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Jrome has added 334 words, 2 lists, 90 comments, and 18 tags.
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on like, Jrome said:
"to fall in like (for love):

"Before I discovered you could set up a "disk browser" in TextWrangler, I fell in like with TextMate. I seem to be in..." more...
on bikeshed, Jrome said:
"Along the same lines: Universal Edit Button. It appears to be mired in bikeshed syntax discussions at the moment, but the idea is simple enough:..." more...
on plurk, Jrome said:
"can we all agree that "plurk" is possibly the worst technology-related word since "blog?"
-- Lane Becker
<a..." more...
on poopsocking, Jrome said:
via twitter
"today, I learned the term "poopsocking"

lmorchand on twitter" more...
on e2cm, Jrome said:
"Alfresco has been tearing up the newswire recently with announcements and interviews related to their evolved vision that incorporates an Enterprise..." more...
on uncopyable, Jrome said:
"described attempts to make digital bits uncopyable as “trying to make water not wet.”" -..." more...
on hangi, Jrome said:
"Patrick O'Brian!" more...
on affect, Jrome said:
"The Placebo Affect*
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/02/the-placebo-aff.html" more...
on eco-mail, Jrome said:
"Click gently to eco-mail Strong Bad." http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail186.html" more...
on cheapo, Jrome said:
"...I bought this cheapo pair of random whatevers. They had RHINESTONES. I was SO STOKED. They were the best ever. Wore them all the time when..." more...
on twitter, Jrome said:
"Follow Jrome on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jrome" more...
on twitter, Jrome said:
"But we should understand that for many ideas enabled by the Internet, small is the new big." - January 3, 2008, 3:45 pm
Twitter, Firefox and Big..." more...
on small, Jrome said:
"But we should understand that for many ideas enabled by the Internet, small is the new big." -- January 3, 2008, 3:45 pm
Twitter, Firefox and Big..." more...
on beer, Jrome said:
"erin: Clay, do you want some tea?
clay: Only if it has beer in it.
--1/21/08" more...
on indicated, Jrome said:
"article I read was about aging post 60. study indicated unless effort made at absorbing new ideas, personal growth unlikely" via twitter.com" more...
on courtesy, Jrome said:
"Searched thesaurus.com for a synonym for "cock tease." Result: "Did you mean courtesy?"" via twitter.com" more...
on ochive, Jrome said:
"This is a test of our emergency redirection system. If this had been a real emergency, you would have been redirected to another page on the..." more...
on impossible, Jrome said:
"Kenny: I still haven't called or seen or spoken to her... This is the cute girl who lives below me who made me cookies.
shewholaughsloud: kenny,..." more...
on bumpf, Jrome said:
bumpf = bum fodder
"let me know where you would like all the bumpf to be sent and I'll get it over to you." more...
on mug's game, Jrome said:
"Buying eBooks in a proprietary vendor-specific format that can only be used on that vendor's device is a mug's game." - Bill McCoy,..." more...
on milter, Jrome said:
"email filter" - milter.org (sendmail.com)" more...
on re-create, Jrome said:
"One thing we've always tried to avoid in The White Stripes is all those words that I can't stand that start with 'R,' such as retro, and relic, and..." more...
on canard, Jrome said:
"For centuries, schoolboys first encountered the wisdom of the ancients in this predigested form. When Erasmus told the story of Pandora, he said..." more...
on keiretsu, Jrome said:
NYTimes
"It was funded in part by Paul Allen, the co founder of Microsoft who appears to be creating a small keiretsu of semantic Web start-ups." -..." more...
on lady, Jrome said:
another earworm
"..." more...
on earworm, Jrome said:
"I gotta say, there's another ditty that can play all day round here: Lady (Here me tonight) by MoDJo. Hear song and see video under lady" more...
on sockdologize, Jrome said:
sockdolager
"sockdolager
• noun US informal
2. an exceptional person or thing.
Oxford Dictionary of English" more...
on chugger, Jrome said:
Charity Mugger
"A canvasser for charitable donations." more...
on haptic, Jrome said:
tactile
"haptic feedback user interface -- "users can feel an immediate mild vibration when they touch icons on the display."..." more...
on coworking, Jrome said:
see co-working
"see co-working for citations." more...
on co-working, Jrome said:
co-working outside a blog entry
"Suite133 will be Washington's first manifestation of a new office model known as co-working - a sort of tightly knit but loosely affiliated office..." more...
on co-working, Jrome said:
coworking, usually in blogs
"If you look back just one year, you’ll see over 110 local efforts to get coworking spaces set up around the world. This isn’t an accident and..." more...
on ringle, Jrome said:
ringle = single + ringtone
"As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season,..." more...
on hoover, Jrome said:
cleaning up the crumbs of our social networking lifestyles
"...how does this contribute to the growing problem of “digital litter” in which people are leaving crumbs of personal information all over the..." more...
on mediatard, Jrome said:
Diary of Fake Steve Jobs
"Whoever goes first does the biggest story and gets the most space because he can brag to his editor that he's got an "exclusive." So we promise an..." more...
on snowclone, Jrome said:
"http://snowclones.org/
http://blog.oup.com/2007/08/patterns/#more-1061" more...
on spruik, Jrome said:
"Mr Gabriel said the meeting last week inspired him to go to Silicon Valley next month to spruik his technology.
-..." more...
on buyshifting, Jrome said:
"So perhaps it's time we gave this phenomena a name: buyshifting. We'll use that to refer to broadcast TV programming that you don't just watch --..." more...
on unpw, Jrome said:
"UserName PassWord smooshed." more...
on nsfw, Jrome said:
not suitable for work
"Because of the portrayal of women and men as near-perfect sexual objects in the media, movies, and porn, it's easy to forget the extent of diversity..." more...
on downloadenfreude, Jrome said:
"@mathowie: downloadenfreude?
http://twitter.com/jkottke" more...
on knitalong, Jrome said:
for example...
"http://alison.knitsmiths.us/002245.html" more...
on bukkake, Jrome said:
Merlin Mann interviews Chris Wetherell...about email overload and email on the road
"...given what you just described this, this world of email bukkake, constantly showered with new stuff." - Merlin to Chris

