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if you like recomendations…

Then you might like Librarything‘s features The Suggester and far better(er) The Unsuggester.

As you can imagine taking actual (publicly declared admittedly) collections of books and analysing similarity throws up some things you’d expect. So for example Blankets by Craig Thompson leads to an ordered list starting with his other works before widening out to Persepolis, Jimmy Corrigan, Watchmen, Box Office Poison and Bone. The unsuggester reveals a scary list of John Grisham, Robert Ludlum and Patricia Cornwell. Does this mean graphic novel fans hate series crime/thriller novels and vice-versa? Nothing shocking really.

Of course, Amazon have been doing this for years. I felt a little tickled that they saw fit to highlight that I might want to pre-order a Teasmade, or indeed a fan should I need to keep cool in the shocking November heat. I do love just how classic the teasmade styling is.
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Some things are best decided outwith the minds of machines.

hey, where'd the site go?

I’ve decided that as good as my old nuttyxander.com look was there’s no merit to my site other than the blog for updated content at the moment. Most of my real content that would have come here is currently elsewhere until leveraged back in by funky programming using APIs and the like to crowbar it in. Therefore my photography is over at flickr but will someday soon make it to nuttyphoto.com in another form.

Otherwise, it’s time to go off and enjoy the sunshine, it’s rather hot but having aclimatised to the summer I’m not minding this little heatwave, it reminds me a lot of holidays spent in the French heat at this time of year. So it’s not hot until it reaches 34 degrees, by which time I should have headed far up north.

Life On Mars


As good as the reborn Doctor Who has been (and it’s been rather good lately) it’s Life On Mars that has stolen my televisual heart most recently. It may have only had eight episodes but the DVD comes out next week and some random surfing has brought me to this gem of a site which has scripts complete with a colour key to show just what kinds of unreality are going on.