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• dev/null /dev-nuhl/ n. [from the Unix null device, used as a data sink] A notional `black hole' in any information space being discussed, used, or referred to.
  A controversial posting, for example, might end "Kudos to rasputin@kremlin....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
• /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null
• Flamage and Commercialism > /dev/null