The Poor Design Of Everyday Objects

Via Robot Wisdom comes a post on badly designed objects. The initial example is a CD case mostly because they break too easily and when they do break they tend to harm the thing they were supposed to protect.

Personally I have a small antipathy toward pans that have two small handles rather than one big long one, which makes draining pasta either awkward or an experience in burning, steaming or scalding. I'm sure there's a perfectly good reason why you can't get long handled pans in Austria and, no doubt, it'll be due to some notion of safety.

Not related, I'll claim, but Robotwisdom also points to a question overheard in New York:

Female student: I have a question -- what is the plural for 'clitoris'?
Professor: That is a great question.

The answer is given as the title of the post.