Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
Boycott : A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong. It may sometimes be labelled as Continue reading Found Words: Boycott
Splogs : short for blog spam, “automated” blogs that point to other blogs with the goal of driving up search engine results, or as they call it, “search engine optimization” (SEO). Also Blogs which do not add value, and exist Continue reading Found Words : Splogs
ExoCortex : From Greek “exÅ” for outside; and from Latin “cortex” for bark, the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain. My ExoCortex is my Brain outside my Brain. Hardware or Software. Clear? Early examples include 6,620 B.C.E. and Continue reading Found Words: ExoCortex
Via: Joi Ito’s“Yak shaving is the technical term for when you find yourself eight levels deep – and possibly in an recursive loop – in a stack of jobs.”. And what do you get when you shave a Yak? Sometimes Continue reading Found Words : Yak Shaving
apophenia: the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena. The term was coined by K. Conrad in 1958 (Brugger). Or to take the subtitle of this blog “making connections where none previously existed”. Spotted in The Intimate Planet Continue reading Found Words: Apophenia
Systempunkt: evolved from the german “schwerpunkt”, “Systempunk” is the point in a system (infrastructure or market) where a swarm of small insults will cause a cascade of collapse (phsyical or psychology) in system. One of those asymmetrical warfare things I Continue reading Found Words : Systempunkt