Loadmaster's definitions

transclude

To include part or all of a digital document into one or more other documents by reference.

Both the online article about food production and the article about natural resources transclude the same chart depicting population growth.

by Loadmaster April 1, 2015

iJunk

Digital communication and entertainment devices, including smartphones, MP3 players, etc. Such devices allow people to waste enormous amounts of time engaging in social media, listening to music, watching videos, and so forth.

My daughter spends about ten hours a day on her iJunk, mostly texting with her friends; she's an iJunkie.

by Loadmaster August 9, 2015

stufimal

Short for "stuffed animal", a favorite accouterment of Generation X.

Hang on, little Bobby's got to get his favorite stufimal before we can leave.

by Loadmaster July 22, 2016

ninja codon

1. Alias or fake name used to disguise a person's real identity.

2. A word or phrase appearing within a larger text that does not make sense or has no discernible meaning.

1. That trash talking blogger won't reveal anything about himself except his ninja codon.

2. His email was so full of ninja codons that is was little more than gibberish.

by Loadmaster March 27, 2011

pareidolia

Misperception of an ambiguous stimulus as something specific.

Seeing faces in clouds is an example of pareidolia.

by Loadmaster July 21, 2004

whom

What an educated owl says.

An owl says "Who".
An educated owl says "Whom".

by Loadmaster July 29, 2004

filegate

A scandal during the early Clinton administration, in which executive staff obtained the FBI files of hundreds of Republicans and were accused of using them for nefarious political ends.

The "-gate" suffix comes from the infamous Whitehouse scandal in which the Nixon re-election campaign obtained Democratic campaign records by breaking into the Watergate apartments.

Hillary was the mastermind behind the whole filegate scandal.

by Loadmaster October 1, 2004