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November 17, 2006
Word of the Day: Hallucinoberry
My word of the day:hallucinoberry (n.): Hallucinations experienced by frequent Blackberry users wherein they look for email on any small, electronic geegaw. Example: "I had an embarrassing hallucinoberry today where I caught myself staring at my car's keyfob for 30 seconds waiting for a list of recent emails."
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companion phenomena: Zawinski's Law
“Every program attempts to expand until it can read
mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are
replaced by ones which can.” Coined by Jamie
Zawinski (who called it the “Law of Software
Envelopment”) to express his belief that all truly
useful programs experience pressure to evolve into
toolkits and application platforms