By Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
Berlin Firewall An Internet gateway that allows only the most basic port operations (mail, Web, limited news). Usually run by retentive sysadmins who hate the idea of anybody actually telnetting anywhere.
Defragmenting the Office Cleaning and organizing your office in a desperate attempt at making sense of it all. "The servers I ordered didn't show up today, so I spent the afternoon defragging the office."
Extremophile An organism that can live in conditions of heat, radiation, or toxicity normally considered inhospitable to life.
Pseudo-Supervisor A federal employee who's neither rank-and-file nor a full-fledged supervisor (i.e., someone with all of the responsibility and none of the authority or appropriate compensation of a supervisor). The Feds have recently begun using the more dignified-sounding "team leader."
Shipper (Short for "relationshipper.") A viewer of a sci-fi or fantasy TV show (The X-Files, Star Trek, Babylon 5) who writes erotic fiction about fantasized relationships between the show's stars. Similar to the older fan-fiction term slash, for imagined homoerotic pairings (as in Kirk/Spock).
A tip o' the batter's helmet to Simon Forrester, James Giusti, Michael Oliver, and Vince Pugliese.
STREET CRED
Speech Recognition - To Go Dutch Hitmeister
When the Background Eclipses the Game
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