Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

#510 MS Office Tip -- To get a hard copy of your Word document in your printer tray in a correctly-ordered stack, from Word’s Print dialog, hit the Options button and check the “Reverse print order” box. Now the first page will be on the top instead of on the bottom. HT: Lifehacker.com)

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#511 Firefox Extension -- Tech.Life.Blogged has a handy Firefox extension that adds Google Calendar to Gmail.

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#512 XP Tool -- Freeware program Visual Task Tips displays thumbnail images of your taskbar windows when you hover your mouse over the taskbar button.

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#513 Know Your Fallacies -- biased sample -- a sample that is falsely taken to be typical of a population from which it is drawn. (Example: "I wouldn't like to go to America because of all the gun crime, we see it on the news all the time.")

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#514 Google School -- Google has created Google Notebook, an online "notebook" where you can organize all your research, add personal notes to it, and share it with others. Google Notebook surfs along with you as you browse, letting you clip and annotate whatever text, images, and links that help answer your question, all without ever leaving the webpage you're on. (HT: Google Blog)

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