That slowly spinning, brightly colored ball, signaling buffering that all of us here at work hate to see when we’re trying to watch a television broadcast or movie clip or whatever.

Yes, I said “watch it here at work.” Now there’s a name for it … ‘buffer rage.’ Oh for crying out loud. Now that you think of it, I did tear up a piece of paper towel into tiny shreds when I was trying to watch the Ben-Hur trailer yesterday but then I just changed the speed and it was fine.

Anyway, read more about ‘buffer rage’ here: http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0002/half-of-streaming-consumers-experience-buffer-rage-per-ineoquest/278176