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Dilberted
  To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences
  of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been dilberted
  again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."

Link Rot
  The process by which links on a web page became as obsolete as the sites
  they're connected to change location or die.

Chip Jewelry
  A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into
  decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's
  nothing but chip jewelry."

Crapplet
  A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. "I just wasted 30
  minutes downloading this stinkin' crapplet!"

Plug-and-Play
  A new hire who doesn't need any training. "The new guy, John, is great.
  He's totally plug-and-play."

World Wide Wait
  The real meaning of WWW.

CGI Joe
  A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma
  of a plastic action figure.

Dorito Syndrome
  Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive
  substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours
  surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome."

Under Mouse Arrest
  Getting busted for violating an online service's rule of conduct.  "Sorry
  I couldn't get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest."

Glazing
  Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open. A popular pastime at
  conferences and early-morning meetings. "Didn't he notice that half the
  room was glazing by the second session?"

404
  Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web message "404, URL Not
  Found," meaning that the document you've tried to access can't be located.
  "Don't bother asking him...he's 404, man."

Dead Tree Edition
  The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic
  forms, as in: "The dead tree edition of the San Francisco Chronicle..."

Egosurfing
  Scanning the net, databases, print media, or research papers looking for
  the mention of your name.

Graybar Land
  The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing
  something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the
  screen). "I was in graybar land for what seemed like hours, thanks to that
  CAD rendering."

Open-Collar Workers
  People who work at home or telecommute.

Squirt The Bird
  To transmit a signal up to a satellite. "Crew and talent are ready...what
  time do we squirt the bird?"

Brain Fart
  A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly.  A burst
  of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but
  can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?" Variation of old hacker
  slang that had more negative connotations.

Cobweb Site
  A World Wide Web Site that hasn't been updated for a long time.  A dead
  web page.

It's a Feature
  From the adage "It's not a bug, it's a feature."  Used sarcastically to
  describe an unpleasant experience that you wish to gloss over.

Keyboard Plaque
  The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards. "Are
  there any other terminals I can use? This one has a bad case of keyboard
  plaque."

Career-Limiting Move (CLM)
  Used among microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity.  Trashing your
  boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.

Elvis Year
  The peak year of something's popularity. "Barney the dinosaur's Elvis year
  was 1993."

Alpha Geek
  The most knowledgable, technically proficient person in an office or work
  group. "Ask Larry, he's the alpha geek around here."

Adminisphere
  The rarified organizational layers beginning just above the rack and file.
  Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly
  inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

Tourists
  People who are taking training classes just to get a vacation from their
  jobs. "We had about three serious students in the class; the rest were
  tourists."

Blowing Your Buffer
  Losing one's train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking
  with won't let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so
  astonishing that your train gets derailed. "Damn, I just blew my buffer!"

Gray Matter
  Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms
  looking to appear more reputable and established.

Bookmark
  To take note of a person for future reference (a metaphor borrowed from
  web browsers). "I bookmarked him after seeing his cool demo at Siggraph."

Nyetscape
  Nickname for AOL's less-than-full-featured Web browser.

Beepilepsy
  The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off,
  especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy
  facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.

Salmon Day
  The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get
  screwed in the end.