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• faradize /far'*-di:z/ v. [US Geological Survey] To start any hyper-addictive process or trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend.
  Telling one user about a new octo-tetris game you compiled would be a faradizing act -- in two weeks you might find your entire department playing the faradic game....
• brain dump: n. The act of telling someone everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
  Typically used when someone is going to let a new party maintain a piece of code....
• xyzzy: /X-Y-Z-Z-Y/, /X-Y-ziz'ee/, /ziz'ee/, or /ik-ziz'ee/ [from the ADVENT game] adj.
  The {canonical} `magic word'. This comes from {ADVENT}, in which the idea is to explore an underground cave with many rooms and to collect the treasures you find there....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• That's all life is -- one big word game. Don't lie to yourself about it anymore.
  P.S. You are now enlightened. -- Carl Frederick, "est: Playing the Game the New Way...
• monty: /mon'tee/ [US Geological Survey] n. A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
• Unobfuscated Perl (#2) A rogue group of Perl hackers has presented a plan to add a "use really_goddamn_strict" pragma that would enforce readability and UNobfuscation.
  With this pragma in force, the Perl compiler might say...
• window shopping: [US Geological Survey] n. Among users of {WIMP environment}s like {X} or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes.
  This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time....
• The following appeared in an editorial in a business magazine.
  "Although the sales of Whirlwind video games have declined over the past two years, a recent survey of video-game players suggests that this sales trend is about to be reversed....