"This file contains random-looking data and we suspect it to contain encrypted data with direct relevance to an ongoing National Security investigation. Please provide the decryption keys for the file '/dev/urandom' immediately or face 5 years in jail!"

Although, perhaps someone could write a tool that replaces /dev/random with some kind of encrypted device volume? Interesting...

No-one is gonna read this far down, but what the hell :)

The Return To Zork one might not be a glitch so much as just evil designers, but if you made a slight mistake on the FIRST SCREEN (cut instead of dig the plant) then you're blocked from completion of the game, but you don't find out until much (much) later!

Dark Age of Camelot is a still-breathing MMO that got roundly whooped by WoW despite having probably the best PvP of any MMO to date. The bane of this game was the sheer number and scale of Line-Of-Sight and NPC-pathing problems. It made certain situations in the game almost unplayable.

There were also a lot of questionable decisions made by the design team that led to some interesting game dynamics. Anyone who's played will remember the MoC3/RR5 Sorc combo, the Large Shield blockrate against Dual-Wield and various other fun bits and pieces.

Still loved that game though...

(I know it's bad form to reply to my own post, but I don't care)

How about this as a foolproof electronic voting booth system;

For each candidate, have a lifesize cardboard cutout of them, complete with a sign above their head with their name and political party clearly written. Place in front of each cutout a perspex screen (to stop vandalism), a Big Red Button about 3ft from the floor and a pressure pad on the floor itself. When someone is positioned directly in front of a candidate image AND the Big Red Button is pressed, a vote is cast.

At this point, a large screen should display the name of the candidate you just voted for and their party. If you have selected incorrectly, you have 10 seconds to press the Big Red Button which will then retract your vote. At this point, you can vote again.

This would work well for physically-disabled voters, deaf voters and also partially-sighted voters. Blind voters couldn't use a Voting Machine anyway, so it's no worse than a touchscreen.

It has verification and ease of use on its side (and it would add some much needed fun to the proceedings!).

There is no way that I can think of to verify a vote for a person afterwards that would not be open to abuse.