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They are included because they were the reason people gave when asked why "The Silmarillion" was so unreadable.

(I'm the author)

Yes--maybe I am thinking out 'too loudly' sometimes, but I think it's interesting since that explains how one can come to a conclusion, and maybe if it is wrong, it can be corrected as you know how the conclusion was reached. It's like you can "debug" a thought process, in a way, as you have a "trace" :-)

And thanks for all the suggestions! I've made a note of them all. Good to hear from people who know more about the topic than me.

Author here.

I got them in txt files, online. I own the original books too. I would have typed them in if I had all the time of the world, of course.

You can find the text for pretty much any popular work if you look in the proper places :-)

Hi, author here.

First, it's she, not he.

Second, because I hadn't heard about that obvious test at all back then. I never pretended to do a superserious scientific analysis but rather answer to the questions that came to my mind, by using a computer to validate hypothesis.

But many thanks for the pointers & suggestions, though! I was thinking about rebuilding this to make it realtime+interactive so that more than one text could be analysed/visualised, so I'll make sure to introduce the new tests.

I think you're just talking about the applications in a stock Nexus One, not the operating system itself (i.e. the UI, the services it provides, etc). If the apps are lousy it's one thing, but the system behaves quite predictably more often than not.

And yes, the stock apps could do with a bit improvement, but you can always install another alternative app from the market. That's what it is for, isn't it?

The only idea that comes to mind is auditing advertising companies, but it doesn't seem too likely/feasible to me.

As far as I know, this won't work if the user came from https:// - the referrer will be empty, won't it?

We were taught basic programming with Emacs, connecting to an HP-UX machine. So we really didn't know much Emacs anyway :-)