links for 2010-03-23

Who'd have thought of applying carbon dating to wine

Some really costly mistakes.
An example: 'In 2006, an broker for Mizuho Securities in Japan wanted to sell off a share of J-Com stock. The price he wanted? ¥610,000. So he entered it into the system and then noticed something slightly off. He realized that he told the system to sell 610,000 shares for ¥1 each.'