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Definitions by stuart@edesign.cc

(n) An urban legend.

Generally speaking, a story that is circulated extensively through either word-of mouth or (more recently) the internet, with little or no basis in fact.

Snopes.com is an excellent resource for such tales.

(Orig: Contraction of 'urban legend')
Many such stories circulated on the internet, no matter how amusing, are generally either pure urblej or hoax.
urblej by stuart@edesign.cc January 22, 2005
(v) Short form of 'screen scrape': To employ a variety of methods to steal content from a web site and represent it in another manner.

Generally seen as bad practice, but in widespread use. A bot can be used for such activity.

(from 'screen scrape', a technique used in the early days of terminal computing to read directly from terminal video memory)
Most of this content is automatically scraped from other, more legitimate sites.
scrape by stuart@edesign.cc January 22, 2005