Mystikan's definitions

googleblatted

Term used to describe the failure of a Web server due to overload as a result of being linked to from a popular website, such as Google. The archetypal example was when the University of Swinbourne's web server crashed after Google linked its logo to it in February 2004. Millions of people clicked on the link, flooding the university's servers and forcing them to shut down. The term carries the additional connotation that highly popular sites such as Google wield considerable political power in this manner.

The University of Swinbourne's fractal website went down for nearly a week when it was first googleblatted and then slashdotted two days later.

by Mystikan March 25, 2004

DDOS

Distributed Denial-Of-Service: Form of electronic attack involving multiple computers, which send repeated HTTP requests or pings to a server to load it down and render it inaccessible for a period of time. Often used by freedom fighters on the Internet, usually attacking the systems of greedy corporations who want to sacrifice YOUR freedom for their profits.

Man, the RIAA got DDOSed again last Saturday! That's the third time this month! Maybe soon we'll have those kidraping fuckers off the 'net for good!

by Mystikan February 26, 2004

psyop

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy

Person A: Man, that nutcase Martin Bryant guy shot 35 people in Tasmania!

Person B: No, he wasn't a nutcase, that was just a psyop so the government could have an excuse to ban guns.

by Mystikan April 26, 2006

gewgaw

Worthless, excessively sparkly or flashy trinket, bauble, or jewellery, often mass-produced from cheap materials. See also kitsch.

You know that locket she said was a priceless heirloom from her grandmmother? It's nothing but a dollar gewgaw from Bargain Basement!

by Mystikan July 2, 2004

clairvoyance

The ability to perceive events occurring over a timelike, as opposed to a spacelike, interval. Manifests as a perception or comprehension of past or future events in the mind of the individual employing it. See psionics.

Clairvoyance can only be acheived when the individual has gained a full understanding of the principles of psionics.

by Mystikan July 2, 2004

greed

n. 1. The defining characteristic of human nature. 2. The desire to own or control more resources than others.

Greed is not merely "I want more". Greed is "I want more than everybody else". Thus the majority of people are forcibly kept poor because if everyone had a million dollars, a loaf of bread would cost a hundred grand.

by Mystikan January 15, 2004

holistic

adj. In its entirety; any system, structure or organism considered as a whole composed of many parts. n. holistics; adv. holistically. (cf. gestalt)

A holistic approach would solve the problem rather than trying to patch it up piecemeal.

by Mystikan November 19, 2003