To perform a ritual in the direction of crashed software or hardware
that one believes to be futile but is nevertheless necessary so that
others are satisfied that an appropriate degree of effort has been
expended. "I'll wave a dead chicken over the source code, but I
really think we've run into an OS bug." Compare {voodoo programming},
{rain dance}; see also {casting the runes}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {rain dance}{SCSI voodoo}{voodoo programming}{wizard}]