[thelist] "Anonymous web-surfing should be a criminal offense"

At 20:18 09.01.00 +0100, you wrote:
>Yeah, well he isn't a real dutchman anyhow. Unlike me, who would never say
>such a thing.
>
>No seriously. This is really another case of Al Gore-itis. (That oughta
>become a word) . He basically has nothing to do with the technological
>development anyhow. One of my employers that does have something to do with
>it, being in the 6 man Royal Dutch Committee of Technology, was ranting and
>raving about it to me just now.
>
>Mike

Hi Mike,
Al Gore-itis is great, submit it to logophilia:

>
>Today's WordSpy word:
>
>dancing baloney, noun
>Web page-based animated images, Java applets, and other
>bells and whistles that are not only useless, but also
>detract from the overall quality of the page.
>
>Copyright (c) 1999, Paul McFedries,
>
>http://www.logophilia.com/WordSpy/

They have other really funny good names..
like

knowbie, noun
A knowledgeable and experienced Internet user.
Backgrounder: This word is a play on newbie, a common term
for an neophyte Internet user.

or
search jack, verb
To include in a Web page popular, but superfluous, search
terms (such as "sex" or "Lewinsky") in
order to appear in the results when people search for those
terms. (Search + hijack)

.wolf