Unix and Overlooked Pop Culture

Intro courtesy of The Introvert.

Video Game Easter Eggs and Glitches

• More indepth info on the Minus World in Super Mario Bros. is available here.
• In PokeMon Red and Blue, there exists a glitch referred to as MissingNo. (short for Missing Number).  By talking to the old man in Viridian City (or doing an in game trade with an NPC), then surfing the east coast of Cinnabar Island, this glitch will appear.  Other glitches allow the player to catch Mew as well.  The MissingNo. glitch does exist in Yellow, but is unstable (and may crash the game)
• Even modern PokeMon games have glitches.
• EA Games has messed up with one giant bug... requiring Internet access to play an offline game.
• THQ had serious issues with WWE '13.  Numerous sites have a comprehensive list of bugs, and the players were even blamed for at least one of them.

Bugs in the Linux Kernel and Ubuntu 13.10

With the release of Ubuntu came bugs. The first link listed is a duplicate of another bug that is marked critical, and similar problems have shown up in Arch.  No wonder Linus Torvalds has been contemplating working on stability and bug fixes for version 4.0.

Healthcare.gov

On the first day of rollout, very few people were successful in signing up.Potential security concerns also hampered the site's success.  To add insult to injury, it turns out that the company that spent three years putting it all together has not only failed before, but has also violated free and open source licenses by removing a copyright notice from the coding they used.  It looks like the UK may also be running into similar problems in the near future all in the name of keeping a campaign promise.