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Heroinware Nickname for multiplayer online games like EverQuest - dubbed EverCrack by hardcore players - that can become addictive and do serious damage to relationships and careers.
Micestronauts Rodents that would be sent into Earth orbit to study the effects of living - and reproducing - at reduced gravity. The project, proposed by the Mars Society, would yield data that could be used to help plan a long-term trip to the Red Planet.
Vokens Short for virtual tokens, the Web advertising gimmick du jour.
The little rich-media interruptions hover or crawl over a browser window, begging for your attention. Bravo Canada's Sex and the City page, for example, includes a floating, twirling pack of Extra Polar Ice gum.
Neo-Creo A person who's part of the neo-creationism, or "intelligent design," movement, which relies on science and logic rather than Scripture to argue that life is too complicated to have arisen by evolution.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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Woman of Substance
Egomania? We Can Rebuild It
The New Scream machines
Playing With Fire
Vaporware
Bush's Cybersnoop
Into the Abyss
Say Good-Bye to Plastic
Time Machines
Jargon Watch
A Crystal Ball for War
Wired | Tired | Expired
The Mind's Eye
How to Disappear
