Re: OT: amazon recommends:
From: Cimode <cimode_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
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On 17 mar, 18:03, Marshall <marshall.spi..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I buy stuff on Amazon. You know the way Amazon
> sees what you buy and makes recommendations?
> Sometimes you get these odd juxtapositions.
> Like just now for example. Amazon recommended
> that I buy "Model Driven Architecture with UML"
> and immediately adjacent to that, it recommended
> that I buy a waterproof mattress pad. I guess the
> presumption is that I'm going to wet the bed after
> reading it. It makes a certain strange kind of sense.
I don't know if we should laugh or cry about that...
> Marshall
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