"One minute Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, " it said.

BBC: Christian Bale in The Dark Knight

Worse, the bug disabled essential instructions that tell the PC how to start-up, effectively reducing machines to an unusable empty shell.

CNN: FROM THE WEB

Eduardo drove at the heart of the England defence and played a cute pass into the area for Olic, the Hamburg striker coolly dribbling round a shell-shocked Carson and rolling into an empty net.

BBC: England 2-3 Croatia