Links posted on January 31, 2007
Another maverick texas woman dies. Another funny, political, frank woman. gone. [more inside]
From lunch:
- The word "dope" comes from the Dutch word "doop" meaning sauce or gravy. It has come to mean lots of things from aircraft wing lacquer to drugs and drug users to soft drinks (in the Carolinas, apparently).
- The word egregious (from Latin "rising above the flock") used to mean exceptional in a good sense. OED doesn't know when the meaning did a complete 180 and became remarkably bad.
- Lines from Alanis Morrisette's song Ironic, modified to actually make them ironic
- Wikipedia's List of unusual articles is all but guaranteed to sink upwards of 10 hours of your life.
- Every time wiepooh sees the GEICO Caveman ads he snorts milk out of his nose. Others have simple minds and the ads "frighten and confuse" them. Personally, I'm always a little saddened to hear Röyksopp's song "Remind Me" as the airport music (remix).