You know how Amazon keeps track of things you’ve purchased, and can send you emails of the form “if you liked X, then you’re sure to also like our new product Y that just came out”? Apparently there is either A) some kind of weird snag with the recommendation engine, or B) there are vast, secret, and strange connections underlying… Read more →
Day: December 22, 2005
Two things that have cheered me today
1) Meditating on the amusing fact that the judge in the Pennsylvania “intelligent design” case was appointed by Bush. This puts a whole different spin on my notion that the “engage the base” machine would be going after the judge. 2) Reading all the reactions to the decision, summarized so well at The Questionable Authority. “The judge clearly has extrordinarily… Read more →
