How is it possible to patent something as vague as this? And why stop there? Let's patent "a method to provide machines with set of instructions which will cause them to behave in a predictable manner", if we add some gibberish it should actually work.

[quote user="savar"]The Ark of The Covenant (as somebody else already mentioned) is clearly the WTF here. It's blessed by God and it kills a bunch of asshole Nazis*. That is the opposite of evil.[/quote] That said, the way it killed them was quite evil.

Hmm, I have a project to integrate a B2B web app. I was going to send the other business an XML document. My initial design was way too simple. This will make the other web developer who has to write the parser cry.