Best Ales
Abbott's. Director's. IPA. Old Speckled Hen.
Best Beers
Anything Belgian.
Best Celebrations
London. Sydney.
Best Comebacks
Steve Jobs.
Best Compilers
cc. gcc. Lattice C.
Best Computers
Crystal Palace. W.O.P.R.
Best Computer Games
Adventure. Burger Time. Global Thermonuclear War. Space Travel.
Best Computer Keyboards
IBM's 3270. IBM's APL. IBM's original PC. Sinclair Spectrum's.
Best Computer-Related Job
Ringing the wake-up bells in Lhasa.
Best Computer Trojans
Internet Explorer.
Best Computer Viruses
COPYIIPC. Form. Windows.
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Best Desserts
Angela's Mum's Cheese Cake. Spotted Dick for the name alone. Tirami Su.
Best Discoveries
Berkeley's of ETI. Bill Gates' of Tim Paterson. IBM's of Microsoft. Steve Johnson's of DMR running up and down the stairs. Silicon. XYZZY.
Best Drinks
Bowmore's 29yo. Bubbly from the Dom. Classic Fransk Rost. Darjeeling. Jolt. Julmust.
Best Geek Foods
Anything Chinese. English Sunday carveries. Sicilian. Thanksgiving Day Turkey. Swedish Julbord.
Best Geek Forums
RISKS Digest. /..
Best Geek Mistresses
Lord Byron's daughter.
Best Geek Movie or TV Scenes
Peggy Bundy placing a flower vase on her PC monitor. Al Bundy smashing Peggy's PC with a baseball bat.
Best Geek Movies
Bladerunner. The Empire Strikes Back. A New Hope. WarGames.
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Best Hotels
The Balmoral, Edinburgh. Den Bonten Os, Keerbergen. The Georges V, Paris. The Grand, Stockholm. The Lime Tree, London.
Best Inventions
The 4004. B. BCPL. Hollerith's census system. The modem. The pocket calculator. The New B. root. Shockley's Transmitter-Resistor. The sticky bit.
Best News Items
The Linux user who paid Microsoft's InterNIC fee. The August 2 Microsoft hacker's challenge. The DOJ outcome.
Best Operating Systems
UNIX. Linux. NeXTSTEP.
Best Places on Earth
Alice Springs. The Bahamas. The Cotswolds. Felixstowe. Keerbergen. Les Sables. Lier. London. The Maldives. Milton. Stockholm.
Best Programs
cc. csh. diff. ined. ksh. pccm. ROM II. SETI@Home. sh. yacc.
Best Programmers
Seymour Cray. Grace Hopper. Andi Höller. Rob Keir. BWK. DMR. Ken. The Woz.
Best Programming Books
The original K/R. The July 1975 BSTJ. The Software Tools Series. Alice in Wonderland.
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Best Programming Languages
APL. C. FORTRAN. Microcode. Objective-C.
Best Pubs
The Bear of Rodborough. The Ebury Wine Bar. The Red Lion in Brinkley. The Wild Duck.
Best Quotes
'Your batteries are running low.' '640K ought to be enough for anybody.' 'A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?' 'What's the difference?' 'Hey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure.' 'I don't know but it's great.'
Best Red Wines
Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Almost any Chianti.
Best Restaurants
ASK at Victoria. The Ebury Wine Bar. The Five Miles from Anywhere No Hurry Riverside Inn. Leopardi. The Pink Geranium. The Red Lion in Brinkley.
Best Room Service
The Balmoral, Edinburgh.
Best TV Series
Fawlty Towers. Monte Python's Flying Circus.
Best Websites
GeekTools.com. Magister-Lex.at. NEWS.com. /.
Best White Wines
Australian Chardonnay. Chateau d'Yquem.
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