The college health system is a crazy quilt of private coverage and student plans, with few rules governing how schools charge for coverage or on-campus services.
Europe's patent system is also in a mess in another regard: thequilt of national patent offices and languages means that the cost of obtaining a patent for the entire European Union is too high, a burden in particular on smaller firms and individual inventors.
If Metro can be criticized for anything, it is that it is so mobile-centric that the large screen expression in Windows 8 becomes a crazy quilt of pulsing colored boxes.