A collection of things done wrong. * Windows user interface which has many modes, ranging from click-activated (rather than press-activated) menus to buried options that control behavior. * Keyboard layout which limits typing speed (some say intentionally). See BadKeyboards. * Information persistence in relational databases. See AreRdbmssDead. * Struggling to make programming as easy as possible so that the least capable thinkers can write the rules of the new economy. ''Amen. User-hostile software!'' * Internet E-mail standards that make it ridiculously easy to forge E-mail * Letting people program without learning programming ''Amen again!'' * Letting people learn to program without programming (See: EssentialDifficulty) * Not changing to the metric system when it was introduced. ''Warning: AmericanCulturalAssumption and/or BritishCulturalAssumption at work.'' * Calling the electric charge of the electron negative and the complex numbers complex. Compare also to ZombieTechnologies and OnceAndOnlyOnce.