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| + | '''Korobushka'''<br /> | ||
| + | Traditional Russian song used as a musical track on Tetris. Pynchon also referenced Tetris in ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_119-148#Page_123] | ||
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| + | '''the li'l goombas of Web design'''<br /> | ||
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In computing, the '''bit bucket''' is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket Wikipedia entry] | In computing, the '''bit bucket''' is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_bucket Wikipedia entry] | ||
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| + | '''Dr. Zizmor'''<br /> | ||
| + | A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years. | ||
Revision as of 15:42, 17 September 2013
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Korobushka
Traditional Russian song used as a musical track on Tetris. Pynchon also referenced Tetris in Against the Day [1]
Page 45
the li'l goombas of Web design
a reference to Super Mario Bros.
Fabian's Bit Bucket
In computing, the bit bucket is jargon for where lost computerized data has gone, by any means; any data which does not end up where it is supposed to, being lost in transmission, a computer crash, or the like, is said to have gone to the bit bucket — that mysterious place on a computer where lost documents go, as in: "What happened to that important spreadsheet that I was just editing?" OR "Oh, it went into the bit bucket." Wikipedia entry
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Dr. Zizmor
A physician whose subway ads were all over the NYC subway for 30 years.
