Carbage
The uniformly awful-tasting junk foods - chips, cookies, candy bars, and other snacks - marketed to people on low-carbohydrate diets.
Kruegerware
Browser-hijacking software that, like Freddie Krueger, just won't die. Some of these evil pop-up apps get their hooks into your Windows registry, so even if you delete everything associated with them and reinstall your browser, they still come back to haunt you.
Bluespamming
Sending unsolicited advertising to cell phones and other Bluetooth-enabled devices. As Gizmodo.com warns, "If you're looking for a way to finally kill off Bluetooth, Bluespam is probably the way to do it."
Click Fraud
Hiring low-wage workers in China, India, and elsewhere to do nothing but tap on advertising links that pay host sites based on the number of clickthroughs.
Lawfare
Warfare pursued through aggressive legal maneuvers, like the court ruling that found Israel's security wall violates international law.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)Thanks to contributors Xeni Jardin, David Pescovitz, Barry Popik, and Jay Townsend
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