buick
- Jumper cables the tennis courts of the French Open -pp
- spring, autumn (fall) and winter - Great Neb
- speakeasy - kiladogg
- Research - Kidas
- tie - slobertje
- Wellington, City, boot, character from The Perishers - Demeter
- role-play in all of its connotations - wertperch
- Pluto the Roman God, the planet, the cartoon dog etc. etc. - caknuck
- Playing By Heart claimed by gleeme