B-Cubed recently posted about an Amazon screw-up with their recommendation engine where they failed to disambiguate the author Alan Cooper (of Cooper Design) with Alan Cooper who apparently writes about the history of war. Thus if you bought About Face you should buy Bravery Awards for Aerial Combat. Design is hell people. Apparently this recommendation engine affliction is both contagious and mutating.

Google suggests hamsters for your distributed processing Today I was doing some research and was poking around on the term “Hmaster” along with some other terms that I won’t mention for IP reasons. Anyhow Google suggested that I was likely really looking for “Hamster”. Ah no but it made me laugh anyhow. Especially at the thought that Google was recommending hamsters for my distributed processing. Hmmmn maybe they’re on to something.

PS before anyone comments, yeah I know more people search for “hamster” then “hmaster”. Or more correctly people change their “hmaster” search to “hamster”.