Intelligence: The Anti-N00b's definitions

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by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b May 13, 2005

AOL

Fascist "ISP" who fortunately stopped calling themselves "number one", but still pretends that they're reinventing the Internet AND annoys people with CDs in the mail every day. On top of that, dial-up connections are MUCH slower than the already slow 56K.

Look, if I wanted AOL, I'd order a CD. I don't need you to remind me that you still haven't gone to hell.

by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b November 4, 2004

PAR

1. An idiot's name for AR (Action Replay), a cheat device made by Datel for many systems.

2. A cheat device for SNES, which people think is also made for Game Boy Advance, GCN, XBox, PS2, etc., hence number 1.

3. The worst you can do in golf without doing bad (i.e. getting a bogey).

1. OMG i u3s t3h p4r 2 ch337!!!11

2. See number 1.

3. A par is no birdie.

by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b September 21, 2004

Firefox

An awesome web browser from Mozilla. It was originally derived from Mozilla's (Seamonkey) code, but now has plenty of coding of its own. It supports W3C's standards and is quite secure. Best of all, it doesn't have support for Microsoft's security hole (read: gate for hackers to enter your computer) known as ActiveX, nor does it have most of the problems Internet Explorer has.

Mozilla will pay anyone $500 bucks for volunteering to fix security holes in its software, which is free (yes, as in speech, but also as in beer). That's pretty generous.

by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b February 26, 2005

ß

A German ligature that originally stood for 'sz', but can be transliterated as 'ss'. It is never found in Swiss German. It looks like a B, but sounds like an S. Compare to the boring language known as English, which only has the ligatures Æ and Œ, which are rarely used.

Face it, English is a boring language, and the chance of a cool ligature like ß entering it are zero to one million.

by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b February 12, 2005

Shine Get

An infamous bit of Engrish from the Japanese version of Super Mario Sunshine. It happened to make its way into the English (!!!) version of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

Wouldn't "Got Shine!" have been a better thing for the game to say?

by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b February 9, 2005

alright

1. Illiterate spelling of all right. See alwrong.

2. What someone named Al Right might tack onto his screen names or e-mail addresses.

1. Nobody knows where the braindead "word" alright came from, considering all right is a compound word with an obvious meaning, while words such as altogether and already are completely unrelated.

2. [e-mail]

by Intelligence: The Anti-N00b April 7, 2005