Blue Snails Friendly online term for US postal workers.
Car Cloning A method of making a stolen vehicle "disappear" by copying another auto's license plate and vehicle ID and applying them to the stolen car.
Click-Wrap Agreements The software-licensing agreements that go into effect when you click the I Agree button; the virtual version of the long-standing "shrink-wrap agreement." Also called "Web-wrap agreements."
Greenspeak The often impenetrable conundrums that Alan Greenspan utters. Interpretations of Greenspeak can cause the market to rise or fall, in what is known as the Greenspan effect.
Toxic Worriers People who obsess over everything that could possibly go wrong - to the point of paralysis. Toxic worriers are two and a half times more likely to suffer heart attacks than less stressed-out individuals.
Facebase A visual database used in the computer-based recognition and identification of a face.
Tip o' the golf cap to Ernest Limperis and Paul McFedries.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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