A general term for the place where useless bits go. UnixOs BitBucket: /dev/null Modern Unix variants grind up the bits and recycle them through: /dev/random To ensure a plentiful supply of RandomNumbers, one should keep one's BitBucket full by regularly tossing old documents into DevNull. ---- Also used to refer something (an object, file, etc) as raw data (a sequence of bits/bytes), rather than as a structured (and usually opaque) entity. ---- It also a a web-based hosting service for projects that use the MercurialVersionControl system: http://bitbucket.org/ ''It now also offers GitVersionControl. It differs from GitHub in allowing free private repositories.'' ---- Also of interest, http://www.random.org/quota/. -- AllanGoff