Word: flub
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Every web surfer, in the course of his or her browsing, has been forced to stop and perform this weird little task: look at a picture of some wavy, ghostly, distorted letters and type them into a box. Sometimes you flub it and have to retype the letters, but otherwise you don't think about it much. That string of letters has a name; it's called a CAPTCHA. And it's a test. By correctly transcribing it, you have proved to the computer that you are a human being...
...political pros will say Mike Huckabee should have seen the storm coming. This is always how it goes for an underdog candidate who manages to rocket suddenly to the front of the presidential pack. His opponents turn nasty. His press bus fills with predators. And every minor flub shoots through the political heavens like a lightning bolt...
...friends a clip on a recorded VHS, but her mistake would undoubtedly be soon buried under the weight of real news. Not so today, when the embarrassing video is only a click away on YouTube. Eventually, Miss Teen South Carolina appeared on a talk show to apologize for her flub and answer the question in a reasonable manner. Unfortunately, the large percentage of those mocked on the Internet do not have the high profile that allows them this option. Though they may embarrass themselves or others on a global scale, they have no similar means of saving face. Perhaps Solove?...
Thanks to an administrative flub, the universal Harvard desire for better grades materialized for at least one group of students this summer...
...said the president, who was a strong proponent of international student experience during his short tenure. “We will succeed in fixing that for this year.” Summers added that he was “a little embarrassed” by the flub. But it was not immediately clear what his assurances mean for the international research centers that allocate grants to students. Melissa H. Wojciechowski, the student programs and events coordinator for the Center for International Development (CID), said yesterday that she had not heard about Summers’ remarks and could not comment this...