Wiki (n.) A web site in permanent Beta
Society: Society (n.) Equal parts of beggar, baker, bureaucrat, and bandit.
The beggars aspire to cash in their pockets, and prefer a state that pampers them. The bakers aspire to selling more bread, and prefer a state that creates prosperity. The bureaucrats aspire to a shorter week, and prefer a state of Law and Order. The bandits aspire to more luxuries, and prefer a state of chaos, in which they can steal more. The bureaucrats consider the beggars as a nuisance, the bakers as naive, and the bandits as masters.
- Ethnic food: Ethnic food (n.) Food eaten by relatively poorer people who are either immigrants or the descendants of slaves. Can be contrasted with "haut cuisine", which means "food eaten by expatriates". [culture fashion food]
- Ethnic: Ethnic (adj.) A label applied to a foreigner as a kind of politically correct racism. [culture]
- Economics: Economics (n.) An attempt to explain the world in large or small in terms of the physics of money. [economics]
- Copyright: Copyright (n.) An ancient form of property protection invented by medieval monks to prevent people from copying their hand-written books. In modern times, copyright is what you infringe when you use the Internet. [economics internet mind]
- Consciousness: Consciousness (n.) That part of the mind that thinks it is in charge, and convinces other minds that there is someone home, and the lights are on, while the rest of the mind gets on with the real work of doing everything. [confusion mind]
- Compromise: Compromise (n.) That satisfactory state of affairs whereby the weaker party has sensibly agreed to the demands of the stronger. The ideal compromise involves giving nothing and getting everything. [violence]
- Collective intelligence: Collective intelligence (n.) A tautological nomenclature that falsely suggests there are other kinds of intelligence. [mind society truth]
- Clickfraud: Clickfraud (v., n.) Refers both to the act of, and the person who commits the act of, dropping names and references in email, without explanation, knowing that readers will have to use Google and/or Wikipedia to understand. [confusion troll]
- Blue-egging: Blue-egging (v.) Refers to a form of obsessive behaviour wherein technically-oriented people will focus on solving unnecessarily complex technical problems for no real reason, and in favor of real work. [communications male pr0n]
- Beer: Beer (n.). A mildly alcoholic beverage invented by adult male humans in historical times when they got tired of eating moldy bread. [female male sex]
- Baldness: Baldness (adj.) The loss of hair on the aged male head, signifying advanced age and corresponding wisdom, specifically to younger males. Premature balding is a mimicry by younger, smarter males of their older peers for the sake of gaining political power earlier. [hair male marketing power]