links for 2006-11-07
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fascinating ranking of corruption perception index by country; reinforces link between poverty and corruption.
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Now, this may seem strange from someone who writes about pretty dresses (mostly) every day, but: You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
I’m not saying that you SHOULDN’T be pretty if you want to. (You don’t owe UN-prettiness to feminism, in other words.) Pretty is pleasant, and fun, and satisfying, and makes people smile, often even at you. But in the hierarchy of importance, pretty stands several rungs down from happy, is way below healthy, and if done as a penance, or an obligation, can be so far away from independent that you may have to squint really hard to see it in the haze.
– by Erin McKean, lexicographer and friend of the dress.
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A mondegreen (also sometimes spelled “mondagreen”) is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase in such a way that it acquires a new meaning.
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more fun with language; wonderful danish words/concepts
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Was looking for this week’s instance where Steve Irwin halloween costumes were declared lowbrow+despicable and discovered we can play along and vote online too. neat! fun.
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