This is what I was talking about with CRM. Tim's got it wrong about Ruby and Perl, though. Use CRM for the datamining, and you can do this in an afternoon in Perl as well.

Making recommendations based on "people like you" isn't anything new. Think radio stations. I've recently made comments about talk radio hosts, and that's because I live in a place where "people like me" are apparently rare. Paige can tell you if that's a good thing or a ban thing. Good lettuce is rare around here, too. ...

Unfortunately, it means that I end up listening to various talk radio shows (off of two major stations, one that's conservative, and the local NPR affiliate out of Chapel Hill). The conservative station is where I get my recipes.

Today I finally found a music station I liked, but the reception was bad everywhere I tried listening to it. Apparently I'm on the very edges of its territory (or maybe its because my car's antenna is missing). Aargh. Where are the other people like me?