Comments on: Amazon recommends http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 06:52:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mark Murphy http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/comment-page-1/#comment-258137 Mark Murphy Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:17:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=8436#comment-258137 It's rather simpler: surely Huckabee forms part of the overlapping consensus too. It’s rather simpler: surely Huckabee forms part of the overlapping consensus too.

]]> By: Ben Saunders http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/comment-page-1/#comment-258135 Ben Saunders Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:09:57 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=8436#comment-258135 I once received an Amazon email to the effect of 'customers who bought books also bought GCSE revision guides'. I once received an Amazon email to the effect of ‘customers who bought books also bought GCSE revision guides’.

]]> By: Bill Gardner http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/comment-page-1/#comment-258127 Bill Gardner Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:45:38 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=8436#comment-258127 It means that the Amazon recommendation engine has become sentient. And then, naturally, reached for a bong... It means that the Amazon recommendation engine has become sentient. And then, naturally, reached for a bong…

]]> By: Danny Shahar http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/comment-page-1/#comment-258101 Danny Shahar Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:55:29 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=8436#comment-258101 But...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPbbcPT4-U" rel="nofollow">he majored in miracles!</a> But…he majored in miracles!

]]> By: will u. http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/comment-page-1/#comment-258100 will u. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:40:40 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=8436#comment-258100 Surely to be followed by a recommendation of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" Surely to be followed by a recommendation of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”

]]> By: Michael Drake http://crookedtimber.org/2008/11/07/amazon-recommends/comment-page-1/#comment-258095 Michael Drake Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:45:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=8436#comment-258095 Remind me a little of <a href="http://metaandmeta.typepad.com/metaandmeta/2006/12/keen_prediction.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> recommendation I got from iTunes:<blockquote>You own Schoenberg: <i>Verklaerte Nacht</i>. <b>We recommend</b>: <b>Under the Iron Sea</b> Keane </blockquote> Remind me a little of this recommendation I got from iTunes:
You own Schoenberg: Verklaerte Nacht.
We recommend:
Under the Iron Sea
Keane

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