This document describes remedial modifications which I have come to depend on to make the WIMP environment more useful and bearable (though some of the things described here remain useful in the absence of a GUI).

Siri’s opportunity here to win the hearts and minds of users is to change the rules of the game from relatively rigid, linear and largely decontextualized CLI search towards a much more humane approach where the user declares his intent but doesn’t have to tell Siri how do it every step of the way.

A library of recommended literary fiction from around the world….