In engineering, a kludge is a workaround using unrelated parts cobbled together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » 33%: Cutting Into The Base] Reference

Really the term "kludge" comes to mind with Provisioning Services.    From Wordnik.com.  [BrianMadden.com] Reference

No one at pacbell.net had it and so, I was kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

So our brains we'll wrack for a kludge and a hack.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grinding Out a Ph.D] Reference

Or now, if you like watching me kludge around with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Purple… I Love Purple] Reference

Ok kludge , nice thing give the url of your pp sites ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creative Exercises] Reference

The points kludge was the only way I could get 365 a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 New Year's Resolution] Reference

Filed under: Science | Tagged: kludge | Leave a Comment ».    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 September « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference

The vertebrate eye does very well indeed, but it is a kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denton vs Squid; the eye as suboptimal design. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

What we have here is a political kludge of the murkiest order.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Charged Up! (on Politics)] Reference

Nope, gotta' invent a kludge to hold on to the falsified model.    From Wordnik.com.  [Massive Repeated Explosions Halted Star Formation in Early Universe | Universe Today] Reference

This There, I Fixed It is the best kludge I've seen in a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFies.org: December 2009 Archives] Reference

"He must've seen me writing my kludge and thought I was online.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgetfulness] Reference

That still seems like a kludge which could cause problems though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus] Reference

A kludge or kluge is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » 33%: Cutting Into The Base] Reference

But that's all I think I can kludge together, y'know, this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odin's Day] Reference

I distinctly remember someone kludge saying to his wife last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 Things Not To Do With Your Computer] Reference

Anon 2:35, that is a kludge I made for mounting a camera on the bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bike Setups: Low Brows, High Headtubes] Reference

So I would say that Ares I is a kludge of a kludge. richard schumacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ares Troubles Mount - NASA Watch] Reference

Giving women no-fault as a lever to get a fair settlement is a kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Defense Of No-Fault Divorce] Reference

It also makes us stand in awe of the elegant kludge, as stevaroni says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upcoming ID meeting at Cold Spring Harbor - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Or, to use a term out of the early days ‘an elegant hack’ non-kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Meet Mercenary Mouthpiece Mike McCurry, Enemy of Internet Freedom] Reference

There is a special distribution of WP and phpBB, but seemed like a bit of a kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [13.2 Ways Forums Can Make Your Life Better] Reference

That little kludge stood in the gap for about 10 days until the replacement arrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference

Perl may be a kludge, but it makes your programs short, and you have to respect that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arc at 3 Weeks] Reference

It looks like you can kludge your way through with RSS, but not easily or conveniently.    From Wordnik.com.  [N810 Followup] Reference

People have developed all sorts of way to try to improve PDFs but they are all a kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sony unveils 3rd generation eBook Reader, the touchscreen PRS-700 « Boy Genius Report] Reference

But I still think that they are too wonkish, and even Jenkins refers to the "HSA kludge.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elephants in the Big Tent, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Instead he sat down at a workstation and wrote a kludge—a down-and-dirty software program.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blue Nowhere] Reference

Keeping track of our health information is a complicated kludge just begging to be digitized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Health Geeks] Reference

Instead he sat down at a workstation and wrote a kludge -- a down-and-dirty software program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forgetfulness] Reference

Mike: Quite so, and of course the definition of semiprozine has always been a bit of a kludge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » Nebulas Inclusive – Official] Reference

Indeed, some engineers called the plan "a kludge," computer jargon for any ill-conceived thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying Upside Down] Reference

Nay, in actuality the Lorentz transformation was partially inspired as a kludge to Aether ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?] Reference

JSON is not a kludge, it is basically JavaScript literal object notation – go do some reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripting News for 12/20/2006 « Scripting News Annex] Reference