pbmax's definitions

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

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

Paradour

Someone you like but don't like-like. A pun on paramour and adore. Rarely reciprocal, because what really is in this crazy, mixed-up world?

After she broke up with him, Guillermo couldn't help but become Leah's paradour, but she had hurt him too much for them to ever get back together.

by PBMax March 9, 2008

slow your blogroll

What you tell someone to do when that person is spending too much time online.

A combination of the word blogroll and the phrase slow your roll.

Slow your blogroll before I have to put a Gmail filter on your forwards.

by PBMax August 8, 2008

chocolate rainbow

All possible shades Black people can appear in, from Colin Powell to Wesley Snipes.

The Huxtables were a chocolate rainbow.

by PBMax November 7, 2008

Whoristorian

People who can remember almost every guy/girl their friends have hooked up with, how they met, where they were, what nickname they gave the guy/girl and why they were dubbed said nickname. Portmanteau of whore and historian.

Ellie was so adept at recalling her friends' hookups that they dubbed her a "whoristorian."

by PBMax March 13, 2009

bonadroit

Skillful and/or clever — i.e. the opposite of maladroit. Although it denotes the same characteristics as adroit, it has the added value of making its user appear even more pompous. Humorously ironical employment is possible, iff the speaker's swagger was phenomenal.

Nobody who was socially bonadroit would actually use the word "bonadroit," as it just confuses people.

by PBMax March 9, 2008