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  1. “Good-looking people and tall people get a “beauty premium” — an extra 5 percent an hour — while there is a “plainness penalty” of 9 percent in wages.”

    Would explain my own pathetic compensation package.
    (yes, I said package)

  2. Somewhat dated release from the Federal Reserve Bank:

    Excerpt from Maureen Dowd’s comments on the case of the poor gorgeous woman told to tone down her “sexiness” by Citibank.

    A 2005 analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis confirmed what seems apparent, from presidential races to executive boardrooms: Good-looking people and tall people get a “beauty premium” — an extra 5 percent an hour — while there is a “plainness penalty” of 9 percent in wages.

  3. Last night I went to a meeting about resdeisgning the website for my nonprofit. It was with the kind of people who write a list of things on a piece of paper, then hold up the paper and say things like, “OK, for now we’ll keep this analog, and we’ll get a three-ring binder and use it as our database.”

    Creative professionals have a lingo all their own. However it was a rather fun meeting as brainstorming creatively about words to use is fun.

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