lj interest-suggesting meme

(okay, am I the only one who can't use the web interface to post today due to javascript errors?)

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in ( these twenty interests )

Very interesting, no pun intended.

I trimmed down my original interests-list (created elsewhere, rather than for this journal) because:

• 100-item flat lists are less interesting to me than shorter, more concise and thoughtful lists
  
• when I was assembling this list on friendster I hit their character limit long before I was done, so I had to triage very carefully
  
• I thought that there was a really interesting happy medium somewhere between the 28 I fit on my friendster profile, which felt like not enough, and the 100 I ended up with when I let myself spew out whatever sounded interesting, which really felt like too many.
  
• I felt there should be *some* distinction between "interests" and "stuff I like", though I'm not sure I can explain what that difference might be.
  

I stopped cutting at 64 because I thought it was a pleasantly round number and triaging was getting more difficult. Some of the ones I trimmed are up there on that suggested-list: wine, sex, writing, purple, silk, genderfuck. And some never crossed my mind to list as an interest: london, buffy the vampire slayer (despite that I'm slowly slogging my way through the series), neil gaiman (like his work; not enough of a fan for it to be an 'interest'), dogs (not a dog person. allergic, in fact).

Aren't patterns that emerge from large datasets fascinating?

What about you? Do you differentiate between "interests" and "stuff I like"? Is your lj-interests-list more the former or the latter?