The Laws of the Internet

#86: The amount of interest a newly discovered website will hold for you is inversely proportional to the amount of time you have free to read it.

#87: The more interesting the site, the greater the chances that you’ll forget to bookmark it before closing your broweser window.

#9: Snopes is your friend. Use it dammit.

#101: Reading the SDMB at the office is not conducive to getting any work done and having a life at the weekend.

34a. The third thing a fool on the Internet will do is help one of those nice guys from Nigeria with his money problems.

#177: The likelihood of a porn popup at work is in direct proportion to the importance of the person standing behind you.

#101a: Grad school and the SDMB do not go hand in hand, despite what your brain would have you think.

Hey, is that a StrongBad quote for your sig? He’s the greatest thing since instant melonade!

Sure they do! I mean, with the help of the SDMB, you can enjoy grad school for several more years!

Yes it is, and yes HE is. Good catch.

#9A No matter how many times you send your mom/girlfriend/co-worker to Snopes, they will still keep sending you the boycott Pepsi e-mail.

9b) Not only that, but they will resent you for pointing out that their E-Rumor is a crock.

9c) If Snopes doesn’t have it, try truthorfiction.com

#121- *The one really cool graphic you want to lift from a web site will be protected from right-clicking it * (of course a press of the PrintScreen key and some cropping will usually bypass this problem).

TELL me about it. You’d think they’d remember the website after visiting it 39804152 times.

#40: No matter how obvious and preposterous the tongue-in-cheek statement is, somebody will take it seriously and start in on you over it.

Yeah, until your funding runs out, and you realise you had to publish that thesis six months ago, and now you really are a poor, penniless, struggling grad student. :slight_smile:

#111.04401.002b * It will take the same time during downloading to go from 0 to 99% as it will going from 99% to 100% - Also cross reference with Windows rule # 111.02341.001a any windows process that uses a ‘percent done’ indicator will go from 0 to the second to last bar in the same time as it goes from the 2nd to last bar to the last bar.*

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Rule 22: Chances are, someone has already had the same or a very similar cool idea as you for a posting to a messageboard, and if you don’t read the whole thread, you are in danger of looking like a lame copycat. :slight_smile:

#54: Never tell your boss any online name or handle you have ever used. Especially if he knows how to google.

#42: Whenever any question comes up that can in any way reference the meaning of life/the universe/everything, someone will bring up Douglas Adams. Save us the trouble and don’t be that person.

#523: Unless you actually receive an infected file from someone, don’t bother forwarding virus warnings. People who know what they’re doing will check Norton/McAfee/etc regularly anyway, and those who don’t won’t listen (or can’t do anything about it). Besides, 99 times out of 100, it’s a hoax warning.

#7394: There are a lot of people on the Internet. The vast majority of them have different opinions than you. Deal with it.

#245: You will realize that the incredibly witty comment you just posted is actually stupid/wrong/in bad taste immediately after pressing “submit reply”

#245a: This is most likely to occur on a board that does not allow editing of one’s posts.