A cackbean is a visual representation of interesting events along a timeline. Cackbeans are used to show where in the time line an event occured.

Cackbeans made it into the mainstream when they started being used in visual computer interfaces like finance.google.com and webMethods Optimize.
According to the cackbean on this chart, our stocks were trending up at 3 PM.
by MattGreen November 21, 2006
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