Tag Archives: me

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.
Tea-Hee.gif

Some things are best decided outwith the minds of machines.

Alas TOTP

Yes, Top Of The Pops is no more. It’s kinda sad but no-one’s watched it for about a decade anyway.
Sadly missing from last night’s main tribute (I didn’t watch the two clip shows but by all accounts there were pretty dire) was the appearance of nutty’s favourites Bis before they’d even been signed. Thanks to the internet and Bis themselves uploading it you can see it below.

How long until the BBC start just plonking stuff on YouTube or something similar officially?
After all, it’s where all the cool kids are.
Quick pop quiz – who on earth are the boy band shower of idiots presenting?