project looking glass

A very cool, open source desktop enviroment currently under developement by Sun Microsystems. In this environment, each window is a 3d object, making for a intuitive and powerful interface. It is designed for Linux/Solaris on the x86 platform, although a version for windows also exists. Looking Glass is still in its begining phases, and the prototype is nearly worthless, although it comes with a variety of programs to show off the environment's capabilities. Pretty impressive, and it doesn't consume very many resources. There is no word on prices, although it will almost definately be free.

Project Looking Glass is one of the many ways Sun Microsystems pwns Microsoft, and perhaps even Apple.

by drbroccoli October 13, 2005

glass

to totally destroy something with REALLY big guns and stuff (representing the ground being heated and fused into glass)

the americans glassed hiroshima in 1945

by shadow sword April 2, 2004

glass-licker

a stupid person

Why do they tint the windows on the short bus? So you don't have to watch the kids licking the glass.

by Anonymous November 5, 2003

glass bastard

Basically the best insult ever, as popularized by Dane Cook.

You glass bastard... you glass bitch.
DON'T TOUCH ME YOU DRINK.

by nuivheovhlshv98 December 29, 2005

piss broken glass

To be infected with gonorrhoea, so named by the pain the disease causes when urinating.

Cherie was very upset: she was not able to have a bit of giblet pie for several weeks because Tony had been pissing broken glass.

by Dunky Oggins November 23, 2003

glass house effect

a.k.a. turned tables.
When your job gets reversed. When your shit gets all messed up just the way you messed up someone else's shit.

The concept comes from a fortune bubble gum wrapper that reads "Man who live in glass house should not throw stone."

This concept is often ignored when people do things for someone else.

Did you hear about what happened to Alice?
She's suffering from glass house effect.
She cast the first stone and just kept throwing, then one of 'em hit her glass house and, well, you can imagine.
I heard she did it herself.

by nick May 18, 2006

Glass harmonica

A musical instrument consisting of a number of glasses partially filled with water. The glasses are filled to different levels, hence the production of different notes when the player rubs their rims with a moistened finger. The sound thus produced has a haunting, otherwordly quality. It is most famously called for in the "Mad Scene" from the opera LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR by Donizetti, although that part is now usually played by a transverse flute.

Opera fan A: What's your favourite recording of LUCIA?
Opera fan b: The one with Beverly Sills, because it uses the original scoring for glass harmonica.

by djprobed September 14, 2006