Some fresh bookmarks from delicious.com:

• Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science – Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice?
• XKCD: Tech Support – A dream shared by every reasonably tech-savvy person who's ever called tech support.
• The genius of Dick Francis was to give readers a racing certainty – "I once wrote a review of a Dick Francis thriller without reading it. I wasn’t going to waste a new Dick Francis on a bloody review when I had a transatlantic flight coming up, was I? So I wrote a piece saying that I knew the book was going to be good. I trusted it, and that’s why I was saving it for later."
• Difference Between “Real” Writers And “Wannabe” Writers – The difference between doing something because your ego / self-image wants it, and doing it because it is your natural inclination, because you cannot NOT do it.