by Lowell Thing,
Editor
This past week, some of our IT words escaped and ran amok before we could finally rein them in again. But not before they did some damage and garnered these headlines in our local "CyberBizarre Tabloid." This morning, supermarket shoppers were startled to read:
"CHANNEL" CAN'T DECIDE ITS OWN MEANING!
SHORT TERM GETS LONG TERM IN CITY JAIL!
"MAN" BYTES ENTIRE CITY!
SCIENTIST CALLS GOOGOL SOMETHING UNPRINTABLE!
HTML ATTRIBUTE DEPRECATED!
DEVELOPER EATS DOG-FOOD! GUI!
HYPHENS STOLEN FROM E-WORDS; STOCK MARKET DOWN!
SMILEYS ELECT =:O PRESIDENT!
HUMPTY DUMPTY FALLS OFF FIREWALL!
HACKER INMATE'S MOM BAKES FLAT FILE INTO PI
HEAVYWEIGHT THREAD WINS WORLD TITLE!
MOUSE FALLS INTO HONEY POT; TURNS INTO MOLE!
COMPUTER ARRESTED FOR ILLEGAL OPERATION!
BEZIER CURVE GOES STRAIGHT; WINS CITIZEN AWARD!
IRRATIONAL NUMBER BECOMES REASONABLE!
LEMNISCATES COMMIT MASS SUICIDE IN BERING SEA!...
Well, you can see some damage was done, but a few renegade words are still out there and we wonder if you can figure out what tomorrow's headlines will bring. Please send us your own headline based on any whatis.com term or terms and we'll send a TechTarget cap (one size fits all) to the winning entry. The deadline is next Monday, December 2. We'd also like to tell readers your name and occupation so please let us know that, too. (Thank you.)
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