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Highest rated words
- instant message
- The shortest path between a middle-aged man and a conviction for statutory solicitation.
- Metafilter
- More nozzle than filter: a Web site that doesn’t reduce the information flow so much as shape it into a stinging, inconsumable torrent.
- schedule
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A fairy tale with a happy ending, told by the optimistic to the
ignorant.
“I see the schedule says we ship next week — good, good.”
- privacy
- A quality possessed by those too boring to spy on.
- podcast
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The audible form of “blog,” in
much the same way that a series of unhappy grunts and splashes is the
audible form of “stomach flu.”
“Get outta my way! I think I’m gonna podcast!”
- post
- To broadcast one’s ignorance, arrogance, ego and insecurities to all entanglements, present and future, professional, casual and romantic.
- flamewar
- Reasoned discourse, when compared to the rest of the Internet.
- information architecture
- A vital component in the development of Web sites, used to round the budget up to the next hundred thousand dollars.
- p2p
- A class of computer network, designed to allow people to remain safely anonymous while they trade public domain documents and songs to which they own the copyright.
- cluetrain
- One of a series of mythical locomotives, slavishly worshiped by bad-metaphor fetishists for their rhetorical value; they ultimately prove to be only a source of awkward pauses and embarrassed coughs. See also peacetrain, soultrain.