data smog n.— «She said most of her peers don’t know where to turn on the Internet besides free search engines. “It’s complicated,” she said. The Association of College and Research Librarians refers to it as “data smog.” Students deal...
underwater adj.— «Employee and investor attitudes changed profoundly after 2001, as the tech bust rendered millions of stock option grants worthless—”underwater” in valley parlance.» —“Stigma emerges, glitter fades for...
mezangelle n.— «The syntactical notation is taken from wildcards and regular expressions in programming languages and Unix command line interpreters forming an archetypical world. In mez’s own language “mezangelle,” it is called...
blutorial n.— «Blueyonder’s also adding a wireless channel to its website that will offer advice and a “video blutorial” (their name for it not ours, we hasten to add).» —“Telewest Broadband’s wireless wizard” Tech...
Goldilocks zone attrib.— «The economy seems to be getting into the Goldilocks zone of not- too-hot, not-too-cold.» —“Investors ride tech stocks higher” Boston Herald (Mass.) June 3, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued...
dibby-dibby adj.— «Admonitions against short skirts and flashy jewelry, or “dibby dibby” (sexually loose) styles are not merely prescriptions against casual or sloppy appearances.» —by Carla Freeman High Tech and...