Ravenwood - 12/04/02 02:42 PM
Now for some fun stuff. Here are some of my favorite 'definitions' from Wired's Jargon Watch:
Basement Area Network - A small local-area network installed in a home to link several household PCs.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30 minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"
Ejectrode - A tool (usually made from a bent paper clip) used for manually ejecting disks from a disk drive.
Link Rot - The process by which links on a Web page become obsolete as the sites they're connected to change location or die.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Prairie Dogging - When someone yells or drops something loudly in an office, prompting everyone's head to pop up over their cubicle walls to see what's going on.
Prebuttal - A rebuttal written in anticipation of the need to rebut. A common preemptive tactic in online flame wars.
Spamouflage - Bulk email messages delivered from generic email addresses with innocuous subject headers in order to confound filtering programs and spam-hating readers.
Swiped Out - ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away by extensive use at gas pumps, grocery checkouts, and bank machines. "We wanted to stop for suds, but my card was swiped out and I couldn't get cash."
Vubicle - The much coveted office cubicle with a window.
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