Prof. Huckle's Collection of Disasterous Software Bugs and Glitches, with excellent links to reports and supplementary information. Crashing probes, exploding rockets, diverted missiles, incorrectly tallied elections, long distance phone service outages, and many more, all because someone forgot to carry a one, put a dot instead of a comma, or used pounds when they should have used kilograms.
May 20, 2002