Now on the verge of the new millennium, "Murphy's Law" is back to pay homage to a whole new world of things that can go wrong--from cable TV to the "Year 2000 Problem"--in a whole new collection of hilarious and undeniable rules, axioms, conundrums, and corollaries. Illustrations.

Murphy's Law strikes again! From malpractice to measles, Bloch muses on on the fact that anything that can go wrong in the medical world will.

Learn about Murphy's Law with iMinds insightful knowledge series. Murphy's Law is a tongue-in-cheek and rather pessimistic adage of eight simple words: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The translation of these words into "Murphy's Law" was in honour of US aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy Junior. Legend has it that in 1949 Murphy made an offhand comment to his colleagues while working at an Air Force Base in California. His team was testing human tolerance for g-forces during rapid deceleration. The experiments involved Air Force officer John Stapp being strapped into a sled moving at great speed. As the sled decelerated, an instrument was supposed to take readings of the g-forces Stapp experienced. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

A special anniversary edition of the classic pessimist's guide to life shares a collection of pithy revelations and insights that range from "The less you do, the less can go wrong" to "Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens" to "No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would." Original.