Blue Glue n.
[IBM] IBM's SNA (Systems Network Architecture), an incredibly
losing and bletcherous communications protocol widely
favored at commercial shops that don't know any better. The
official IBM definition is "that which binds blue boxes
together." See fear and
loathing. It may not be irrelevant that Blue Glue is the
trade name of a 3M product that is commonly used to hold down the
carpet squares to the removable panel floors common in dinosaur pens. A correspondent at
U. Minn. reports that the CS department there has about 80
bottles of the stuff hanging about, so they often refer to any
messy work to be done as `using the blue glue'.
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blue goo n.
Term for `police' nanobots
intended to prevent gray goo,
denature hazardous waste, destroy pollution, put ozone back into
the stratosphere, prevent halitosis, and promote truth, justice,
and the American way, etc. The term `Blue Goo' can be found in
Dr. Seuss's "Fox In Socks" to refer to a substance much like
bubblegum. `Would you like to chew blue goo, sir?'. See nanotechnology.
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Blue Screen of Death n.
[common] This term is closely related to the older Black Screen of Death but
much more common (many non-hackers have picked it up). Due to the
extreme fragility and bugginess of Microsoft Windows misbehaving
applications can readily crash the OS (and the OS sometimes
crashes itself spontaneously). The Blue Screen of Death,
sometimes decorated with hex error codes, is what you get when
this happens. (Commonly abbreviated BSOD.)
The following entry from the Salon
Haiku Contest, seems to have predated popular use of the
term:
Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death
No one hears your screams.