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To: DR. MEADE who wrote (10433)	7/13/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19109

To help with the communication problems we seem to be having on our SI thread, I thought I might post some up to the minute jargon to aid us all in expressing ourselves better. Link Rot The process by which links on a web page became obsolete as the sites they're connected to change location or die. Plug-and-Play A new poster who doesn't need any filling in. "The new guy, is great. He's totally plug-and-play." World Wide Wait The real meaning of WWW. Dorito Syndrome Feelings of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome." Under Mouse Arrest Getting busted for violating an online service's rule of conduct. "Sorry I couldn't get back to you. SI put me under mouse arrest." 404 Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web message "404, URL Not Found," meaning that the document you've tried to access can't be located. "Don't bother asking him...he's 404, man." Graybar Land The place you go while you're staring at a computer that's processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). "I was in graybar land for what seemed like hours, thanks to that CAD rendering." Open-Collar Workers People who work at home or telecommute. Alpha Geek The most knowledgeable, technically-proficient person in the group. "Ask so and so, he's the alpha geek around here." Adminisphere The rarified organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions and answers that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the question. Blowing Your Buffer Losing one's train of thought. Occurs when the person you are posting to won't let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. "Damn, I just blew my buffer!" Bookmark To take note of a person for future reference (a metaphor borrowed from web browsers). "I bookmarked him after seeing his cool post on SI."