After the E-Vote

5) New personal device to tally Windows security vulnerabilities

4) Tie-down anchor for Florida mobile homes

3) Weighted and biased secure linear congruential random number generator simulator (WBSLCRNGS)

2) Alternate method for ordering fast food at the drive-through. No miscommunication, and your order will still be wrong1) Install Linux on it, then donate it to a school or library. Kids need to learn how to hack--I mean, vote

Special thanks to Robby Ambler, Dave, Wayne Eggleston, Ray Gauthier, Gary Hoke, Michael Johnson, Gregory Mamayek, David G. Miller, Jeff Murdoch, Jack Parker and Kristopher Ting for their creative submissions.

Well, those ivory tower types at the Concise Oxford English Dictionary have finally gotten around to adding a few technical terms to their vaunted compendium of all things final on the English language. But all is not well in Oxford-land.

blogosphere (n.): Informal personal Web sites and Web logs collectively

Stretch, yawn ... what's a blog again?flash mob (n.): A public gathering of complete strangers, organized over the Internet or by mobile phone, who perform a pointless act and then disperse again

Actually, this describes traffic on JibJab.com

flip chip (n.): Computing chip on one side of which all the connections are in the form of contacts that can be made simultaneously ...

Isn't this what your PDA becomes after you drop it?guestbook (n.): Computing facility on a Web site where online visitors may record their comments

Um, didn't this die a quiet and deserved death in the early 1990s?

nimrod (n.): (informal) An inept person

It took this long for "nimrod" to make it into the OED? What a bunch of ...

pop-up (n.): An unrequested browser window, especially one generated for the purpose of advertisingOh, sure, now you're just encouraging them

OK, geeks are an odd lot. There are only so many people who will openly wear black socks with shorts and sandals. But honestly, will anyone publicly don a white beanie complete with propeller just to match his or her iPod? The manufacturers think so.

"We here at GeekCulture continue to define the perfect propeller beanie. Fashionably cool and incredibly hip. Our caps aren't like those goofy joke ones you'll feel like a nerd wearing. These are the Macs of propeller caps ... quality beanies for seriously fashion-conscious geeks!"

Uh, right. Not goofy at all.0