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• meme plague n. The spread of a successful but pernicious meme, esp.
  one that parasitizes the victims into giving their all to propagate it....
• meme: /meem/ [coined by analogy with `gene', by Richard Dawkins] n.
  An idea considered as a {replicator}, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do....
• meme /meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene', by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp.
  with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do....
• ig virus: n. A parasitic {meme} embedded in a {sig block}.
  There was a {meme plague} or fad for these on USENET in late 1991....
• MicroDroid: [USENET] n. A Microsoft employee, esp. one who posts to various operating-system advocacy newsgroups.
  MicroDroids post follow-ups to any messages critical of Microsoft's operating systems, and often end up sounding like visiting Mormon missionaries....
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• cookbook: [from amateur electronics and radio] n. A book of small code segments that the reader can use to do various {magic} things in programs.
  One current example is the "{{PostScript}} Language Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the {Blue Book} which has recipes for things like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts....
• languages of choice: n. {C} and {LISP}. Nearly every hacker knows one of these, and most good ones are fluent in both.
  Smalltalk and Prolog are also popular in small but influential communities....
• memetics: /me-met'iks/ [from {meme}] The study of memes.
  As of mid-1993, this is still an extremely informal and speculative endeavor, though the first steps towards at least statistical rigor have been made by H....