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blessay n. I wrote a Frankenstein “blessay.” The reason there’s more “essay” than “blog” in that neologism is because there was more essay than blog in my contribution. [English Arts & Literature Online] [full cite] (Dec. 7, 2007)

bliki n. What do you get if you cross a blog with a wiki? According to cyn.in (pronounced “sign in”) you get a “bliki” which has to be one of the more annoying acronyms of the year. [English Online New or Nonce] [full cite] (Nov. 10, 2006)

botnet n. The major difference between a bot in a botnet, and your common eggdrop or IRC client script bot in a channel, is that the botnet variety have been created with a trojan and, almost always, without the knowledge of the person whose computer they are running from. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2004)

botnet n. In February German magazine c’t reported how it was able to buy access to infected machines—commonly described in the parlance of spammers as “BotNets"—from virus writers. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2004)

botnet n. There are many files available from the bots on the botnet which can be reached even if the bot is on another network. [English Online Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2004)

brainbump n. Other exam answer keys are available for everything from school bus driver to medical technician, and for a range of military skills. The sites are called “brainbumps” in Internet jargon. [English Online] [full cite] (Dec. 30, 2007)

bullgeschichte n. “Bullgeschichte” is the methodological tool best exemplified by wikipediasts and dilettantes. The method entails taking a little bit of information, usually gained from a scant reading or scanning of a popular magazine like Time or People or Biblical Archaeology Review and then imagining that one is armed with the latest and most relevant information on the subject. Armed with that information, the practitioner of Bullgeschichte then writes a note or a posting to a discussion list or a weblog and insists in spite of any evidence to the contrary that they are alone right and no one else can be. [English Online Religion New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 2, 2007)

bullshot n. Faked, enhanced, or otherwise augmented screenshots are commonly called “bullshots.” Their intent is to make a game look more appealing than it actually is, and their occurrence has largely existed since video games were first commercialized. So are bullshots misleading or just good marketing? [English Entertainment Marketing Online Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 20, 2008)

button masher n. “Button masher” is often a derogatory term for fighting games. This game, however, is a button masher with smarts, and prides itself in being so. [English Entertainment Online Technology] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2006)

calor licitantis n. Confused, the team tried a larger sample—this time observing thousands of iPod auctions. In that case, 45 to 50% of eBay auctions exceeded the “buy it now” price, she says. Expanding the pool again, they found that the quirk affects expensive and cheap items, men’s cologne and women’s perfume, and books by liberal Sen. Barack Obama and by conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly. The Romans had a term for this auction-house “curse,” Malmendier says, “They called it calor licitantis—bidder’s heat.” [Latin Online] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2007)

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