Steven Frank posts an interesting connection between programming bugs and magic tricks, taking in Darren Brown, reverse engineering and the impossible.

Bugs thrive on the same human brain deficiencies that earn magicians their living. We are shown something that is apparently impossible -- but the reality is that we just don't have all the information.

Totally true: and like magic tricks, when you know what the problem is, bugs seem incredibly obvious.

An aside: Much like Green is Good, Steven also recently swapped out Moveable Type for a custom blogging engine more to his suiting.