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Gate Rape
Frequent random searches of flight crews by airport security. Coined by pilots, who claim they�re easy targets because they can be punished for objecting to it.
Geek Hop
Hip hop with intellectual pretensions that draws as much from Talking Heads and indie rock as it does Run-DMC and traditional rap. Influential artists include Anticon and MC Paul Barman.
Stage-Phoning
Pretending to talk on a cell phone to impress bystanders. As British researcher Sadie Plant noted, �Some mobile users tend to make a virtue of the lack of privacy by stage-phoning.�
Swipers
New York City subway scam artists who buy low-cost all-day subway passes and then swipe passengers through the turnstiles in exchange for cash or tokens.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
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signal : noise
The Transparent Corporation
Lose $6,000, Win a Vacation
jargon watch
Pssst — Pirate Radio, Pass It On
Only You Can Prevent Spam
Cleaning Up Clean Rooms
Smashing Pumpkins
Why Telemarketing Is Evil
Playing the Numbers
The Six Degrees of Six Degrees
The Daily Tribunal
The Future Is � Then
The End of TV — Again
Wired | Tired | Expired
Nuclear Anxiety
