December 2010
10 posts
“Tu quoque : Literally, you too. This is an attempt to justify wrong action...”
– Top 20 Logical Fallacies (via mappeal)
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“Courage is from the latin word ‘cor’ meaning heart and the original definition...”
– Brene Brown (from TED talk “The Power of Vulnerability”)  This is a great quote and everyone should watch the linked video in its entirety.  It’s very, very good. (via misterpeace)
Dec 28th
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Lethologica.
tiffanyhoran: -noun The inability to recall the correct word.
Dec 26th
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the patriarchy phrasebook →
feministslut: humorlessfeminist: Patriarchy: ‘He loved women’ Translation: ‘He fucked a lot of women’ Patriarchy: ‘You’re a feminazi/ bitch/ dyke/ delusional woman/ whore/ desperate for a fuck’ Translation: ‘I am threatened by your argument and am scared of you and it’ Patriarchy: ‘Smile, love!’ Translation: ‘Why are you not deferential to my masculinity?’ Patriarchy: ‘I’m not being...
Dec 20th
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sprezzatura
wordjournal: noun • studied nonchalance. From Italian, coined in The Book of the Courtier (1528), which describes it as “a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.”
Dec 8th
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cunt →
“Derived from a Germanic word, its original usage was not so much expletive as factual – an early example appears in the Proverbs of Hendyng manuscript, pre-1325, roughly translating as “Give your cunt wisely and make [your] demands after the wedding.” A certain level of offence has been acquired since then – the Merriam Webster dictionary defines the word as “a...
Dec 7th
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Venus Effect →
bestofwikipedia: The Venus effect is a phenomenon in the psychology of perception, named after various paintings of Venus gazing into a mirror. Viewers of such paintings assume that Venus is admiring her own reflection in the mirror. However, since the viewer sees her face in the mirror, Venus is actually looking at the reflection of the viewer.
Dec 7th
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Dec 4th
Quodlibet
My favourite new word that I learnt this week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quodlibet It’s basically the historical word for a musical mash up.
Dec 2nd