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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 04 2012 @ 12:54 AM EDT |
I first ran across the term bogometer in one of Clifford Stoll's books and I had
assumed he had coined the term. But an Internet search shows me that it is
included in the Gutenberg Project's jargon file
(perhaps elsewhere):
:bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ /n./ A notional
instrument for measuring {bogosity}. Compare the `wankometer' described in
the {wank} entry; see also {bogus}.
and
:bogosity:
/boh-go's*-tee/ /n./ 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}. At CMU,
bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says
something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just
triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just
said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning
the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You
just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the
{microLenat}. 2. The potential field generated by a {bogon flux}; see
{quantum bogodynamics}. See also {bogon flux}, {bogon filter},
{bogus}.
So I believe bogometer is a generic term, kind of like
"windows". Uh, wait a minute ...
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