Schmidt's Law

May 19, 2011
If you mess with a thing long enough, it'll break.

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Copier from your scanner & printer:
http://icopy.sourceforge.net/
 

Law of the Perversity of Nature

May 18, 2011
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.

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Temporary e-mail forwards to your real e-mail:
http://www.trashmail.net/
 

Gallois' Revelation

May 17, 2011
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled, and no one dares to criticize it.

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Universal spell check for Windows:
http://www.humanized.com/enso/words/
 

Shaw's Principle

May 16, 2011
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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Free conferencing with lots of features:
http://www.anymeeting.com/
 

Stalin's funeral

May 14, 2011
Stalin’s funeral involved a communist plot.

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Find the buried truth:
http://www.findagrave.com/
 

Finagle's Fourth Law

May 14, 2011
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.

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Fashionable clocks for your web pages:
http://www.csalim.com/
 

Finagle's Third Law Corollary #2

May 13, 2011
Everyone who stops by with unsought advice will see your mistake immediately.

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Help Google label images:
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
 

Finagle's Third Law Corollary #1

May 12, 2011
No one whom you ask for help will see your mistake.

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Mac Dock for Windows:
http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/
 

Finagle's Third Law

May 11, 2011
In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.

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Extra use for your Windows mouse wheel:
http://antibody-software.com/web/software
 

Finagle's Second Law

May 10, 2011
No matter what the experiment's result, there will always be someone eager to: (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it supports his own pet theory.

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Supercharge your Windows' mouse wheel:
/software/wizmouse-makes-your-mouse-wheel-work-on-the-window-under-the-mouse/
 

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