A Venn diagram for making career-related decisions.

This is the best thing ever.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is eligible to vote. The television show, that is. Man, I may have to consider a rewatch...

If anyone hasn't done their US taxes yet, here's a guide on the best software to use.

Well, this looks interesting. A pacifist fantasy; rather ( Read more... )

Long reads: Online dating in the London Review of Books.

The New Yorker tells the story of a massive antiquities-theft ring in India.

By way of Bookslut: a new novel about plagiarism in classical recordings, inspired by the true story of Joyce Hatto.

Did we know that Charles Dickens was kind of a dick to his kids?

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Oh, for FSM's sake, when ( Read more... )

... I don't know anyone else who is capable of losing weight over Thanksgiving weekend. (And no, not intentionally.) ::sigh:: (The icon is definitely indicative of my mental state, I'm just saying.)

Anyway, on to the links!

Aaron Bady provides the critical look at Lincoln we've all been waiting for.Apparently Oliver Stone made a documentary ( Read more... )

"Rugby is dangerous enough when you don't have a broom stuck between your legs," said Birgir, and we nodded in agreement. The story of the Outside Magazine Partially Icelandic Quidditch World Cup team.

Noted for later reading: re-introducing moral philosophy into conversations about market forces.

Also noted: the surge in get-rich-quick scams ( Read more... )

Here's a couple of excellent reads on the Greg Mortensen scandal: Savage Minds, 3 Cups of Orientalism, and Zunguzungu has a really great roundup of reactions.

Scientific American on grantsmanship and basic science, and the inefficiencies thereof.

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This is the sort of story that makes me understand why some parents won't let their kids get on ( Read more... )

Nate Silver over at 538 crunches the numbers on the Senate's health-care bill. If he's right, well. Me, I got nothin'.

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Women & Hollywood has an Open Letter to Hollywood film studios by one of the 51 percent of the audience. The “Buddy Movie” (now recoined as the “Bromance” or “A Judd Apatow”). We, the 51 percent of your audience, have only ( Read more... )