Review : Nerd's corner

It’s pointless to buy the New Hacker’s Dictionary, Third Edition, edited by
Eric Raymond (MIT Press, $16.50, ISBN 0 262 68092 0), as a reference
work: this is strictly nerd entertainment. It provides definitions for the
nerds’ deliberately obscure and often humorous jargon. Of course, your true nerd
will already have read it on the Internet at
http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon.html.