{"id":4662,"date":"2006-12-18T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4662"},"modified":"2006-12-18T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T11:15:19","slug":"hotw-the-unsuggester-proves-why-ill-never-read-eragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/hotw-the-unsuggester-proves-why-ill-never-read-eragon\/","title":{"rendered":"HOTW: The Unsuggester Proves Why I’ll Never Read Eragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Hero of the Week comes early cause I plan on being the hell away from the internet for a good week and a half. HERO OF THE WEEK unofficially began with Danny DeVito’s The View tirade<\/a>. I made the decision to do HOTW every week but finals made me forget my head.<\/p>\n

As long as I remember the commitment, HOTW will be: 1)weekly 2)around Friday or so and 3) possibly in the Groonkly Bits<\/a> section. Thereby forcing me to put words, even the stupidest of words, to digital paper at least once a week.<\/p>\n

The Library Thing<\/a> has a new feature called The Unsuggester<\/a> which works as follows.<\/p>\n

Unsuggester takes “people who like this also like that” and turns it on its head<\/strong>. It analyzes the eight million books LibraryThing members have recorded as owned or read, and comes back with books least likely<\/strong> to share a library with the book you suggest<\/a>. The unsuggestions come from LibraryThing data, not from Amazon<\/strong>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I ran my latest pet peeve Eragon<\/u> through The Unsuggester and it verified many suspicions. Some author names that came up: Fyodor Dostoevsky, C. G. Jung,Hunter S. Thompson, Sigmund Freud, William Faulkner, Aristotle, and Ian Fleming to name a few. According to The Unsuggester, Eragon<\/u> is the antithesis<\/a> of any kind of intelligent thought. Sure, that’s a bold statement, but that’s my new creedo, “Bold and an opinionated prick.”<\/p>\n

As most outspoken writers tend to be.<\/p>\n

(via neil gaiman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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