It wouldn’t be a new meme if it didn’t have a bunch of made up words dumped into the blogosphere and shaken up like a Vesper.

Socialstainable, viruseful, scrollax, it reads like the keywords in a Dr. Seuss book. Emotrics, blickroll, intercommunes (kinda like that one), it all reads like a belated April Fools’ joke on the Logic+Emotion blog.

David Armano credits his Twitter stream with delivering these bon mots to his computer. If someone does come up with a s’mores locater, all will be forgiven.

Unless the price tag is up around where Cringely said price tags for the US Census Bureau’s handheld computers headed.  Imagine that, the government being unable to deliver on a cost savings plan without spending serious bank first:

An ambitious plan to outfit thousands of census takers with handheld computers went awry after the cost of the machines zoomed from $1200 apiece (overpriced) to $8600 apiece. (Shades of $600 toilet seats.) Bureau officials and Harris Corp., the company commissioned to build the handhelds, have sprained their digits pointing fingers at who’s to blame. Luckily, if the paper and pencil scheme doesn’t work, they do have a backup plan: Using a chunk of coal and the back of a shovel. 

Don’t worry, Google will solve this problem when its Android stuff comes out, right? Someone will download the SDK and build the census app and stick it online.