The tray of a CD-ROM drive, or by extension the CD driveitself. So called because of a common tech support legend aboutthe idiot who called to complain that the cup holder on hiscomputer broke. A joke program was once distributed around thenet called "cupholder.exe", which when run simply extended the CDdrive tray. The humor of this was of course lost on people whosedrive had a slot or a caddy instead.
The veneration of Eris, a.k.a.Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism waspopularized by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's novel"Illuminatus!" as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen forWesterners -- it should on no account be taken seriously but isfar more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, theFifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from "Principia Discordia":"A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads."Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracytheory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between theanarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent,authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See Religion in Appendix B, Church of the SubGenius,and ha ha onlyserious.
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