If you haven't already watched Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, it's a good movie. It's also the source for the name of a tool I'm in love with, but can't find a use for, the CRM 114 Discriminator.

OK, I know it's a great tool for spam filtering. I may use it for classifying email at some time. However, I know there's a lot of power in there, and I want a use for it. Something like a cross between Slashdot and Amazon's recommendations system. That's what I thought Reddit was, but Reddit just goes with popularity, not "popularity among people who vote like you," which is what I'm thinking about.

But for that to work, I'd need a lot of readers. Not just a lot of readers, but a lot of diverse groups of readers. That is, enough readers that people who like Hemmingway don't get lumped into a general "readers" category with people who like Tad Williams (and Tad's prolific, so his group should probably be broken down into "Tailchaser's fans," "Memory Sorrow and Thorn fans," etc.). And "programmers" should be broken up in "Ruby fans," "Perl fans," "Java fans," "C++ fans," "CRM 114 fans," etc.

Oh, and I'd need a place to put all that information. And, while I'm at it, I'd like a pony.

Unless somebody else can think of a use for the CRM Discriminator.