pbmax's definitions

finger footsie

An alternate description of holding hands which reinforces its intimate aspects. Used by individuals who are feeling smothered by their significant others.

Whenever Cyriac played finger footsie with Priya, she felt like an animal in steel trap that must gnaw its appendage off to escape.

by PBMax January 9, 2009

Metattle

Someone who reveals that someone else has revealed something. From the Greek meta meaning "after" and the Middle English tattle meaning "tattle."

Vanity Fair metattled on W. Mark Felt's involvement in the Watergate scandal by outing him as "Deep Throat."

by PBMax November 4, 2007

memelitism

Disliking a meme because of other people liking it. This may be due to the quantity of others passing the idea along, or because the undesirable nature of the communities receiving it. A combination of "meme" and "elitist."

Sikander's memelitism kept him from reading danah boyd's blog once it was referenced in 'Newsweek.'

by PBMax January 5, 2009

flickr frolic

The act of absent-mindedly perusing flickr photostreams, often of people you don't know.

When Flickrvision or Tiltviewer bring up something really interesting, Franklyn likes to flickr frolic through those accounts.

by PBMax May 1, 2008

del.icio.us dawdle

Wasting time by looking at people's bookmarks on del.icio.us, usually someone you found because you've saved the same link.

danah likes to reconstruct the identity of a user from bookmarks she encounters during a del.icio.us dawdle, but it's mostly apophenia.

by PBMax May 1, 2008

factorial funny

Reading "!" used for punctuation as if they designated the mathematical function factorial.

LEX: I used Yahoo Factorial to look for Panic Fatorial @ The Disco concerts.
IRA: Since when is the word factorial funny?

by PBMax May 1, 2008

In Orbit Yellow

Black people with extremely fair complexions (because they're so HIGH yellow it's like they're in orbit around the earth).

JASON: Why aren't there any Black people in Guitar Hero?
DERON: There's Tom Morello; he's actually Halfrican.
JASON: But he's in orbit yellow; he'd ruin the curve on the brown paper bag test!
DERON: One-drop rule.

by PBMax May 1, 2008