1) Crazy, madcap, unwieldy, or anarchistic.

2) A perticular style of journalism used most famously by writer Hunter S. Thompson in the 60s and 70s, in which the journalist becomes a part of the action. A natural extension of Tom Wolfe's "New Journalism", Based upon the idea that fiction and journalism are both a means to the same end, and that the best journalists have always known this.

3) A blue character on the Muppets with a very phallic nose.

4) A style of first-person pornography, from the view of the camera operator.

satirical/political/anarchistic movement in the mid '60, Amsterdam The Netherlands.

A state of government or rule where in all senses of morality and sociatal correctness are discarded and an anarchistic rule is established. First realised by two chatroom members known as the Vipers when they took power and set themselves up as the demigods of the known boards. One may also take a Vipocratic oath in which one shows his respect to the randomness of life and rule of the Vipers and is willing to adhere to the customs that are in place at that specific time.

Stands for: Boys Entering Anarchistic State Towards Internal Excellence

From the Beastie Boys

Benevolent Dictator for Life.

The informal, slightly tongue-in-cheek title given to a respected individual in the open source development community who sets general directions and makes final calls in certain situations within the scope of a given project. The BDFL is a tacit acknowledgement that communal, consensus-based decision making within the open source community occasionally runs up against obstacles, in which case a single authoritative voice can be useful. That BDFLs survive and flourish in these otherwise anarchistic contexts is attributed to their personal charisma and their reluctance to wield their power except in rare moments.

Of course, a project coordinator cannot really be anything like a dictator in the sense that he or she ultimately cannot enforce a decision, since a project fork is always possible.

Not all, or even most, open source projects have a BDFL.

Note the difference from the historical meaning of benevolent dictator, which is used in a political context.

List of Benevolent Dictators for Life

Blender
Ton Roosendaal

Drupal content management framework
Dries Buytaert

Linux kernel
Linus Torvalds, explicitly recognising the "benevolent dictator" epithet, e.g. in the interview published August 18, 2004 in Business Week

OpenBSD operating system
Theo de Raadt

Perl programming language
Larry Wall

PHP programming language
Rasmus Lerdorf

Python programming language
Guido van Rossum, known for his co...

Contrary to what alot of people think about punk rock, it isn't a completely individualistic musical movement with no rules or boundries. If this were true, than pretty much anything could be punk rock, so long as the musicians intent was not adhere to any rules while composing the music. This would mean that classical, folk, new wave, pop, heavy metal, or any combination of the above, or a completely new genre of music never heard of before could all be punk. Bands such as mr bungle or fantomas who incorporate many genres into their music, and seem to never have two songs that sound the same should than be considered more punk than the ramones or the sex pistols, since they conform to no previous musical standards. The truth is that Punks tend to be very rigid about what they consider to be punk or not, more rigid than alot of people who listen to music other than punk. As soon as someone playing punk rock tries to incorporate some other genre into punk you'll here people say, "that's not punk, that's pop punk or new wave". Punk rock began, and is still considered today to be fast loud 3 chord rock and roll music characterized by either nihilistic lyrics about sex, drugs and violence, or some kind of anarcho-communist utopia. Some punks will say to you out of confusion that bands like avirl lavigne or simple plan aren't punk rock because they don't write their music or cause they are just playing music to conform to the rules of the masses, but who the hell are they to sa...

If John Lennon was a communist. An anarchistic representation of popular culture in America.