14 definitions by Korgmeister

1: Software that serves no useful purpose, but impairs the function of your computer, often due to using up RAM. Unlike spyware or malware this is just due to poor design rather than malicious intent.

2: Software designed to make computers easier for lusers to use, but ends up teaching them bad habits which cause them to wreck their computer or otherwise make using it more difficult than it needs to be.

Derogatory term for the collective mass of young women who seek to emulate Paris Hilton's sense of "Style".

Earnest young Christians have WWJD as their acronyn du jour.

Cynics have NMFP - Not My Fucking Problem.

Recite this calming mantra the next time someone tries to make your life unnecessarily difficult.

Translation from scientist to normal person speak: We honestly have no fucking idea.

Sometimes, even scientists don't know what's going on. At times like that they tend to act like everyone else, which is that they assume the most popular idea must be correct. Unfortunately, this is sophistry, not science.

A Playstation 3.

The PS3 is considered by some of its detractors to possess a passing physical resemblance to the George Foreman Grill. As such, those not fond of the console often like to dismissively refer to it as the (much cheaper) cooking appliance.

In a teamwork situation, an extremely irrational person, who takes charge of a project through sheer force of will rather than competence and leads it in a direction which guarantees failure.

Background: The Don Quixote of literature had a tendency to do extraordinarily stupid things without thinking them through. But people were loathe to try and stop him on account of his being a few cans short of a six pack.

A situation with the potential to explode into serious drama, but which can be prudently avoided by remaining silent/lurking.