Jargon Watch
Adminisphere
The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
Exercise Bulimics
People who compulsively work out after eating and gauge their workout by how many calories they need to burn off to remove the food they just ate. "Only 2,000 more minutes on the StairMaster to burn off that cherry pie."
IMNERHO
Net acronym for In My Never Even Remotely Humble Opinion. Variant form of IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) and IMNSHO (In My Not So Humble Opinion).
Netsploitation Flick
Any one of the current (or in-production) Hollywood films about the big, scary Internet (The Net, f2f, Hackers).
Rimm Job
A bogus academic study masquerading as legitimate science. Named after Marty Rimm, author of the dubious "cyberporn" study from Carnegie Mellon University that Time magazine gullibly took as gospel.
Tourists
People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had about three serious students in the class; the rest were tourists."
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
A tip o' the pith helmet to Tom Kelleher, Steve Dober, Stanton McCandlish, Will Kreth, Monty Nicol.
