worm poll n.— «Those who like nothing better than an evening watching The West Wing know the format. Voters turn a dial to say if they are pleased, indifferent or hostile as they listen to a speech. A “worm poll” describes the...
value chain n.— «The companies that produce/own audio recordings, video, TV shows and films don’t trust the general public (a director of a large film distributor used those very words to me). Because they don’t trust you, they want to...
mojibake n.— «Mojibake is a word to describe unintelligible gibberish displayed on a screen or printed on a paper when a software fails to handle encodings or fonts in the data stream. Mojibake is spelled in Japanese as...
janky adj.— «Twenty-eight girls, most of whom were nervous and janky and fell down once or twice, slunk off to joylessly watch their bad numbers roll up on the screen.» —by Cintra Wilson A Massive Swelling July 13, 2000...
jinky adj.— «I got this yesterday, I thought it was just me. Except that the screen went all jinky and I had to do a soft reset. Very strange.» —“Re: Reseating Stylus in PalmPro turns it off” by W. Gary Martin (wgary@ibm...
trout pout n.— «Trout-pout Liz is desperate to rival screen siren Sharon Stone, who whipped fans into a frenzy with her infamous no-knickers scene in smash hit thriller Basic Instinct.» —“Lovely Liz Bares All” by Leigh...