User:Lee Daniel Crocker
I am a professional computer programmer, semi-pro poker player, amateur philosopher (specifically a devotee of Karl Popper), and a dilettante at just about everything else. More details and more up-to-date information can be found on my personal pages, which also use the Wiki software. You can send email to [email protected], or to [email protected] (Please use the latter address for Wikipedia and Nupedia related matters).
Because I am skeptical of the value of intellectual property law in general and copyrights in particular, I explicitly place all creative works original to me in the public domain. If you see an article here that looks like it was primarily written by me (such as ASCII, poker, copyright, and many related pages), and you wish to use it in a way not permitted by the GNU Free Documentation License, contact me. I may have a public domain version containing only my work which I will happily give you. I intend to put much of that on my personal Wiki.
It seems to be a tradition here to list pages one has created or edited. I've long since lost track of how many pages I've edited, and many of the pages I created or overhauled no longer bear any resemblance to my original text. But to give some sense of what I'm interested in and what my style of writing is, I list below a few pages which still contain a majority of their text written by me:
Karl Popper - Mortimer Adler - Ken Kesey
Game theory - Playing card - Stone, Paper, Scissors - Scrabble - Poker (and all of its related pages) - Casino - Gambling - Pai gow - Pai gow poker - Chinese dominoes
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - American and British English Differences - Lojban - Loglan - Umlaut - Prisoner's dilemma - Milgram experiment - Critical philosophy - Scientific method - Prion - Probability - Scientific mythology - Selfish Gene - Meme
Intellectual property - Copyright - Patent - Trademark (and some related pages like Feist v. Rural) - United States Constitution - Calendar - Gregorian calendar
ASCII - Code - Computer character - Character encoding - Text encoding - Markup language - Unicode - wikipedia:Special characters (and several related pages) - Internet - World Wide Web - Hypertext - XML - HTML - Data compression
Interpreted language - Java programming language - Object-oriented programming (and its referenced pages Abstraction in object-oriented programming, Encapsulation in object-oriented programming, Inheritance in object-oriented programming, and Polymorphism in object-oriented programming)
Cooking - Bourbon - Cocktail - Bloody Mary - Manhattan cocktail - Martini
Use of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
As many here know, various versions of the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica are available and are in the public domain. http://www.1911encyclopedia.com/ is one such source. While this is a great resource, especially for history, it should be noted that much of the text is quite dated both in content and style, and reflects the academic culture of late-19th-century England. Good use can be made of it, however, by judicious editing. Below are a few example of what I think are good articles with content taken from that EB and updated: