11.   Here, those who are most savvy on the battlefield earn the respect of their peers and engage in the digital equivalent of trash talk.

12.   Laybourne said he now views every idle computer monitor he comes across as the digital equivalent of a blank wall waiting to be decorated.

13.   Line blocking is the digital equivalent of the unlisted number.

14.   NetLibrary started the contest, with technology that lets people view books online for short periods of time, the digital equivalent of borrowing them from the library.

15.   The digital equivalent of Porsche sunglasses.

16.   The FTC said it would like commercial Web users to clean their own houses rather than have Congress pass the digital equivalent of cigarette warning labels.

17.   This frustrating inflexibility turns an otherwise excellent feature of Play Piano into the digital equivalent of being rapped on the knuckles with a ruler.

18.   With the slower converters, movies sometimes hiccup or exhibit the digital equivalent of dandruff.