From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V8 #244 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Sunday, October 26 2003 Volume 08 : Number 244 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fun with Amazon's New Search Engine [Brian K Tanaka ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:30:12 -0700 From: Brian K Tanaka Subject: Fun with Amazon's New Search Engine So, Amazon has a new search engine feature that allows you to search not only titles of books, but the actual contents of the books themselves. Pretty cool, eh? Naturally, the fun choice for a test is "tori amos". Some of the results are as expected: music and sound engineering books, books like "Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman's Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess" and "The Girls' Book of Wisdom: Empowering, Inspirational Quotes from over 400 Fabulous Females", and so on. But some are... well, odd. Here's some of the more surprising books that had references to Tori somewhere in them: Intermediate Accounting Accounting Principles, with CD, 6th Edition (different author too!) Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Bible Castration: An Abbreviated History of Manhood Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray Excel 97 Programming for Windows For Dummies Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Las Vegas (author refers to her as a "hot gal") VoiceXML: Professional Developer's Guide with CDROM And so on. You get the idea. In closing, here's the excerpt from page 300 of "Advanced Accounting Practices, Theory and Application": ". . . bed and I'm drugged out and turned on and a Tori Amos CD plays softly in the background and then I'm lying . . ." Oh. Wait a minute. No. That's from page 300 of "Glamorama". (Really.) - -- - - Brian Tanaka - ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V8 #244 *************************************