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(n.) - The internet grapevine of gossip, rumors, innuendo and news flashes
"How did I hear this? I heard it on the intervine somewhere! It's gone viral now, everyone's talking
about it!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, June 25, 2011
To read text on a computer screen, cellphone screen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper
"I hate reading print newspapers now. I do all my screening online."
(n.) -- a hamburger eaten in the middle of the day during work hours in order to boost energy and satisfy cravings for meat, ketchup, salt and pickles.
"If I need anything now, it's a workburger! Bring it on!"
-- overheard outside an office cubicle in Manhattan on March 23, 2011
Facts and information that are part of the information overload of every day life.
"We are so deluged with fact, fiction and fartascious stuff that perhaps we really do need a new word or a new method of sorting all the junk out from the stuff that matters to us individually."
-- Hulitoons on Museum of Hoaxes forum comment post, June 18, 2009.
(n.) - the inner creative juices that fuel a person and drive him or her to come up with new ideas
"Last month, I was in a funk, and I could hardly come up with any new ideas for my cartoon strip. But now I am back to normal and the idea juice is flowing!"
-- overheard at a watercooler in a design studio in Manhattan on January 15, 2010
Textual content that's written
and formatted to work on a computer screen or E-reader
"The problem, then, isn't that screens aren't sharp enough to read novels off of. The problem is that novels aren't screeny enough to warrant protracted, regular reading on screens. "
Cory Doctorow, in an article titled "You Do Like Reading Off a Computer Screen" -- (Locus Magazine, March 2007)
Things you knew before you knew how to know them.
"My pre-memory really plays tricks on me from time to time, but for the life of me, I really do remember some things that there is no way I could have known about!"
-- overheard at a pub in southern Taiwan on July 1, 2009