To me, tabs are a part of my reading workflow - somewhere between bookmarks and speed dial. Tab Candy, if implemented, would be somewhere between bookmarks and normal tabs: permanent storage, but for task-specific purposes.

The reason why I use piles of tabs (50+ per window if necessary) is that I prefer not to do mental task switching between searching for something and looking for a solution/an idea/reading.

So I will do a search on something, open new tabs until I am satisfied that I have opened all the promising links, then close the search and start reading the tabs I have open. I will first glance at the content, and will just close the tabs that don't look like they are worth reading. Then I just read, leave the best tabs open for reference and start doing whatever the search was for (coding, writing etc.).

I currently use different windows to keep separate tab groups for each different task (e.g. email, coding, search for best widget). Whatever I use a lot or whatever I think I should look at again soon gets added to Speed Dial (e.g. Slashdot, interesting articles), and less frequent stuff that I want to keep for reference goes to the bookmarks pile. The only problem is that closing a browser window means I either lose all the stuff I haven't read in that window or I have to bookmark them.

Tab Candy would seem perfect for temporarily storing a window (e.g. reference material for project X) for later without the hassle of bookmark management.

I know it's "just a different kind of bookmark management system" from some perspective, but so is Speed Dial - which I consider essential.

Indeed, looking at the FA links, the most common gripe is the price - with the suggestion that a netbook would be better. It obviously depends on how serious one is about reading, but for me the cost is fine and I would not want a netbook. Netbook screens suck (small, low quality screens in this price range at least), and given that current models still weight a lot I expect that a dedicated reader is much more comfortable to read on.

I want to read books in a variety of places and love lying down on my back to read. Can't imagine that would be very comfortable with a laptop/netbook with all the weight and fans etc. And printing out books sucks, I have given it a try.

As for cost, it will go down and then this will be worth it for more people. I just hope that the DX will be available in Europe as well. I buy about $900-$1000 in books each year, and getting them shipped and stored is both costly and space-consuming; I do it for the convenience of reading a real book and because recent niche non-fiction English titles just aren't available in public libraries in my country.

When Amazon Prime is not an option, shipping tends to be pretty expensive and just getting rid of that would save me money. But the thing that really is exciting is the prospect of reading academic articles without having to deal with paper. Any information on whether the Kindle DX will be available in Europe?

Feel free to start a company and do without "marketdroids" and their "advertising wankery and asskissing" - and see how far you get. The truth is that if these non-technical people did not help companies succeed, then you could do without them and save X amount of money (a significant amount) and would be able to win in the marketplace. However, it would seem that all real companies have to have both technical and non-technical people - both have skills which do contribute to the company's ability to make money.

It's fine to love "Tech / Eng. / CS" and want to kick ass in technical skills, but it is very narrow minded to think that those are the only skills that matter and that contribute anything. You have to be able to sell your product, comply with a bunch of laws, finance product development and make smart moves against competing companies to succeed. I wish it was just about having a better mousetrap, but it aint. (Mod me down if you feel like it, that doesn't change anything.)

Some suggestions on good business books: The Business of Software by Cusumano (general overview of software business), On Competition by Porter (for software product companies), Managing the Professional Services Firm by Maister (for software services companies), Behind Closed Doors (general management) and the Art of Agile Development (for agile organizing).

I think you are judging these countries a bit too harshly. What you call "political whoring" in your later post is most likely true, and things like supporting the human rights violations of US agencies or hassling Russian travellers ought to not happen. But really, what are the options for these countries? They have done pretty well for themselves after regaining independence and clearly want to avoid becoming part of Russia's sphere of influence. And they did it by allying with whomever has the military capabilities to oppose the Russians - currently the US and Nazi Germany during WW2. Estonians volunteering with in the Nazis may seem despicable in retrospect and you even argue that:

but you have to realize that many of those volunteers were not fighting alongside the Nazis was not because they supported the SS ideology. They did it because they needed an ally against Soviet Russia in order to maintain their existence as an independent state, not because they were Nazis. This is part of why the Estonians may celebrate Nazi volunteers - not because they were "better Nazi than Germans" as you said, but because they fought against the Russians (and thus for independence).

Of course this does not mean that we should accept human rights violations from these countries in the present. However, it is unfair to judge these countries from a position of moral supremacy. It is easy to say what one should not do during a time of war when one's own country has the largest army in the world and is separated by the Atlantic from the conflict, but when you are small and geographically neighboring an enourmous country with a history of imperial ambitions, you tend to pick sides.