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Berzerkeley
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Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ /n./ [from `berserk', via the
name of a now-deceased record label] Humorous distortion of
`Berkeley' used esp. to refer to the practices or products of the
BSD Unix hackers. See software bloat,
Missed'em-five, Berkeley Quality Software.
Mainstream use of this term in reference to the cultural and
political peculiarities of UC Berkeley as a whole has been reported
from as far back as the 1960s.
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