lifehack

A tool or technique that makes some aspect of one's life easier or more efficient.

Web sites now exist, where lifehacker (followers of the movement) can trade lifehacks - suggestions on how to reduce chaos and make their lives more enjoyable.

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smoking memo

A memo, letter, or e-mail message that contains irrefutable evidence of a crime. Similar to finding the "smoking gun" at a murder scene.

The investigators were elated to find smoking memos showing that Enron plotted to manipulate Western electrical prices in last year's crisis.

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Supermarionation

Supermarionation (a portmanteau of "super", "marionette" and "animation") is a puppetry technique devised in the 1960s by British production company AP Films. It was used extensively in the company's numerous Gerry and Sylvia Anderson-produced action-adventure series, the most famous of which was Thunderbirds. The term was coined by Gerry Anderson, possibly in imitation of Ray Harryhausen's stop motion technique.

Thunderbirds is a British mid-1960s television show devised by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and made by AP Films using a form of puppetry dubbed "Supermarionation".

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eco porn

A corporate advertisement that extols the company's environmental record or policies - usually by a company known to rape and pillage the environment as often as possible.

Abe: Have you seen those new commecials by the oil companies that show how good they are for the environment?

Babe: They are pure eco porn, man.

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grandiloquent

gran-DIL-uh-kwuhnt, adjective:
Lofty in style; pompous; bombastic. Full of fine words and fancy expressions - marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases.

He became more than usually grandiloquent as if to make up for the years of silence with words of gold.

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spalker

A car that follows you in the parking lot hoping to get your space. Most usually at Wal-Mart, but also happens at upper class joints.

Him: Don't look back, man - we've got a spalker behind us!

Her: Shut up and take these bags so I can get the keys out of my purse.

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Digilanti

Combining digerati expertise with vigilante initiative, the digilanti anonymously police the Internet, exposing scams and fighting spam in the interest of making the Web safe without government intervention.

Oh-oh - watch out for Dan The Digilanti! No swears while he's online.

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