Errata

Wired News: Loser Delivers Laughs: "In the struggle between humanity and technology, humanity is clearly getting its ass kicked.
That is the conclusion one comes to after reading Rick Broadhead's Dear Valued Customer, You Are a Loser ($10, Andrews McMeel Publishing), a hilarious look at the maddening tendency for technology to create as many problems as it solves.

Published in May with little fanfare, the 315-page paperback is a compilation of more than 100 true stories of technological blunder and misfortune. Some of the stories are bizarre, some are pathetic -- but all are highly entertaining.

Take, for instance, the case of the Ukrainian businessman who put 50 new pagers -- a gift for his employees -- in the back seat of his car and then promptly crashed into a lamppost when they all began beeping at the same time. The culprit? A welcome message sent by the pager company to each of the pagers.

Then there's the story of the German couple who carefully followed the driving directions given by their car's satellite navigation system -- right up until it guided them into a river."