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"Service data. Service data is the data you need to give to a social networking site in order to use it. It might include your legal name, your age, and your credit card number. Disclosed data. This is what you post on your own pages: blog entries, photographs, messages, comments, and so on. Entrusted data. This is what you post on other people's pages. It's basically the same stuff as disclosed data, but the difference is that you don't have control over the data -- someone else does. Incidental data. Incidental data is data the other people post about you. Again, it's basically same same stuff as disclosed data, but the difference is that 1) you don't have control over it, and 2) you didn't create it in the first place. Behavioral data. This is data that the site collects about your habits by recording what you do and who you do it with."

"They're uncommon words that have a unique and specialized meaning in software development. They are a bit off the beaten path. Words you don't hear often, but also words that provide the thrill of discovery, that "aha" moment as you realize a certain programming concept you knew only through experimentation and intuition has a name."

a humorous neologism that refers to any extremely rare, costly, or physically impossible material needed to fulfill a given design for a given application. also used for materials that are practical and really exist, but are difficult to get.

neat tool, helpful for finding rhymes and other wordy things

Everyone has a favorite word. What's yours? (sparked my deluge of word postings to del.icio.us today, sorry!)