The Devil’s Dictionary of the Internet
From Greg Knauss' Devil's Dictionary (via Simon Willison):
- command line, noun
- The most efficient method available for accidentally deleting data.
- journalism, noun
- A form of information distribution widely acknowledge to be unethical, corrupt and amoral; also, what blogging is, God dammit!
- p2p, noun
- A class of computer network, designed to allow people to remain safely anonymous while they trade public domain documents and songs to which they own the copyright.
- Semantic Web, proper noun
- An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy.
The original Devil's Dictionary (1911) by Ambrose Bierce is also available online.