1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep."Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forwar...

Bureaucracy is a nightmare and it's not uncommon for stupid l...

This may be the weirdest story of British bureaucracy gone wild yet. Occasionally, disabled people must...

Long before Apple got its mojo b...  ...t has plagued the tech giant for years: bureaucracy . Eichenwald’s conversatio...  ...ew it. And they completely blew it because of the bureaucracy

Does this make sense? In order to get a "blue badge," the UK's disabled parking permit, motorists must go to a disability assessment office. In Liverpool, England, that office is on the 13th floor of a parking garage. An...

A casual look at a complex problem compiled by Ernest Ersatz, Improbable Research staff (Image credit: Flickr user Ari Moore) The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem is of recent vintage. Here are some of the earlies...

It doesn't get any sillier than this, folks: the councils of 6 boroughs in London issued parking tickets to themselves, then refused to pay the fines to themselves.One farce saw Islington Council in North London issue a...

Daniel Hafner used about half a ton of 5-ft tall w...  ...erwork one has to navigate in dealing with modern bureaucracy .Link

Summer is nearly here and school's out! Except for...  ...Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the mindboggling bureaucracy and arcane rules that is the school system:"...

This is the sort of thing that only government bureaucracy can come up with: Australian immigration authorit...