The CueCat Is Back: "In 2000, the CueCat scanner became a symbol of tech-industry cluelessness. Distributed to millions of magazine subscribers, the scanner redirected readers to advertisers' web pages after they scanned a bar code printed in the magazine. But few people used it, and the CueCat became the target of almost universal derision. Now it's back—in German mobile phones." —Wired News

Lame 2.0.