Word: glitch
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According to Monsky, the computer system running the competition had suffered a timing glitch when recording the disputed game. It appeared that the mainframe had not registered the correct points for the hand, so the two teams traded a point: Dartmouth 57, Harvard...
...Scott Herren’s music is how he always gets things wrong. Not purposely irreverent or consciously malfunctioning, his work simply sounds half-executed with an air of open experimentation. Under his Prefuse 73 alias, he chops Hip-Hop beats in a manner more akin to Mille Plateaux glitch artists like Farben and Vladislav Delay than to DJ Premier. But in doing so, he cuts off their potential to groove, making his compositions as involuted and intricate as the best of Warp’s back catalogue...
Indeed, first-set glitch aside, Li was dominant when he rushed the net, and his deep, powerful groundstrokes set up such approaches quite effectively. It was only when Li became hesitant—as he did when the score drew even—that he lost this aggressiveness...
...Institute in Seattle, a husband and wife sit in sensor-loaded chairs with wires strapped across their chests, taped to their fingertips, clipped to their earlobes. The wires are connected to an array of computerized measuring devices that will track physiological data about them. As the couple discuss a glitch in their marriage, a technician in the next room monitors the data: heart rate, sweaty palms, the speed of blood flow. Another technician watches them on a video screen, recording facial expressions, calibrating emotional vital signs of couples during actual marital conflict. Survivor, Fear Factor--that's kid stuff. This...
...created by humans. New Yorkers and the inhabitants of a whole swath of North America spent a delirious, humid night in the complete dark in August, and for hours no one had a clue why the power grid had crashed or how on earth to fix it. The glitch that guaranteed that the space shuttle Columbia would disintegrate on re-entry occurred at lift-off, and none of the rocket scientists at NASA saw it coming. A sizable proportion of military deaths in Iraq were caused not even by enemy combat but by accident, human error, friendly fire...