"It's a term from the..." more...
on reference, Jrome said:
"'Swamp thing.' The 80's called, they want their reference back." -erin" more...
on import, Jrome said:
"Well, that's not what I wanted!" more...
on concatenation, Jrome said:
"The basic idea is this: Change X number of image downloads to 1 image download by making 1 big image that contains the X images."..." more...
on acquisitioning, Jrome said:
the other half of nu school M&A
"I say, take some of that big money you're making from iTunes and shovel it into gaming. Don't go half-assed, Apple. Buy some companies up. Get with..." more...
on mergering, Jrome said:
nu school M&A
"I say, take some of that big money you're making from iTunes and shovel it into gaming. Don't go half-assed, Apple. Buy some companies up. Get with..." more...
on surgescalation, Jrome said:
From Daily Kos
"Suddenly contradicting the judgment of military commanders is a bad thing? How many times has Bush done exactly that, from the number of troops..." more...
on the list neologisms from GEL 2007, Jrome said:
"Any kind of empty, snacky junk food." By Karen Watts.
http://karenwattsbooks.com/" more...
on tone, Jrome said:
Quote from Tiff
"If you can't tone it, tan it." - TP after raging in the Sea Otter Short Track race." more...
on funtoosh, Jrome said:
"My dream kitchen is funtoosh." ks" more...
on parked, Jrome said:
"S/FJ on his blog: "courtesy of Julika Rudelius. (I recommend her work, especially the piece that is included in Brooklyn Museum's Global Feminisms..." more...
on peregrination, Jrome said:
usually used in the plural
"He started to become more aware of the peregrinations he had to make while trying to reach a destination. "I finally understood just how much roads..." more...
on mabad, Jrome said:
mea culpa
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on hab-not, Jrome said:
In post article on The Satorialist
"Now his style counsel counts. He's a stickler for the length of a cuff and partial to the Italian label Borelli. But for his audience, he bridges the..." more...
on bifurcated, Jrome said:
Marshall Kirkpatrick
"It would be a real loss to the world if the two tiers of creativity, professional and user generated, were forever bifurcated in different..." more...
on noblesse oblige, Jrome said:
"Watch Mary Poppins, it pops up in the father's opening song." more...
on crapper, Jrome said:
snow crapper - big storm (?)
"It snowed like a Norwegian Snow Crapper yetserday" - Kenny reporting on the weather from Colorado." more...
on hotmail, Jrome said:
"Lance 29 Mar 07

Are people still joining Hotmail? Friends don’t let friends do Hotmail.

