You might also like i3. I tried many tiling window managers, and i3 is my favorite. Its "manual tiling" works well with my brain.

Also see this comparison of tiling WMs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_Tiling_Wi...

Thank you very much for your suggestion. I will try i3 in a few days -- once I know what ratpoison's and StumpWM's annoyances and strengths are.

Update: I lied. i3 looked too good to wait for so I tried it, and it feels a lot more natural. I'm quite certain this will be it!

The Internet is the web, and the web is Google. That's how it is for the vast majority of nontechnical users. It's a sad state of affairs.

Hiding the URL is a natural step on the way to total TV-fication of the web.

People search for "facebook" on Google in order to log on to Facebook because it works, and they are not interested in learning a more efficient way, because they are not interested in learning anything, they want to go to Facebook.

URLs look like math formulas, and who cares about that except some geeks? Math is hard, let's go shopping.

This is nice. Some years ago, I used a site called "bestbookdeal" that did pretty much the same thing.

One improvement that I would very much like to see is the ability to search for a set of books at once.

Book Depository used to have, for some books, much better deals than Amazon. Then it got bought by Amazon, and prices are pretty much equivalent now.

I remember I bought a book probably one or two years ago and it was available on Amazon (but it was sold by BD behind) and directly by BD and BD was cheaper.

Do you mean that when average users use a web site, they intend to be tracked?

The setting has to be either on or off by default. I think that most users, if asked, would like for it to be off. The only reason to leave it to "on" involves advertising doublethink, a.k.a. bullshit.

The reason to be off by default is that you needed the advertisers and publishers to voluntarily agree to honor the DNT flag. They can signficantlly make more money by targeting users based on tracking data (a targeted ad might be worth 10X a non targeted ad). Now you might not like that but, DNT is not a law, following it is completely 100% optional. You could probably even lie and say you follow when you really don't and there is little that could be done (I'm not a lawyer btw).

The advertisers agreed that as long as the flag had to be set manually by the user the would honor it. They made that agreement because it would not impact their revenue significantly. It would be very presumptuous to expect them to voluntarily destroy their own business. Because DNT is optional you need the advertisers and publishers to agree about it. So by making DNT on by default in IE advertisers walked away from the agreement and their is nothing we could do to stop them effectively killing DNT.

Now you mention most users don't want to be tracked, but what are they getting in exchange for being tracked? If you asked the average user would you allow your self to be tracked online to use Facebook I be most would say yes. How about you allow yourself to be tracked on line for 1 free latte at Starbucks/month? Again I think most would say yes.