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One helps you stay busy, while the other lets you actually get some work done. After escaping the cube farms I've been looking at how other people (mostly writers) create effective work spaces. Here's what I've found so far:
1. The writer's Grotto, in particular, Po Bronson's Writing Closet:
2. Malcom Gladwell's work space while writing Blink.
3. Michael Crichton's preferences:
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: Small room. Shades down. No daylight. No disturbances. Macintosh with a big screen. Plenty of coffee. Quiet.
4. Any other suggestions?
My personal favorite so far has been Alliance Bakery in Chicago.
After browsing thru this huge collection of street art from Banksy on Flickr I decided to use my barely functional (but growing) photoshop skills to create my own piece of "urban street desktop art".
I give you: Banksy's Balloon.
Related links:
Banksy's main site
Stealing gallery space
In continuing the tradition of "A media experiment", here's the full text of "A Race to the Top" by Thomas Friedman. Quick excerpt:
The fact that a top German politician has resorted to attacking capitalism to win votes tells you just how explosive the next decade in Western Europe could be, as some of these aging, inflexible economies - which have grown used to six-week vacations and unemployment insurance that is almost as good as having a job - become more intimately integrated with Eastern Europe, India and China in a flattening world.
...Yes, this is a bad time for France and friends to lose their appetite for hard work - just when India, China and Poland are rediscovering theirs.
1. Movies.xls or NameThatFilm.xls
2. Questioning the Long Tail
3. Marquette name debate
4. Business Model of a Blogger
5. Klosterman's "The (other) paradox of choice
I also write a travelog called Whereami and have a photo collection in Flickr.
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