37Signals SVN blog comments" more...
on multilogue, Jrome said:
"'Competition' in this sense means at least dialogue, if not multilogue, to coin a term. It is the opposite of “modern toleration,” whose..." more...
on traumatic, Jrome said:
"brain injury" more...
on erinaceous, Jrome said:
"Erin McKean's favorite word. I myself prefer "hedgehoggy." more...
on judo, Jrome said:
"judo n. Maximum efficiency, minimum effort
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/312-lingo-judo" more...
on grind house, Jrome said:
Defined in a trailer for the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino film
"GRIND HOUSE (n):

A theater playing back-to-back films exploiting sex, violence, and other extreme subject..." more...
on habernasher, Jrome said:
"habernasher (n): one who is in the habit of eating men’s clothing.
(http://rura.org/blog/2006/10/12/new-word-habernasher/)" more...
on discontentness, Jrome said:
never being fully happy with something
"Jakob
Seeing yourself as a creator is underrated
Jakob
Simplicity is underrated
Jakob
though not among readers of this blog
Jeffrey
in terms..." more...
on mabad, Jrome said:
Takin' blame for the shame.
"whooops I forgot to cc the Wylde One. mabad." recent email with peer (mid-30 year old) group buddies." more...
on sticktoitness, Jrome said:
"during West Bank Story Oscar acceptance speech" more...
on shit-heap, Jrome said:
"I'm a bridesmaid, sweet. What do I gotta do, besides party hard and wear a shit-heap dress?

e" more...
on sock puppet, Jrome said:
Puppet Wiktators
"A sock puppet is an additional username used by a Wikipedian who edits under more than one name." 02/21/07 via kottke.org from..." more...
on schadenfreude, Jrome said:
"The schadenfreude may now reign down, but that doesn't seem like a reason not to do so...." more...
on trustafarians, Jrome said:
WSJ
"The high-price trend is further exaggerated by the large concentrations of "trustafarians," or those with large amounts of inherited capital, in..." more...
on g'night, Jrome said:
"Goodnight" more...
on embiggen, Jrome said:
"Team Flickr continues to embiggen with the fabulously successful completion of Project Kakulito, or rather the arrival of Rohan Metzler...." more...
on pstn, Jrome said:
"public switched telephone network" more...
on sloosh, Jrome said:
sloosh probably from slush
"sloosh is used to refer to a lapping or sloshing sound or to describe an act of washing. It's in Webster's Third - the big unabridged." more...
on billet-doux, Jrome said:
WOD
"The first recorded use of the French word "billet doux" (literally, "sweet letter") in an English context occurs in John Dryden's 1673 play..." more...
on killer app, Jrome said:
killer app, n.
"Music was the first killer app among consumer products on the Internet, and the threat to the industry’s sales-based revenue model was apparent..." more...
on semolina, Jrome said:
"makin' pasta!" more...
on tardfluffer, Jrome said:
"e - These tardfluffers at work keep giving me random crap to do. about 20 hours ago from im via www.twitter.com" more...
on mendacious, Jrome said:
usage by Carl Bernstein, Wednesday, January 24, 2007; 3:00 PM
"Bernstein said:

"In the case George W. Bush, the American system has obviously failed -- tragically -- about which we can talk more in a minute. But..." more...
on cliff, Jrome said:
usage in an employment offering
"...commission + substantial equity earn-in after 90-day cliff." more...
on pragmatic, Jrome said:
"pragmatic - the opposite of hope. Ze Frank" more...
on jerry-built, Jrome said:
"I read that too! I meant to look it up on the spot, but didn't have a dictionary handy. Where I grew up, CNY, folks always said "jerry-rigged." I..." more...
on concatenates, Jrome said:
"4. Write a one-line piece of JavaScript code that concatenates all strings passed into a function:

function concatenate(/*any number of..." more...
on refulgent, Jrome said:
"Overseen on Twitter.com: @molly have you become twitterpated? Maybe you can reward yourself by twittering any particularly refulgent adjectives you..." more...
on struthious, Jrome said:
"Thanks to Mike G. Now that guy, he knows himself some serious vocab!" more...
on niggle, Jrome said:
citation
"I'm glad we're doing this! It's been niggling at me..." more...
on mobeep, Jrome said:
overheard at preholiday party
"mobeep is any noise a cell phone makes. Mobile beep. You can find it on M-W's open dictionary, if you dig for it. We need to get a feed from that..." more...
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