CSI Effect
The impossibly high expectations jurors have for DNA and other crime scene evidence after watching a few episodes of CSI.
Generation O
Slang term for today's swelling population of dangerously obese children.
Chimping
Pro sports photographers' habit of flipping over their digicams to preview shots and to periodically ooh-ooh-ooh over the good ones.
Hide-and-Sleep Weapons
"Weapons that can loiter over a battlefield or sneak into enemy territory and 'sleep' until an appropriate military target blunders into their sights," according to The Straits Times of Singapore. Example: Lockheed Martin's Loitering Attack Missile, which seeks out mobile artillery.
Missing Mars
Screwing up an engineering project by failing to specify whether the metric or English measurement system is being used. Refers to the Mars Climate Orbiter, which was lost when two teams used different systems to build key components.
START
signal : noise
The Shape of Things to Come
Nick Denton, Blog Mogul
Why GM Food Could Start a Trade War
The FBI's Candyman Cases Go Sour
Oh, Nooo! What If GPS Fails?
Open Source Spuds
jargon watch
Getting High for Science
3 Ways to Rethink the Pay Phone
The High Priest of the Atari Cult
The Bleeding Edge
Four Ways the FCC Screwed Up
Wired | Tired | Expired
