I was reading the [1] Business2.0 magazine today and was amused at their list of [2] “101 Dumbest Moments in Business: The year’s biggest boors, buffoons, and blunderers”.

It was a pretty long list but nevertheless a good read. 4 stood out for me:

TextTrust Typo
Dam thatt spel-cheker, part too…
TextTrust, a company that uses a combination of software and human editors to scour the Web for spelling errors, issues a press release on the most commonly misspelled words it has found “on the 16 million we pages it has spell-checked over the past year.”

NTT Hackers.
You are entering an easily hackable page. Would you like to continue?
After NTT, Japan’s leading telephone company, introduces a system called Net Cash to protect customers from identity theft while shopping online, a hacker steals the ID numbers from more than 80,000 accounts. The information is used to spend $28,000 of NTT customers’ money.

[3] Tearing Picasso a new one…
After striking a deal to sell Picasso’s “Le Reve” (”The Dream”) for a record $139 million, casino mogul Steve Wynn decides to show the masterwork to a group of visitors in his Las Vegas office. As he gestures, Wynn hits the painting with his elbow, causing what’s later reported as “a distinct ripping sound.” Wynn cancels the sale and spends $85,000 to have the painting restored.

[4] Cryonics pioneers
I knew we should’ve gone for the freezer with the lifetime guarantee…
The bodies of Raymond and Monique Martinot, pioneers of the cryonics movement — which seeks to freeze the newly dead in the hopes that future scientists will be able to revive them — thaw after a freezer malfunction. Son Rémy has them cremated.

And they are paid big bucks for…?