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  • Has anyone "kluged" a power-up method for the beige G3 that bypasses the need for the G3 keyboard?

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • Eventually, I discovered that the system was a porridge of kluged narratives and borrowed rites, and discriminatory legacies were coded into core doctrines.

    Hacking Our Social Systems. | Mind on Fire 2009

  • The awkward way in which selenocysteine is kluged into the genetic code (which is not unique to Tetrahymena; we do it too), sharing a termination codon instead of having one to itself seems like a good example of a molecular "panda's thumb," reflecting the inherent difficulty of a late addition to the frozen accident of the genetic code.

    Another Protozoan and Front-Loading 2006

  • So it will need to be consistent not with merely the ribosome and the bacterial flagella, but also the octopus's eye, the panda's thumb, and the jerry-rigged way that selenocysteine is kluged into the genetic code.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • But laptop and cell phone batteries now out-perform these batteries and cost less, so this company (AC Propulsion) has essentially kluged together a boat-load of consumer Li-Ion batteries to produce an EV with a range of 300 miles!

    Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004

  • It's not that I don't want a smartphone or similar - I actually think one would be a significantly useful tool that would fill the gap between phone and PDA - it's more that I've felt that hadset manufacturers were concentrating on voice services, and that the original GSM smartphones like Ericsson's R520 were terrible hacks that kluged PDA functionality onto voice devices with little consideration for data.

    Neat tech toys: the Orange SPV sbisson 2002

  • I thought the native UI of Revit looked unfinished, kluged and ancient.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • I thought the native UI of Revit looked unfinished, kluged and ancient.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • I thought the native UI of Revit looked unfinished, kluged and ancient.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

  • I thought the native UI of Revit looked unfinished, kluged and ancient.

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2010

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