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[queenlua]

My hobby: going through all the things I've tagged as "marked to read" on Pinboard (there is a fuckton of them, oops). Some of the better things:

• Did Antidepressants Depress Japan? Interesting (though older, 2004) NYT bit touching on cultural issues, the (pretty sketch) pharmaceutical industry, and all that jazz


• McAfee on How to Uninstall McAfee Antivirus. Lulziness. See also his flight from South America due to murder charges, and basically any recent interview with him if you want to see the epitome of the modern eccentric millionare


• The Lost Art of Final Fantasy IX. High-res scene renders that didn't make it into my favorite Final Fantasy <3


• I Was a College Newspaper Advisor. Interesting (and sad) look into one school's journalism department


• Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator. Making fun of Thomas Friedman is kind of too easy but it's also great so


• The Wolf Man. THIS BITCH BE CRAZY (but the photos are pretty neat)


• The Internal Memo that Allowed IBM's Female Employees to Get Married. lolhistory


• Ho There Jim Lad: Ferretbrain piece offering a relatively fresh perspective on the effect of filesharing/piracy on the music industry: "When they closed down the pits in the 1980s we were told that it was just the nature of progress. When a changing global economy puts thousands of ordinary working men and women on the poverty line, we're told to suck it up and accept the harsh realities of the free market. But when it makes exciting, sexy people make less money at their cool high-profile jobs, suddenly it's a tremendous injustice. If factories get closed because people have stopped buying cars – sorry, just the cost of doing business. If record labels make less money because people stop buying albums – oh my God the world is ending."


• The Cult of Bayes' Theorem. While I find Less Wrong to be very very occasionally interesting/amusing place, for the most part I think they're kind of batty and this guy states my feelings rather well :P Though, speaking of Bayes, Bayesian Inference with Tears is (a) how Bayes's theorem is properly used, and (b) hilarious to boot. Also the writer's homepage is one of the more amusing academic homepages I've ever seen.