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Pungle N. [Durham, UK; Portmanteau, Spangle + Bungle] A Spangle Of No Actual Usefulness.
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spungle n.
[Durham, UK; portmanteau, spangle +
bungle] A spangle of no actual usefulness. Example: Roger the
Bent Paperclip in Microsoft Word '98. A spungle's only virtue is
that it looks pretty, unless you find creeping featurism ugly.
Related:
pangle n. [UK] The singular of bells and whistles. See also spungle
feature creep n. [common] The result of creeping featurism, as in "Emacs has a bad case of feature creep".
Sometimes you don't need to be familiar with a better alternative to know that something sucks.
Take Microsoft Word for example. Eran Keida...
vaston n. [Durham, UK] The unit of `load average'.
A measure of how much work a computer is doing....
Windows: It's not pretty. It's not ugly. But it's pretty ugly.
andom adj. 1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical definition)
weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly....
creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing retu
something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the {Real World}....