I'll toss in a philips tuner head for FM where
(a) the voltage stabilation for the caricap tuning capacaitor was a raw zener diode, one of the best noise sources known to man.
(b) the ocsillator was tuned by a ferrite slug absolutely acting as a magnmetic hum field detector and amplifying it.
More recentkly. Barclays has moved its well oiled and functional stockbroking platform to a new 'smart investor' platform which is so dysfunctional that everyone is saying that the smart investors are all closing thier accounts - or would if they caoul actually access the web site - and moving their business elsewhere.
'Not even alpha' as they say.