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Jargon Coiner (#6)
An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon
that we've just made up.
* TLDography (pronounced till-daw-graffy): The study of top leval domains.
Example: "I asked my friend, a TLDographer, what country .ca stood for,
and he responded, 'California, of course'."
* TLDofy (pronounced till-duh-fy): Identifying a country by its top level
domain.
Example: "Oh, so you're from .de? Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"
* HTML lapse: A period of time when the brain slips into thinking in HTML.
Related:
Jargon Coiner (#5) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* DUKE OF URL: A person who publishes their Netscape bookmark file on their homepage....
Jargon Coiner (#6) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* STOP MIRAGE: Trying to click on an imaginary Stop button on a program's toolbar after doing something you didn't want to....
Jargon Coiner (#9) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* RHYMES WITH CYNICS: The final answer to any debate about how to pronounce Linux....
Jargon Coiner (#1) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* WINCURSE: Loud expletive uttered when a Linux user comes face-to-face with a computer containing a WinModem....
Jargon Coiner (#2) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* SLASHDUP EFFECT, THE: Accidentally posting two or more duplicate comments to Slashdot, usually as the result of hitting ENTER at the wrong time or fumbling with the Preview option....
Jargon Coiner (#8) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* STAR SPINOFFS: Applying themes and ideas from "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" to contemporary events....
Jargon Coiner (#4) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* FREE LECTURE: Attempting to explain the concepts of Linux, Open Source software, free software, and gift cultures to someone who is not familiar with them....
Jargon Coiner (#13) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* NINETY-NINERS: In 1849, a horde of people ("Forty-niners") headed to California to pan gold and get rich quick....
Jargon Coiner (#12) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
* IPO (I've Patented the Obvious): Acquiring patents on trivial things and then hitting other companies over the head with them....
