The New Devil’s Dictionary

From The Verge, The New Devil’s Dictionary, a new economy take on Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.

lifehack (v.): To embarrass your ancestors by bragging about an “ingenious” solution to a trivial problem.

operating system (n.): A set of instructions designed to make a particular machine incompatible with other machines.

See also Greg Knauss’ The Devil’s Dictionary 2.0 from many years ago.

blogosphere, noun. An poisonous environment of methane, self-satisfaction and other hot gasses.

podcast, verb. The audible form of “blog,” in much the same way that a series of unhappy grunts and splashes is the audible form of “stomach flu.”

• Ambrose Bierce
• books
• Greg Knauss
• The Devil’s Dictionary