In which I appear in the Telegraph, sort of
The Telegraph recently featured a list of top 10 Internet "laws", starting of course with Godwin's Law.
Sure enough, there at #4 is Skitt's Law, a.k.a. Muphry's Law (sic), a.k.a. McKean's Law, a.k.a. Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation.
Yay! I'm very slightly partially Internet famous for having independently coined a saying not too many years after the first recorded time that someone else said the same thing!
(And, most likely, for having come up with a catchy name for it. I suspect if I had just called it Hartman's Law, the Internet-famous linguists who've referred to it would've gone with McKean's Law, since she's much better-known than I am. Then again, it appears to have been Vardibidian who told the linguists about my version in 2005, so maybe if I had hired a publicist back in '99, I would've won the naming war.)
(As for the Telegraph article, my other favorite law in their list is Pommer's Law: "A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be: From having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.")
