Hopper did not find the bug. Some techs working on the machine did. Also, remember that the term "bug" had been in use for over sixty years before the Mark I bug. Pretty please correct the article text; this erroneous story has been circulating for decades.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug.

As noted by another commenter, Hollerith's work was also very important; IBM purchased his company, and punched card unit-record tabulating equipment evolved into the basis of modern computer industry hardware. Sales of these machines to the Germans in the 1930s also helped them track the people they wanted to round up and kill.

The nuclear-powered icebreaker Yamal has never been the world's only nuke icebreaker; it's one of six Arktika class ships, though several of them are inactive. It's pretty dumb to say "none compare" when the previous four have pretty much the same design. The last Arktika class ship built (completed in 2006 after a 13-year stall for funding) is even bigger.

Besides that, even the Arktikas aren't the only nuke icebreakers; there are also two Russian river icebreakers, and a monster nuke-powered cargo ship with an icebreaking bow.

And I'm not sure the Arctic is the world's largest piece of ice; I'd guess the Antarctic sheet is bigger.

Actually, the tape probably allowed better peripheral vision than a bag would have. Of course that still doesn't exactly make him a criminal mastermind.

Still, I think the
resume dropping bank robber should be more embarrassed.

Congrats Mr Steele; I'm glad things turned out all right.