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From yesterday's Times corrections:

Several articles early this year about a Navy submarine that crashed into an undersea mountain in the Pacific Ocean on Jan. 8 misstated the precise location. It was just north of the Equator, not in the South Pacific. The error appeared on Jan. 11, 12, 15 and 23, Feb. 12 and March 13. The location, first classified, was later specified by the Navy as 7 degrees 44.7 minutes north latitude and 147 degrees 11.6 minutes east longitude.

And from today's Corrections:

An article on Jan. 25 about a guilty plea by Leonard F. Pickell Jr., former president of the James Beard Foundation, to a charge of grand larceny misstated the year he became president. (The error also appeared in articles on Dec. 14 and Dec. 16, 2004, and Sept. 20, 2004.) Mr. Pickell took office in 1995, not 1994. The error came to light during the editing of a recent article on the case.

So, if you make the same mistake twice but the very nature of that mistake is making several repetitive mistakes, to what degree is the level of fuck-uppery increased? There has to be a mathematical formula for this.

[NYT via Regret the Error]