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The annoying tendency of Windows applications to clutter up your desktop, quicklaunch bar, and start menu with multiple shortcuts to their software without bothering to ask permission first, as if you're only too happy to be burdened the convenience of having to click on your mouse one or two fewer times to run the software. Also applies to shortcuts to third-party programs bundled with the installed software, usually unasked-for and often unwanted.
by MatthiasFW February 11, 2008
Get the desktop graffitimug. A portmanteau of hype and typecast, hypecasting is where a company adopts a popular song as a theme song for its commercials, running them for so long a period of time or so frequently that whenever one hears the song, one cannot help but think of the company who co-opted it. Often the corporation will take a specific line of the song and focus on that section of the song to the exclusion of the rest of its lyrics, effectively "typecasting" the song as the theme song of said company, overruling the song's original message.
by MatthiasFW July 29, 2007
Get the hypecastmug. A portmanteau of correct and rectify.
To correctify something means to obsessively nitpick over details which in the pointy-headed purist's mind are so torturously annoying that he can't help but speak up about it. The significance of such details, however, is pure truthiness.
A behavior commonly associated with period nazis in the SCA and other medieval-recreation societies and LARPs.
To correctify something means to obsessively nitpick over details which in the pointy-headed purist's mind are so torturously annoying that he can't help but speak up about it. The significance of such details, however, is pure truthiness.
A behavior commonly associated with period nazis in the SCA and other medieval-recreation societies and LARPs.
Madus as they are used in the Amtgard LARP are hardly recognizable as "actual" madus, yet you'll often see players correctifying each other about what "real" madus should look like.
by MatthiasFW April 22, 2008
Get the correctifymug. A portmanteau of demagogue and blogger, it is a person who uses a blog as a soapbox from which to preach to the unwashed masses and the rest of the world.
Compare to pedablogger, who uses their blog to educate rather than to orate.
Compare to pedablogger, who uses their blog to educate rather than to orate.
by MatthiasFW July 7, 2007
Get the demabloggermug. A hypothetical propulsion technology that allows a vehicle to teleport instantaneously via an artificially-created wormhole.
by MatthiasFW September 26, 2008
Get the jump drivemug. A method of semi-permanently giving something away to someone while reserving your right to ask for it back later if you change your mind.
I gave my first mp3 player to Jim on extended loan, but since my new mp3 player got stolen, I was able to ask for the old one back.
by MatthiasFW August 6, 2007
Get the extended loanmug. The voiced, gutteral grunt made by someone (typically a preteen child) used to express indignation, or frustration.
Whenever Christie's 11-year-old daughter doesn't get her way, she immediately emo grunts and stomps her foot, as though that's gonna change Christie's decision one bit. Well, sometimes it does.
by MatthiasFW January 18, 2009
Get the Emo gruntmug.