Blackholing: When an ISP or other online service automatically deletes all email coming from a certain domain without delivering it. "Sites have been blackholing all Well email, legitimate or not, because of the quantity of Well-relayed spam deluging their servers."
Form Art: A genre that uses only HTML-coded form elements to create Web-based art.
__Post-Greenspan:__The aftermath of comments made by Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan on the US or world economy. "The post-Greenspan euphoria has subsided around of the globe."
Rumint: Short for rumored intelligence. A play on the intelligence jargon humint (human intelligence). "According to rumint, the Air Force will reveal one or two black projects in April."
Sloppy Clicker: Someone who always manages to move screen icons whenever he or she clicks on them.
Wince: Derogatory slang for Windows CE. Anyone who’s tried to find something on one of these lilliputian Windows desktops knows why this is funny.
*Tip o’ the wool felt fedora to Jeb Bates, Michelle Fox, Jerry D. Fugate Jr., Robert A. Muir, and Steve Prinsen. *
This article originally appeared in the February issue of Wired magazine.
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