Dark Parties
Matchmaking gimmick where prospective paramours eat dinner in total darkness, waited on by servers using night-vision goggles. It's extreme blind dating.
Me2Me
Sharing media files - movies, TV shows, music - among one's own playback devices. Copyright holders have attempted to label the practice as piracy.
Digital Plumbers
Service geeks-specially trained to set up, maintain, and repair digital home network "pipes" that now connect everything from PCs to alarm systems and coffeemakers.
Happy Slapping
A disturbing British fad in which hooligans attack innocent people on the street, record the assaults on videophones, and then share the footage with friends or upload it to the Internet.
Blobology
The art of scrutinizing and interpreting ambiguous, lo-res imagery. Practiced by spy agencies and, more recently, neuroscientists studying brain scans.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
Thanks to contributor Cory Doctorow
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