ballyhoo, purveyor, geek, botnet, purvey, junk-food,

  More Fizzle Than Sizzle on Amazon's Prime Day

By HIROKO TABUCHI

The much-ballyhooed 20th anniversary discount event is awash in complaints of lackluster products and interminable waiting.

The wait is almost over. On October 24th Twitter announced a proposed price range of $17 to $20 a share for its much-ballyhooed initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, which looks set to take place in early November. If the company were to go public at the top end of its range, this would imply a valuation of around $11 billion for Twitter and would raise around $1.6 billion for the firm and its current owners http://econ.st/1d62KBO

 

  We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the shows inside.

ballyhoo

Blatant or sensational promotion.
Synonyms:	hoopla, hype, plug
Usage:	The ballyhoo that accompanied Kyle's campaign for student council was ultimately unnecessary, as no one chose to run against him.

 

In Initiative, Disney to Restrict Junk-Food Ads

By BROOKS BARNES

The company plans to announce that all products advertised on its radio stations, television channels and Web sites must comply with new nutritional standards. 

Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage is “like being able to Google political history using the ‘I Feel Lucky’ button every time,” said Rachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC host.
Ed Morrissey, a senior correspondent for the conservative blog Hot Air (hotair.com), said, “The geek in me wants to find an excuse to start digging.”


How Team of Geeks Cracked Spy Trade

From a Silicon Valley office, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.

According to security service providers including the Atlanta-based SecureWorks, some of the largest collections of hacked PCs, known as robot networks or "botnets," may have had their master control servers hosted at McColo. McColo officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Botnets typically are rented out to junk e-mail purveyors. The spammers then sign in remotely to control servers and use them to send billions of e-mails a day, touting everything from knock-off pharmaceuticals and designer goods to pornography and get-rich-quick scams.





Swedish Court Tailors Bank on Tradition

In Sweden, if you deliver high quality products for the Royal Family, you
can apply for the title of "Royal Purveyor to the Court".

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evzcfmI44va89pI6



Conde Nast may be best known as a purveyor of high-fashion, high-gloss magazines, but its spate of deal-making last week shows it knows how to build a durable geek base around its Wired property, according to The New York Times's David Carr.
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junk

[名][U]1 （金属・紙・ぼろなどの）廃品, がらくた, くず.2 中古品, 骨董品.3 ((俗))麻薬；ヘロイン.4 ((話))＝junk food.━━[動](他)…を廃品として捨てる a...

junk food

[U]((略式))ジャンクフード：脂肪, 糖分を多く含み体によくない食品.

geek (gēk) Slang.n.
A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.


━━ n. 〔米俗〕 （生きたニワトリなどの首を食いちぎる）異常な見世物師; 〔米俗〕 変態; 【コンピュータ】パソコンおたく （computer geek）.
tr.v., geeked, -ing, geeks.
To excite emotionally: I'm geeked about that new video game.

[Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German.]

geeky geek'y adj.

Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with contemporary student and computer slang, as in computer geek. In fact, geek is first attested in 1876 with the meaning “fool,” and it later also came to mean “a performer engaging in bizarre acts like biting the head off a live chicken.” Perhaps the use of geek to describe a circus sideshow has contributed to its current popularity. The circus was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries than it is now, and large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various unexpected ways. Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the shows inside. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.

purvey Show phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL to provide goods or services as a business, or to provide information:
This company has purveyed clothing to the armed forces for generations.
The prime minister's speech was intended to purvey a message of optimism.

jottings匆匆筆記 非”隨筆”

purvey verb [T] FORMAL
to provide goods or services as a business, or to provide information:
This company has purveyed clothing to the armed forces for generations.
The prime minister's speech was intended to purvey a message of optimism.
purveyor noun [C] [plural] FORMAL
a business which provides goods or services:
purveyors of seafood
a purveyor of leather goodsUK Purveyors of Jams and Marmalades to Her Majesty the Queen

purveyor of truth

purveyor Show phonetics noun [C usually plural] FORMAL
a business which provides goods or services:
purveyors of seafooda
purveyor of leather goods
UK Purveyors of Jams and Marmalades to Her Majesty the Queen