Related:

• xor /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'.
  I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is true....
• munching squares: n. A {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T --- see {HAKMEM} items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• for values of: [MIT] A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical {random numbers} as placeholders for variables.
  The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42....
• munching squares n. A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T -- see HAKMEM items 146-148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• handle: n. 1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym
  a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's true identity....
• he X that can be Y is not the true X: Yet another instance of hackerdom's peculiar attraction to mystical references --- a common humorous way of making exclusive statements about a class of things.
  The template is from the "Tao te Ching": "The Tao which can be spoken of is not the true Tao....
• BLT: /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ n.,vt. Synonym for {blit}.
  This is the original form of {blit} and the ancestor of {bitblt}....
• angry fruit salad: n. A bad visual-interface design that uses too many colors.
  (This term derives, of course, from the bizarre day-glo colors found in canned fruit salad....