Link Loving 25.02.11

• Where the word OK comes from. BBC.
• So you think the internet is still free? Terrifying.
• Are animals people? Great article on bestowing personhood onto animals to avoid cruelty. Similar to idea on intergenerational equity. (h/t Jules)
• Amy Mount challenges the power of the status quo.
• Women of the revolution – wonderful profiles of the women involved in the freedom protests in Egypt. Al Jazeera.
• Almost 100,000 people gave up looking for work during the last three months of 2010. ippr.
• Kayte Lawton reveals that most benefit over-payments are errors, not fraudulent claims. Ah, the power of evidence.
• Jonathan Clifton asks what’s left of the Big Society and how is the left reacting?