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• pike v. To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result.
  The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to spiking a relay by inserting a pin to hold the relay in either the closed or open state, and railroaders refer to spiking a track switch so that it cannot be moved....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Nothing is as permanent as that which is called temporary.
• Nothing is as temporary as that which is called permanent.
• Jose's Axiom: Nothing is a temporary as that which is called permanent.
  Corollary: Nothing is a permanent as that which is called temporary....
• oggle vt. To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state
  o change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions....
• oggle: vt. To change a {bit} from whatever state it is in to the other state
  o change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from `toggle switches', such as standard light switches, though the word `toggle' actually refers to the mechanism that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions....
• wormhole /werm'hohl/ n. [from the `wormhole' singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory] 1.
  [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine....
• phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
  Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine....