Amazon recommends c/d

1. Dog on Wheels [SINGLE] - Belle & Sebastian
2. 3-6-9 Seconds of Light Ep [SINGLE] - Belle & Sebastian
3. Tigermilk - Belle & Sebastian
4. This Is Just a Modern Rock Song [SINGLE] - Belle & Sebastian
5. Fever - Kylie Minogue
6. Y'All Get Scared Now Ya Hear - Reindeer Section
7. All Is Dream [LIMITED EDITION] - Mercury Rev
8. The Peel Sessions - Kenickie
9. The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane And Other Favorites - Jeffrey Lewis
10. Glee - Bran Van 3000
11. We Need a Resolution [SINGLE]- Aaliyah
12. To Bring You My Love - P.J. Harvey
13. Let It Live [SINGLE] - Haven
14. The Golden Age - Bobby Conn
15. The Joy of Sing-Sing - Sing-Sing

I've spent hours trying to budge that B+S.

I think it notes only the last couple of purchases I ever did for me. Which is why I get recommendations for the Cult and Asterix.

amazon however, oh I can do without their lists, they turn up on every damn search i make anyway. I'll stick to the second hand stores thanks..

1. Dr. Strangelove (own it)
2. Amelie (I should see this)
3. Band of Outsiders (own it)
4. Three Colors Trilogy (looks good)
5. Citizen Kane (loved it)
6. Blade Runner (I remember not liking this when I was 12 or 13, probably bumped up because of my Philip K. Dick purchases)
7. Metropolis (great)
8. Solaris - Criterion Collection (I'm torn)
9. Full Metal Jacket (own it)
10. The Killers - Criterion (another I'm on the fence for)

So the DVD recommendations are classic, or close to it.

CDs:
1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (feh)
2. Mr. Life - Emergency Rations (hmmm...)
3. Sigur Ros - () (double-feh)
4. Ryan Adams - Demolition (feh)
5. New Pornographers - Electric Version (own it, not as great as Mass Romantic)
6. Whiskeytown - Strangers' Almanac (own it)
7. Binary Star - Masters of the Universe (what the fuck?)
8. Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design (who?)
9. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (somewhere between hmm and feh, I don't think I smoke enough pot)
10. Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib (just 'cuz I ordered three Pavement CDs...)

I'm gonna go with Dudsville here, especially since this is followed by a bunch of Coldplay/Travis/Britpop-clones.

The books are all terrible, because I haven't entered enough to get past "oh, you own one Irvine Welsh/Alan Warner/Tim O'Brien novel, here's all of them."

That's what I hate. Plus, there's a tendency to recommend every edition of a book you already own. That's just irritating.

Recommended for you

The Likely Lads [1976] DVD ~ Rodney Bewes
American Surfaces Hardcover by Stephen Shore
The Name of the Rose (Vintage Classics) [New Ed] Paperback by Umberto Eco

76:14 ~ Global Communication
The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala Dragon Editions) by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)~ Woody Shaw
One for All ~ Brand Nubian

these are not bad recommendations I don't think

I buy a lot of presents on Amazon so the recommendations are pretty crap for me.

Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)~ Woody Shaw

i presume this the pharoah sanders record that shaw plays on. i recommend it too!

Kings of Crunk Audio CD ~ Lil Jon & Eastside Boyz
(Why is this recommended for you?)

So So Def Bass All-Stars Audio CD ~ Various Artists
(Why is this recommended for you?)

The Biggest Reggae One-Drop Anthems 2006 Audio CD ~ Various Artists
(Why is this recommended for you?)

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Unless it shows Hef falling off of a TV set, I ain't interested.

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lazy algorithms imho

Mortal Kombat (PS3) Recommended because you purchased Battlefield 3 - Limited Edition (PC DVD)

Not even the same system or genre. And it's pretty much recommended every single game in the known universe because I've purchased BF3

It recommended me Caitlin Moran's book the other day, which was the most insulted I've ever been by a faulty marketing programme.

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Amazon only recommends me stuff I already own or already know i do not like.

Half the time it just recommends me other editions of books I already bought, or else Cliffs Notes to same

should have (maybe does have?) settings that let you block recommendations for eg blu-ray as opposed to dvd, or only to get kindle recommendations from books.

maybe these setting exist i dunno

Am I the only one who compulsively dicks with the "Betterizer" during downtime at work?

http://www.amazon.com/RCA-RP3504-Cassette-Shoebox-Recorder/dp/B004SNL9ZK/ref=pd_sim_e_5

look at the innapropriate stock footage of people usin g current technology

http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/i-walk-the-line/

Head has a new book out now, Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Humans Dumber. You may have seen an excerpt from it about Amazon in Salon last month. I’ve read the whole thing now, and I can tell you it’s almost certainly going to be the most important book I’ll read all year. In essence, it is an update on Head’s earlier work on Walmart. Rather than just use the computer to dictate when your employer needs you to work, technology is now powerful enough for management to use it to dictate exactly how workers do their jobs. For example, here’s a bit from that excerpt about what Amazon warehouse workers do all day:

Amazon’s system of employee monitoring is the most oppressive I have ever come across and combines state-of-the-art surveillance technology with the system of “functional foreman,” introduced by Taylor in the workshops of the Pennsylvania machine-tool industry in the 1890s. In a fine piece of investigative reporting for the London Financial Times, economics correspondent Sarah O’Connor describes how, at Amazon’s center at Rugeley, England, Amazon tags its employees with personal sat-nav (satellite navigation) computers that tell them the route they must travel to shelve consignments of goods, but also set target times for their warehouse journeys and then measure whether targets are met.

All this information is available to management in real time, and if an employee is behind schedule she will receive a text message pointing this out and telling her to reach her targets or suffer the consequences. At Amazon’s depot in Allentown, Pennsylvania (of which more later), Kate Salasky worked shifts of up to eleven hours a day, mostly spent walking the length and breadth of the warehouse. In March 2011 she received a warning message from her manager, saying that she had been found unproductive during several minutes of her shift, and she was eventually fired. This employee tagging is now in operation at Amazon centers worldwide.

...she had been found unproductive during several minutes of her shift, and she was eventually fired

NO job on earth is worth that kind of harassment. It is better to starve slowly in a fetal position than live like that for more than a couple of days.

(Aimless adds Amazon to his list of companies to boycott forever.)

http://media.salon.com/2013/02/url.jpeg

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor

here's another one, apparently the reporter did a radiolab episode recently too, if you're that kind of nerd

god just reading about this makes me jittery