I ordered some soyrizo (soy-based chorizo substitute) last week. This week, the grocery store AI's recommendation engine is of two minds about my food preferences: very meaty or very vegan. ...
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I have signed up at The Storygraph Beta, which recommends books. Nowadays, it's strange nowadays to find a recommendation system that isn't part of some online merchant. Anyhow, most folks on there l...
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Another Silicon Valley Comic
Today I picked up a physical copy of Terms of Service, a non-fiction comic about how we decide to expose our private information to each other and/or to conglomerates. But I could have read it online...
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Buying tracks to construct a music puzzle. Don't even want to think about what my Amazon recommendations will look like after this. ...
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Book Report: Positively Fifth Street
I liked Word Freak, a book about a reporter who studies up and becomes a champion Scrabble player. And I told some automated recommendation services that I liked it. Thus, those automated recommendat...
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Joined goodreads
I joined goodreads, yet another site that recommends books to read based upon books that you liked. It's been around for a while, but I didn't join. Amazon.com's recommendations were fine! But then A...
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San Francisco Restaurant Recommendations
This morning, instead of doing what I meant to do, I bumped into Google Hotpot and rated a bunch of places (mostly restaurants in San Francisco). It's a "social" service, so in theory I can share re...
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Book Report: Amazonia
Memoirs by some guy who was employee #55 at Amazon.com. He was an in-house editor. Amazon wanted to have some folks on staff who could write up book reviews. This was before they let any bozo with...
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Book Report: I Wish there was Something that I Could Quit
It's a novel by Aaron Cometbus! I hadn't heard it had been published until I entered a bunch of book ratings into Amazon.com. Amazon.com's recommendation engine recommended the book. Three cheers ...
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Link: Bookarmy
Bookarmy is a book rating website. Yes, I keep trying book rating websites. I keep hoping they'll turn into book recommendation sites. Bookarmy is a book recommendation website! Or, uhm, maybe. H...
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Link: Musicbrainz
I haven't posted a new J-ska review in ages. Did they do any good? I don't know. I got angry emails from folks who wanted to make sure that I should really give the band Mongol 800 another chance;...
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Book Report: Cold Mountain
This is a great book, an odyssey set during the USA's Civil War. It's a bleak study of the horrors of war. It's a story about humans and beasts. You've probably already heard about it. After I rea...
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